postbox
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Royal Mail said residents can use another nearby postbox or hand stamped letters to their postman or woman.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
A knitted postbox topper featuring the infamous phrase "rats the size of cats" has appeared on a street corner in Birmingham amid the city's ongoing bin strikes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Customers procure a barcode from an app, then at the postbox they scan the barcode and drop the parcel into a drawer - this is all powered by solar panels on the box.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
Royal Mail said a postbox may be temporarily closed due to wildlife infestation, and advised customers to use the nearest convenient one.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
Paper and ink, poems and my postbox are medicines that heal the wounds of a fife without freedom.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
More are on the way, hence the black plastic while postboxes are upgraded.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Seven "postboxes of the future" are in place in Northern Ireland, of 3,500 planned across the UK.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Emma Gilthorpe, Royal Mail chief executive, called it an "historic change" to give postboxes "a new lease of life".
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
The solar-powered postboxes will support the increasing numbers of people selling second-hand items, such as clothing, online.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Across the country that day, the ballots for year-end honors in Thoroughbred racing began arriving in journalists’ postboxes.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
