FEBRUARY 2024 – WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PILLAR BOX AND A LETTER BOX?
This question was answered recently in The Times. The newspaper’s archive editor Rose Wild writes a weekly feedback column on issues from its Letters page, and on 27th January 2024 we were very pleased to read the following: “I was too quick off the mark last week...
LBSG backs new British letter box plan
The leading authority on British letter boxes welcomes Royal Mail’s new commitment to maintain and increase the number of postal collection points. The Letter Box Study Group (LBSG) today gave qualified approval of Royal Mail’s decision to change its operating...
Cheltenham’s ‘rare’ Penfold post boxes
"How often do you give a second thought about the pillar box you use when you go to post a letter? People putting mail in one of a handful of old letter boxes in Cheltenham may not be aware of their historical significance. The town is home to eight "rare" original...
LBSG says new Ofcom proposals on British letter boxes ‘should go further’
The Letter Box Study Group submitted a detailed response to the Ofcom consultation on UK post box provision on April 30, 2013...read more
British letter boxes
Our Chairman took a film crew from the predominant Chinese state television broadcaster into a typical British city centre to talk about the how the British love their red letter boxes. "There's a massive campaign quite often if there's any suggestion of removing a...
The One Show – Scottish letter boxes
We provided the BBC's flagship magazine programme (average daily viewers: 5 million) with a package of research, pictures, information and background material for a piece about the trials and tribulations of the first Queen Elizabeth II letter boxes in Scotland.
British Philatelic Bulletin
"The Letter Box Study Group has for many years recorded details of British and overseas letter boxes and publishes a very well produced Newsletter as well as other publications and postcards. The current winter newsletter reflects the vitality of this Group..." Click...
150th Birthday of the Liverpool Special pillar box
Our Chairman, Andrew R Young, gives a live interview to the Sean Styles Show on location at an historic and rare pillar box in the city of Liverpool. Listen to the broadcast (scroll to the 2 hr 10 min point).
Remembering the Liverpool Special postbox on its 150th birthday
"Robert Cole, from the Letter Box Study Group, says: “There is also one in The British Postal Museum Store in Debden, Essex. Altogether that makes three accounted for, but we have no idea where the other four have gone. They could be still in Liverpool, maybe even in...
Why this Special One is just part of the furniture
"Yet it is still something of a mystery. Now, to mark the anniversary – and in pursuit of its mission to map and measure Britain’s red breasted beauties – The Letter Box Study Group (for it is they) wants to gather stats and stories about the Liverpool Specials: the...
Letter boxes: The red heart of the British streetscape
"The Letter Box Study Group (LBSG), which maps sites across the UK, is not just concerned with this postal oddity today, but with the fate of all the boxes. In 2002, Royal Mail undertook to repaint each of its letter boxes every three years. But, according to Andrew...