Queen Victoria’s miniature post box which she used to send letters and cards during her reign 140 years ago has been unearthed and is set to fetch up to £6,000. The beautiful wooden table ...

This miniature gold post box will be presented to swimming star Ellie Simmonds when she takes an open-top bus tour around her home town. Staff at Walsall Leather Museum created the 9in replica of ...

A mail enthusiast has spent more than 30 years amassing the largest private collection of post boxes in mainland UK. Steve Knight, 63, began his collection 35 years ago after noticing how the ...

Emma Gilthorpe, Royal Mail’s chief executive, said: ‘More than 115,000 postboxes across the UK have recorded the succession of monarchs since the first box bore the cypher of Queen Victoria.

There are some 85,000 boxes - the classic pillars and others mounted on walls or posts - across England, and about 115,300 in the UK. Royal Mail has pledged to conserve them in their existing ...

Phil Allen, UK My local postbox is last collection at 1715 but I've seen it being emptied at 1710. Also with the tab system we could all see if the box had not been emptied the previous advertised ...