On Monday, 1 May 2017 01:30:29 UTC+1, Nobody wrote:

And just as well email has killed snailmail... all those pillarboxes.

I thought snailmail was doing fairly well. I get a lot of post every day, and not just junk, Amazon, Ebay, magazines, statements...

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
Offramp wrote:

From: Offramp
Subject: Things Named After The Current Queen
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
User-Agent: G2/1.0
Newsgroups: uk.transport.london

lots of Cocks!

In article ,
() wrote:

On Mon, 01 May 2017 02:10:31 -0500,
wrote:

Just as around 1700 Queen's Counsel will become King's Counsel,
at around the same time.

And just as well email has killed snailmail... all those pillarboxes.

There are still lots with "VR" on them!

This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week recently to
find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All those around were
linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across from
where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had them. In one
case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 16:18:08
on Mon, 1 May 2017, remarked:
This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week recently to
find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All those around were
linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across from
where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had them. In one
case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

Yes, it's often possible in smaller tons to see where the Post Office
used to be, on account of having (often a two-slot) pillar box on the
street outside. Outside what's now a charity/mobilephone/sandwich/...
shop.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 11:08:45 on
Mon, 1 May 2017, remarked:
And just as well email has killed snailmail... all those pillarboxes.

There are still lots with "VR" on them!

This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge

No longer: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...cle-2594153-1C
BC852C00000578-883_634x463.jpg

rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

--
Roland Perry

wrote in message
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In article ,
(Nobody) wrote:

On Mon, 1 May 2017 00:25:09 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote:

"Offramp" wrote in message
...

England: Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London

Which presumably will become the King's (or President's) Gallery, at
some point in the future.

Just as around 1700 Queen's Counsel will become King's Counsel,
at around the same time.

And just as well email has killed snailmail... all those pillarboxes.

There are still lots with "VR" on them!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

This should link to a photograph of a pillar box next to a tree
which I took 4 years ago. Although Tinypic has been rubbish
of late. Doubtless this has already appeared on numerous London
Blogs etc. etc.. I'm always meaning to do a follow
up. Any local resident intending to stay around could
have produced a nice animation with a weekly snap.
Maybe somebody has dunno.

http://tinypic.com/r/uri48/9


michael adams

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On Tue, 2 May 2017 09:09:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 16:18:08
on Mon, 1 May 2017, remarked:
This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week recently to
find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All those around were
linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across from
where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had them. In one
case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

Yes, it's often possible in smaller tons to see where the Post Office
used to be, on account of having (often a two-slot) pillar box on the
street outside. Outside what's now a charity/mobilephone/sandwich/...
shop.

True, and not just in smaller towns. In my London suburb, the post
office used to be a double-sized shop; there still is one, but it's
now just a counter in a convenience store a few shops along. The
double-slot post box hasn't moved, and it's now outside the Polish
food shop that occupies the old post office site.

In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Tue, 2 May 2017 09:09:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at
16:18:08 on Mon, 1 May 2017, remarkedrive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week
recently to find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All
those around were linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across
from where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had
them. In one case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

Yes, it's often possible in smaller tons to see where the Post Office
used to be, on account of having (often a two-slot) pillar box on the
street outside. Outside what's now a charity/mobilephone/sandwich/...
shop.

True, and not just in smaller towns. In my London suburb, the post
office used to be a double-sized shop; there still is one, but it's
now just a counter in a convenience store a few shops along. The
double-slot post box hasn't moved, and it's now outside the Polish
food shop that occupies the old post office site.

London suburbs are just the size of places that lost their Crown Post
Offices years ago. The Putney one was rebuilt while I was growing up but is
now a shop with only sub-post offices serving the place. But there still are
pillar boxes all round the area, unrelated to current or former post offices.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 02-May-17 1:22 PM, Recliner wrote:
On Tue, 2 May 2017 09:09:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 16:18:08
on Mon, 1 May 2017, remarked:
This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week recently to
find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All those around were
linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across from
where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had them. In one
case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

Yes, it's often possible in smaller tons to see where the Post Office
used to be, on account of having (often a two-slot) pillar box on the
street outside. Outside what's now a charity/mobilephone/sandwich/...
shop.

True, and not just in smaller towns. In my London suburb, the post
office used to be a double-sized shop; there still is one, but it's
now just a counter in a convenience store a few shops along. The
double-slot post box hasn't moved, and it's now outside the Polish
food shop that occupies the old post office site.


Our local PO is now the HQ of Radio Jackie.

On 2017\05\02 22:59, wrote:

Phew , I half expected to open that and find that it had been
demolished by an errant road sweeper or worse been uprooted and swiped
for some town or city's twee improved pedestrian area with newly laid
cobbles and reproduction Edwardian lampposts till I noticed the 2014
date.

Either a thing looks nice or it doesn't. Why was it okay for Edwardians
to make things that looked nice but it's not okay for us? The people who
make beauty in the age of ugliness deserve praise, not criticism.