The earliest stamp vending machines were in the reign of George V, I believe, so it could easily be pre-WWII.

Man hosts biggest collection of post boxes in the UK | Newstalk Fionnuala’s guest has been collecting historic post boxes for over 30 years… Despite his coll...

Yesterday Arthur Reeder appeared on Ireland's Newstalk radio to talk about his incredible collection of postboxes!

www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Experience: I’ve spent decades collecting over 260 postboxes It started with an obscure railway postbox that had been thrown in a skip – now my museum has pieces from Scotland, Ireland and Hong Kong

One of our longstanding and dedicated members, Arthur Reeder, shows off his incredible collection and some of his #postbox stories in the Guardian today!

Experience: I’ve spent decades collecting over 260 postboxes www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

📮🍺PUBS AND POSTBOXES

Have you seen a postbox outside a pub recently? They're not uncommon in the countryside, as pubs are a traditional community location.

Sadly this Victorian postbox is now gone, replaced by a modern "tin Lizzie", and the pub is closed. A sign of the times?

#postboxsaturday

Now coming through members' letter boxes! Newsletter 200 aligned perfectly with our 50th anniversary year. Have you got your's yet?

#postbox

📮🏆BRITAIN'S BEST POSTBOX IS... ❓❓

What's your favourite?

PENFOLD - classic Victorian design
HANDYSIDE - grandfather of modern pillar boxes
TYPE G - the square postbox
TYPE K - distinctive and modern

Some photos from LBSG archives, others from LBSG members, used with permission.

#postboxsaturday

Today we helped out a Daily Mail reader with a burning question about Victorian postboxes. If you have a burning postbox question, you don't need to go to the mail! Send us a message here and we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Membership includes:

📰 Our quarterly "Newsletter" - 50+ full-colour pages
👥 LBSG meetings - 1 virtual, 2 in person
🛒 The LBSG shop - dive into the depths of postbox knowledge
📧 The LBSG mailing list - talk to LBSG members across the UK and the world

Photo: LBSG AGM 2025, Shifnal

Membership - Letter Box Study Group If you are interest by what you are reading please consider becoming a member.

📮📅LBSG 2026-27 MEMBERSHIPS

💷RATES - Held at £34 for our 50th Anniversary Year
👶WANT TO JOIN? - up to 3 months free! Your membership stays until renewal on 1 June 2027
📮EXISTING MEMBERS - watch for the renewal notice in June

➡️ lbsg.org/membership ⬅️

Proof that the GPO/Post Office/Royal Mail have always been altering and tinkering with post boxes.

⌛️ 📮FIXED AND CHANGING

Our archive photo reveals features Royal Mail introduced to post boxes:

✉️Stamp Vending Machine
🗓Gold top for Sunday collections
➡Post Office Direction Sign

This Edward VII postbox in London lost all these features but is still in use

#postboxsaturday

BBC Radio Berkshire - Secret Berkshire, Is this Britain's rarest postbox? Eton is home to one of Britain's rarest postboxes. Lorin Bozkurt tells its story.

Is this Britain's rarest postbox?
BBC Berkshire's Lorin Bozkurt met up with LBSG member Robert Cole to find out more www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

🇮🇪 📮 Irish wall boxes (LBSG archives) 📷🕰️

SHARED HERITAGE - Ireland and the UK had the same postboxes until Irish independence
CYPHERS - While some had the British royal cyphers removed, others remained
BOTH NATIONS - this Edward VII wall box also carries the Irish Free State emblem

#postboxsaturday

Aw no! Hopefully one day!

👑📮⏳30 YEARS AGO

EDWARD VIII - reigned less than a year; few postboxes were made in his name
ORIGINAL LOCATION - Installed in Liverpool in 1936
REPAIRED - the fix to the collection plate holder has been there nearly half the box's lifetime!

Have you seen any Edward VIII postboxes?

#postboxsaturday

📮✉️Exciting Post Today!💌🎉

The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social sent us a lovely card to celebrate our 50th Anniversary!

Thank you to all letter writers everywhere for keeping our postboxes alive!

#postboxsaturday

📮🕰️A glimpse into the LBSG archives: this George VI wall box once stood proudly outside Bratton Fleming Post Office. The office closed a year after this 2007 photo - and today, both box and building are gone. A little slice of postal history saved in a snapshot. #postboxsaturday

In the LBSG we do not give out numbers or locations of vulnerable postboxes in order to protect them.

Preserving history one letter box at a time. Inspired by Jean Young Farrugia’s The Letter Box, our group has spent years tracking down old and unusual pillar boxes—like Edward VIIIs—and working with Royal Mail to save them from replacement #postboxsaturday

It wasn't meant to say "This was our first postbox saturday" but that works too! :D

The first LBSG meeting took place in June 1979 in London. Designer Tony Gibbs attended to present his Type K pillar box, which would be appearing on the streets from 1980. Over the decades since we have had many more meetings, and seen many more new postboxes. But this was our first #postboxsaturday

"One Saturday afternoon early in 1976, three men met... each, in their own way, had become interested in the subject of the roadside letter box."

50 years later, their new-founded Letter Box Study Group is still going, protecting and preserving the UK's postbox heritage

#postboxsaturday

Actually, the modern steel lamp and pillar boxes with the Scottish Crown may be in Charles III's reign, but there are few of these.

The Scottish Crown dates are the same as the EIIR cipher dates. This box is 1990s-2014. But probably mid-90s as the later Machan boxes are all dated.

Dec 24: Blists Hill

This living Victorian museum invites its visitors to step back over 125 years to the end of the Victorian era. Sharing traditional crafts, vehicles and food, it also features this slightly less authentic replica Penfold pillar box.

Website: www.ironbridge.org.uk/visit/blists...

Dec 23: Dover Transport Museum

Alongside historic vehicles, a model railway and vintage shop fronts, this museum also features a George V pillar box. The crack in the door shows the sort of damage pillar boxes can take over time.

Website: www.dovertransportmuseum.org.uk

Dec 22: Amberley Museum

This beautiful heritage museum in West Sussex has not one, not two, but six postboxes - from this fabulous Edward VII pillar box, through to the experimental George V phone box/post box combination! And it's a wonderful day out, too!

Website: www.amberleymuseum.co.uk

Dec 21 - National Museum of Flight

From the early days of flight, through World War II, to supersonic jets, there's something for everyone at this museum in East Lothian. And if you like postboxes, it's also got a post-1905 Edward VII pillar box!

Website: www.nms.ac.uk/national-mus...

Dec 20: Isle of Wight Postal Museum

Our own Arthur Reeder runs this extensive postal museum near Newport, and it is always a favourite. His collection includes over 200 postboxes from all eras. Want to visit? Please contact Arthur to make an appointment.

Website: www.postalmuseum.co.uk/page21.html

Dec 19 - GWR Toddington

The Gloucester Warwickshire Steam Railway runs alongside the former route of the Great Western Railway's main line, taking in the beautiful Cotswolds. Toddington Station features this repainted Victorian pillar box to collect donations for the railway

Website: www.gwsr.com