Post boxes

[WillowTheWhisp]

As I posted a letter today I wondered why some post boxes are round and some are square. This was the first square post box Busman was ever aware of having seen I think.

Anybody know why the different shapes? Is it purely a size thing? Oh, and while we're at it, what about those appendages some of them have?

 

[vorlon24]

I thought it might have been put there when George was still on the throne, but that thought was dashed when I saw the EIIR on the front.

I have only ever seen one with a G on it, and that was in a village just outside of Maidstone in Kent

 

[entwisi]

Probably just a style thing, whatever shape was fashionable when that particular box was made.

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

Are there other square ones about? I've seen fatter oval ones too.

 

[Mik Dickinson]

Couls also be one of them European rulings as well.On the continent they are all square

 

[Hank]

Appendages? What? Arms and legs and Stuff? Hey man, too much Christmas cheer baby!

 

[staggeringman]

willow have a look at the one outside stag inn its pretty owd its got V.R on it victoria regina i think,someone said they only left the pub there because of the postbox, doubt it like the pub is owder than postbox.

 

[Uncle Mick]

I want to know why they turned the post box outside boots round so the letter box faces towards the shop instead of away from it??

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

More sheltered from the elements maybe?

 

[Uncle Mick]

Nope! posted a letter this evening and got soaked....

 

[lindsay ormerod]

Think the appendages are a secure storage place for more mail;think the postie goes back to there and picks up post rather than back to the depot.

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

I keep meaning to ask a postman friend of mine about that but keep forgetting.

Ever since you mentioned the "VR" Staggeringman I've been trying to find another one - so far without success.

 

[staggeringman]

here you are willow a g.r. this one is in slaidburn.

 

[chav1]

I want to know why they turned the post box outside boots round so the letter box faces towards the shop instead of away from it??

people were getting distracted by the sexy staff and kept missingthe letterbox maybe