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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Massive Victorian wall box on Platform Zero at Gravesend Railway Station. 💌 @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

I remain dumbfounded by Royal Mail's insistence on uglifying existing pillar boxes with solar panels for parcels. So, pausing to pop a letter in this purpose-built Charles III letter and parcel box in Addlestone warmed my heart. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #SaveOurPostboxes #PostboxSaturday

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

19th Sept Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ‘anonymous’ Victorian pillar box in Bermondsey where today they’re celebrating the 20th #BermondseyStreetFestival. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this huge George V wall box at the front of St Ursula’s Convent School, Greenwich. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian pillar box on Pepys Road in New Cross, which might be named after the famed diarist but is not where he buried his Parmesan during the Great Fire of London 360 years ago this week. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box at the top of Telegraph Hill in south London. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this giant Edward VII wall box tucked into the grand entrance to Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton, Hampshire. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Posting Box in Tobermory Post Office on the Isle of Mull. It was taken from the front of the original Post Office which now serves as a fish and chip shop 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Tickled to spot this topper on the Edward VIII pillar box in Tobermory harbour straight after a trip to see the awesome Fingal’s Cave and puffins on the Isle of Staffa. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

There’s a lot to love about a cute card shop with a postbox built into its frontage, like this George VI wall box on Odiham High Street. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Type G pillar box across the road from Brixton Underground Station which celebrated its 55 year anniversary this week. 💌🚇 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ERII lamp box in Buryfields, Hampshire. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

I wonder if the late Queen Elizabeth II spotted (or even used) this pair of wall boxes that bear her royal cypher when she opened The Barbican Centre? 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ERII pillar box in Orpington with crocheted topper celebrating the bicentenary of wildness and wonder at The Zoological Society of London. 💌🐘🦒🦓 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ZSLat200

Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box at Deptford Broadway, close to where the ancient Watling Street crosses the River Ravensbourne. The modern name is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon for ‘deep ford’.💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type C dual aperture pillar box with the VR cypher on each door; it stands in Charterhouse Square in Farringdon, which sits atop a 14th-century plague pit. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

In the 90th anniversary year of his abdication, check out this rare Edward VIII pillar box in Elmers End. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social Happy #PostboxSaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box by Eden Park Railway Station. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian wall box outside St John’s Railway Station in Lewisham, which opened on 1st June 1873. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

It’s the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, so here’s a Victorian pillar box off the King’s Road. 💌🌺 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box that was planted on The Webb Estate in Purley at the time the village was established. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box in Lewisham. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box in suburban Orpington. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday and #Koningsdag (King’s Day, celebrated on the 27th April) from this Dutch post box in Amsterdam. 💌🇳🇱 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #Oranjegekte

April showers at this George V pillar box in Purley. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from the Victorian pillar box outside Greenwich Railway Station, which opened during this week in 1840 making it one of the oldest surviving station buildings in the world! 💌🚂 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V wall box opposite the King’s Arms public house in Arundel, West Sussex. It’s the oldest pub in town (established circa 1625) but the current building was erected in the 19th century. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Yesterday was #WorldTheatreDay, so here’s a dual aperture Edward VII pillar box on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s Theatreland. With stamp prices rising (again 😡) it’s the perfect place to post second class mail. 💌🎭 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box opposite former public house The Grange in Thornton Heath. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Wood you believe it! A dam fine postbox topper, if ever there was! Happy #PostboxSaturday all you eager beavers! 😁📮🦫🪵🎉

I never post these Frankenstein monstrosities but it felt personal to see the trusty ERII pillar box on my local shopping parade undergoing the change this week. Frustrating, especially with a perfectly good Post Office nearby. 😢 #PostboxSaturday #SaveOurPostboxes @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Thank you so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for hosting a #WorldBookDay debate in Westminster Hall yesterday! She brilliantly outlined the benefits of reading for pleasure and how it can support bonding and attachment between a child and their caregiver. (1/4)

It's #WorldBookDay, but did you know that reading can make a particular difference to children in kinship care, foster care and adoption? Find out how in our new film #StoriesThatConnectUs, which features the words of real families. Watch now: https://bit.ly/3MKWKtY

It's important to write hand-written letters to your friends when you need to send them something. Ideally while doing a bit. Maybe you're a union soldier, separated from your ladylove. Maybe a hot air balloon operator. We mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us.

#WorldBookDay is coming! Are you planning activities in your classroom? We've got teaching resources and activity ideas to help you champion reading this World Book Day - and meet key literacy outcomes across early years, primary and secondary. Click through to discover: https://loom.ly/8o666J0

I learned so much from facilitating @literacy-trust.bsky.social 'Building Vocabulary' training today with a fabulously disparate group of expert delegates, where a/Apple, o/Orange and o/Oyster (one for the London commuters) were referenced. 🙌🏾 #Etymology literacytrust.org.uk/training-and...

There’s a lot going on right now, but remember letters are a quiet and beautiful way to build relationships, and postboxes are the magical portals that help transport them. If you’re feeling a bit like this cat, click on #PostboxSaturday for the purrfect (sorry) antidote. 🥰📮🐱

Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box at the entrance to St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box partnered with a proper parcel box. They live outside Welling Library. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

How can multimodal texts engage reluctant readers - from classroom to curriculum? This #NationalYearOfReading2026, join us at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for strategies to build the will & skill to read. Book now: https://loom.ly/XlJocCc

Couldn’t let the 300th #PostboxSaturday go by without a little impromptu celebration at the original postbox. Some bubbly, red velvet cake and candles! The sun came out just at the right time as well as some friendly passersby. Thanks so much to everyone for joining in over the years. 😁📮🍾🎂🎉

Happy 300th #PostboxSaturday from one of two octagonal VR pillar boxes featuring a vertical posting aperture in Framlingham, Suffolk. They celebrate their 170th birthdays this year! 💌🥳 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box still in service outside a former Post Office in East Dulwich. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box quietly doing its thing in suburban Shirley, on the border between Croydon and Bromley. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social