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22-12-2004, 23:36
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Post boxes
As I posted a letter today I wondered why some post boxes are round and some are square. This was the first square post box Busman was ever aware of having seen I think.
Anybody know why the different shapes? Is it purely a size thing? Oh, and while we're at it, what about those appendages some of them have?
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22-12-2004, 23:56
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Re: Post boxes
I thought it might have been put there when George was still on the throne, but that thought was dashed when I saw the EIIR on the front.
I have only ever seen one with a G on it, and that was in a village just outside of Maidstone in Kent
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24-12-2004, 13:31
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Re: Post boxes
Couls also be one of them European rulings as well.On the continent they are all square
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10-02-2005, 19:55
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Re: Post boxes
willow have a look at the one outside stag inn its pretty owd its got V.R on it victoria regina i think,someone said they only left the pub there because of the postbox, doubt it like the pub is owder than postbox.
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10-02-2005, 21:28
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Re: Post boxes
I want to know why they turned the post box outside boots round so the letter box faces towards the shop instead of away from it??
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11-02-2005, 21:37
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Re: Post boxes
Nope! posted a letter this evening and got soaked....
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13-02-2005, 15:25
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Re: Post boxes
Think the appendages are a secure storage place for more mail;think the postie goes back to there and picks up post rather than back to the depot.
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13-02-2005, 15:43
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Re: Post boxes
I keep meaning to ask a postman friend of mine about that but keep forgetting.
Ever since you mentioned the "VR" Staggeringman I've been trying to find another one - so far without success.
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13-02-2005, 18:18
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Re: Post boxes
here you are willow a g.r. this one is in slaidburn.
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