Emma Gilthorpe, CEO at Royal Mail, said: “In making this historic change to our postboxes, our goal is to maximise choice and convenience for our customers. In an era where letter volumes continue to decline and parcels are booming, we are giving our iconic postboxes a new lease of life on street corners across the nation. “You can now drop your parcel in any postbox where it fits – you just need a label with a barcode.”After a successful trial period in Jersey and Guernsey, the first pillar boxes appeared in Britain in 1853. These early letter boxes were not standardised, because design, manufacture and installation was largely the responsibility of local surveyors.By 1859, all pillar boxes were standardised in two sizes, a larger size for high-volume areas and narrower for elsewhere, with a cylindrical shape, painted green.
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