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[email protected] · December 11th 15, 12:50 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article id,
lid (Dr J R Stockton) wrote:

In uk.transport.london message
, Wed, 9 Dec 2015
09:06:06, posted:

This urban setting outside the M25 still has evening box collections with
more than 4 within 5 minutes walk of our house.

If you still live in the same place, your 5-minute-area surely has one
of the highest concentrations of letter-writers in the UK. It may be
that so many are provided there not for the convenience of perambulating
posters as such but to save the poor post-collectors having to extract
envelopefuls from boxes crammed to bursting-point with erudite
epistles.

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

But I think most of the boxes are positioned where they are for historical
reasons. The closest one used to be close to the sub-post office until it
closed over 30 years ago. When another one opened about 5 years ago at the
other end of the street they didn't put one outside it. Another is at the
main post office which has moved twice in recent decades and wasn't within 5
minutes' walk at one time.

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Colin Rosenstiel