Sunday, 16 March 2014

Letters, postcards and postboxes


In 2002 the Royal Mail issued a series of stamps with the title "Pillar to Post" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first pillar box.  I thought I had  the whole series of 5 as PHQ cards but the ones above are the only ones I can lay my hands on today.

Apart from these I found several from the Netherlands:





I believe there were several designs of the Postcrossing stamp, and I'm fairly sure I have had others but they must be filed in the same place as my pillar box stamp cards.

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Posted by Sheila @ A Postcard a Day at 16.3.14
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11 comments:

  1. Lisa B16 March 2014 at 16:40

    I really like seeing all the different GB sets that I totally missed - the Pillar to Post being yet another one -so I can add them to my mental list of things to look out for.
    Pretty cool that postcrossing is celebrated on a stamp.
    I know what you mean about filing, I have a similar system ;).

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  2. viridian16 March 2014 at 17:14

    I've not seen those stamps of the pillar boxes, so happy to see them! I think there were 4 different postcrossing stamps issued by the Netherlands. Now there are some just issued by Finland - I hope to receive those, eventually.
    Thank you for participating.

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  3. Bob Scotney16 March 2014 at 18:19

    I missed Thee Pillar to Post as well. That VR box is superb.

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  4. Heleen16 March 2014 at 19:52

    The pillar box stamp designs are wonderful!

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  5. Mail Adventures16 March 2014 at 20:36

    I like your choice. I have received myself the stamps from the NEtherlands, but I hadn't seen the pillar boxes. They are wonderful!

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  6. Little Nell17 March 2014 at 11:28

    I have soft spot for that small child practising handwriting (it’s the former teacher in me!); it’s actually quite a clever stamp. Thank goodness she managed to spell ‘Nederland’ correctly.

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    1. luvlinens17 March 2014 at 19:39

      Little Nell, I understand that they don't even teach handwriting in schools anymore. That is pretty frightening to me. What if you don't have a keyboard or electricity handy.

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  7. luvlinens17 March 2014 at 19:37

    Very nice stamps.

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  8. VioletSky17 March 2014 at 22:46

    love those pillar boxes and hope you can find the others!

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  9. Postcardy22 March 2014 at 00:06

    I like the pillar box set. Those two look very Christmassy together.

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  10. RNSANE25 March 2014 at 09:37

    I love the green post box. I've never seen one that color.

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