The Story of Post boxes

letter-boxes were first put in the rural communities whose inhabitants had previously to wait at the edge of the road (in all weather) for the arrival of the postman. There are 115.000 post boxes in Great Britain, the oldest is 150 years old.

Found in the cities and the villages in all of the British Isles, on the corners of street, attached to the telegraph poles or bench in the externa lwalls of the train stations of country, they all are red. Traditionally made of cast iron coming from the reign of Queen Victoria. The boxes have the badges of the current monarch on them. To commemorate this important stage in the postal history ' English Heritage' have made an agreement that all the existing post boxes of royal mail will be maintained in their current place. Now, the letter-boxes are not all red, some can be gray or green...