Letter boxes: The red heart of the British streetscape

[POSTMAN]

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One of the UK's rarest postboxes is celebrating its 150th anniversary. But what is the future for the red emblem of the British streetscape?

Of the 115,000 or so postboxes dotted around the country, only a single "Liverpool Special" still graces a public space, in the city's Albert Dock.

It is a rare example of a piece of street furniture that perhaps more than any other object helps create a quintessentially British landscape.

The red phone box is (largely) gone. The red postbox remains.

Long but interesting article,read more at the link.

[RedBagMan]

In short ...

"Sod the staff - it's the postbox we want to keep"

[Mr Rush]

"Postboxes - like the old telephone boxes - are symbolic of democratic order and high standards. Whether you lived in Toxteth or Mayfair, there was the same standards for public design."

The same standards of service will soon be gone if TNT is allowed to continue cherry-picking. I don't see them honouring the democratic order.

[Lounge Lizard]

"Postboxes - like the old telephone boxes - are symbolic of democratic order and high standards. Whether you lived in Toxteth or Mayfair, there was the same standards for public design."

The same standards of service will soon be gone if TNT is allowed to continue cherry-picking. I don't see them honouring the democratic order.

"Whether you lived in Toxteth or Mayfair, there was the same standards for public design." - reminds me of the Thatcher era, Whether you lived in Toxteth or Mayfair, you paid the same Poll Tax.