These are the postboxes that I have collected through my walks. I like postboxes. They say something about the community that they serve. You can read more about British postboxes at the web site of the Letter Box Study Group. The Bath Postal Museum has a complete history of pillar boxes and sells miniatures.

This page has British postboxes in chronological order followed by foreign boxes.

25 April 2000, Monmouth, Monmouthshire

A Victorian pillar box from 1866 is displaying all the love of decoration of that time. It stands in front of the town hall in Monmouth.

30 January 2000, Springfield Farm, Buckinghamshire

A Victorian postbox set into the wall of a village house that used to serve as post office.

2 July 2000, Daylesford, Oxfordshire

A Georgian postbox set into a wall of Cotswold stone in a neat village. This cipher belongs to George V.

19 January 2002, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Still a wall box but more modern, this one is from the reign of Elizabeth II, the current queen. From the markings just above the box, it looks as if there used to be a larger box set here or at least one with a wider lip.

9 September 2000, Bledlow

This Georgian postbox in its pillar decorated with ivy is typical of the Chilterns.

27 October 2001, Chadlington

Another Georgian postbox is in need of a paint job. It's a so called lamp letterbox. These were originally introduced in the capital because there often weren't any walls suitable for a built-in postbox and pillar boxes were too large and expensive. However nowadays most lamp letterboxes are found in the countryside.

11 March 2000, Burlington, MA, United States

The first of these foreign postboxes are from the American East Coast.

17 February 2002, South San Francisco, CA, United States

A closer look at a solitary postbox. You can see the collection times on the sticker on the horisontal surface. To put a letter in, you pull the handle hidden under the dome, put the letter inside the lid and return the lid to its upright position.

6 May 2001, Dieppe, France

A yellow postbox like this French one feels reassuring to someone who grew up with the "postal yellow" boxes in Germany and Sweden.

12 November 2001, Malaga, Spain

Two Spanish postboxes. The red one is for express mail, the yellow one for regular mail.