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Newspapers and books began to be within the reach of all, but Royal Mail played a key part and the introduction of letterboxes could be likened to the email of its day.
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I HAVE a confession to make (not of a sinful nature!)
For some time I have had a little obsession with Royal Mail post boxes.
This interest was fuelled a number of years ago after I discovered, built in a wall near my local church, a Royal Mail post box dating from Victorian times. The mailbox, embedded in the wall of a home which once served as the manse to the church, has a distinctive ‘VR’.