The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society

Let’s make 2026 the year of the letter. Feel inspired, send a letter. Feel grateful, send a letter. Feel hope, send a letter. Feel lost or numb, send a letter. Be it to a friend, loved one, actor, author, MP, business leader, whoever you want. Just know, letters still matter. ✉️

Purely out of interest, how are the rest of you spending your Monday evening… (Might be a late one up the #LetterWritingShed) #THLAS9 😄🍻📦🎶🎉

Had a bit of a blank for our 9th birthday cake design until youngest came up with an idea yesterday… (real wax-seal for scale) #THLAS9 😄💌🍰🎉

Thank you so much for making our #THLAS9 celebrations so lovely! I wish you all friends as kind and generous and creative as those in The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. So grateful, you special people. (Pat et al are hoping for cake and fizzy later) #DeskGallery 🥳💌🎉

The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society is 9 years old today! Thanks everso to members, followers, supporters and letter writers everywhere for helping to inspire all those years of encouraging the world to keep writing letters. What would be a good way to celebrate? 🥳✉️🍰🎉

Very special box in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh (3rd floor) #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

It’s our 9th birthday on Monday 26th October. We haven’t made any big plans to celebrate this year, but if you’re near a sandy beach this half-term do write our name in the sand. Sending a letter or postcard to a loved one would be a lovely way to help us celebrate too. 🥳🏖️✉️🎉

Found a postbox topper to go with our Axel Scheffler stamper… #PostboxSaturday 😍📮🐿️

Not sure if this is the postbox on the stamp after all, but the Beatrix Potter quote is still my favourite… (We really enjoyed our £1 charity shop DVD too) #PostboxSaturday 🤩📮🐰📺

Happy #PostboxSaturday, fellow postbox spotters! Delighted to go on an actual Postman’s Path up in the Lake District as found in Alan Cleaver’s lovely book, The Postal Paths. It even included a trip on a narrow-gauge railway… 😁📮📗🥾🚂

It’s #TrafalgarDay, today. I think about the brilliance of Horatio Nelson a lot because 1) he keeps me company in the Letter Writing Shed, and 2) I hold a piece of HMS Victory in my hand most days in the form of a letter opener gifted to me by our late great member, Don. 🥰🇬🇧✉️🎉

“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” (Pat’s always prone to a bit of Shakespeare out on his rounds with views like this) 😄🚗☕️🐈‍⬛⛰️

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what’s this then? Looks like #PostboxSaturday at Wookey Hole to me… 😄📮🚔🚨

A Victorian wall boxes for #postboxsaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Always time for a bit of letter sending and postbox spotting on a Saturday. Have a fab #PostboxSaturday everyone! ☺️📮⏱️🕰️⏰

GviR at ex-PO, Lincs #postboxsaturday

Anyone else been enjoying the re-runs of the dashing and daring (and a little bit potty-mouthed) Sharpe on the telly lately? (Fab stamps on the SAEs too, you lovely little “beauties”!) 😍📺🙊💌

This idea that no one sends letters anymore, I just don’t buy it… ☺️💭📮👍

Someone (the CEO of Royal Mail) is getting a slightly tea-stained (and impassioned) letter in the next day or so… 😬🫖💌

Anyone fancy coming back to 1984 with me and popping along to my local record shop to see what singles they have in stock… ☺️💿🎶✉️

In celebration of our 9th birthday on 26th October, please can everyone write to Alistair Cochrane, CEO of Royal Mail, to tell him what letter writing means to you. The reasons I hear are so moving, I want him to know too. It’s FREEPOST, Royal Mail, PO Box 76085, London, EC1P 1HA. Thanks everso! 🥳💌

Happy 102nd Birthday to this incredible gentleman and D-Day veteran. What a legend. 🥳🫡🎖️🇬🇧🎉 www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Stamped Addressed Envelopes that arrived over the weekend heading out with THLAS postcards later today. Still time to send for some if you’d like to. (Send a SAE to THLAS, PO Box 9347, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 9BG) ☺️✉️👍

@hamishmcsporran.bsky.social This is the paint I was talking about 👍

The largest collection of post boxes outside of a museum at the @lbsg.org AGM today #postboxsaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian pillar box at the western end of the Grade II listed Georgian crescent Gloucester Circus, Greenwich. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

They seem such a small part of the landscape, but they have such a big impact in keeping us connected with letters we post in them and the posties that go to every house in the country delivering them. A humble but mighty sign of the power of a postal service. #PostboxSaturday 📮

One of these membership packs was heading to the Isle of Wight this afternoon so I said if the view had cleared when I went to post them I’d give them a wave. 😄👋✉️

Postbox: I see your big planter headdress and raise you a #FingerpostFriday one… 😆📮🪴👉👍

Nearly forgot it is #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Only really wanted to order 250 more Society postcards, but it was cheaper in the end to buy 1,000… Anyway, if anyone would like some (would 5 be a good number?) just send a SAE to THLAS, PO Box 9347, BH19 9BG and I can send you some. 😄✉️👍

Save the date for this year’s #ChristmasCardDay! Send everyone you know some cheery good news for the Christmas season and let’s fill our beautiful postboxes with Christmas cards on Wednesday 9th December! 🥳🎄⛪️👼💌

When you find a Postman Pat annual in the secondhand bookshop of a stately home, it’s always nice to share… 😁🏛️📘❤️

Wishing you all a Terrific, Happy and United #PostboxSaturday from the four corners of the Kingdom and beyond! Please see that our postboxes are fed a little letter or two occasionally as well… 😄📮🇬🇧👀

A little teaser too… Axel Scheffler is a fantastic champion of letters and postcards, as well as The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, and how I’m not going to let the cat out of the bag by next year’s #WorldPostcardDay will be anyone’s guess! Save the date! 🤩📮🎉

I often think #WorldPostcardDay is about treating our postboxes to some lovely postcards too… (even more so now some of them have been irreparably damaged by “modifications”) #SaveOurPostboxes 🥹📮💔

Thanks everso for all the incoming #WorldPostcardDay postcards today! Always a good sign when there are elastic bands involved… 🤩❤️

@letterappsoc.bsky.social My youngest granddaughter has gone to uni. I sent my first letter last week. "Thanks SO much for my letter! I loved it as I'm missing everyone. Can't wait for the next one" ❤️ Very Happy to oblige! I wrote to her sister most weeks for 4 years!

Here’s hoping you’ve all had a wonderful #WorldPostcardDay wherever you are. Thanks so much to the fab posties in our midst. I know you know, but how incredible that you get to collect and deliver all those snippets of people’s lives direct to someone’s hands and heart. ☺️🫶🌏💌

Boiler working, 16 postcards written. One tea, one coffee and one Bailey’s were consumed. (Some of you drink a lot of tea!) Also, missed the post so will post on #WorldPostcardDay itself! 😄✍️✉️☕️🫖🥃

UPDATE Hot drinks: 1 (it was coffee) Postcards: 6 Gasmen: 0 #WorldPostcardDay 😄☕️📮🔥👍

Wondering how many cups of tea and postcards I’ll get through by the time the gasman arrives. ETA between 12-6pm. (If someone guesses the right number I’ll send them a postcard!) #WorldPostcardDay 😆🕰️✍️☕️✉️

Send some loved ones some lovely postcards full of love and joy and humour and cheer this #WorldPostcardDay! Use pretty stamps if you can. 🥰✉️🌍🌎🌏👍

Do we think this will: A) Get to Daniel B) Get put in the recycling bin C) A+B (Here’s hoping for A!) #WorldPostcardDay 😁📮🤞🇨🇿🎉

Nice to see a lamp box clinging to a post with a hat on #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

Loving #PostboxSaturday definitely doesn’t make you a donkey. It makes you someone who values these beautiful postal portals that do the donkey work of carrying our precious inky (pinky ponky?) letters backwards and forwards over donkey’s years! 😁📮🫏❤️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box in Oban, known as the ‘Gateway to the Isles’ because it serves as the main ferry port for travel to the Inner and Outer Hebrides. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Nice little servicestation ER box for #PostBoxSaturday I like these so much better than the plastic ones! @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

No need to be Magdalen, it’s #PostboxSaturday! There are even photos of Victorian postboxes near Oxford colleges with niche pronunciations… 😁📮🧑‍🎓❤️

Special postmarks available from London Special Handstamp Centre & Birmingham via Northern SHC Edinburgh using these ref numbers.