Postboxes in the UK bear the 'royal cypher' (initials, basically) of the monarch on the throne at the time they are installed, and have done since Queen Victoria's reign - meaning you can very roughly ascertain how old a postbox is just by looking at it postalmuseum.org/blog/royβ¦
The reason why the postbox outside the Manchester (UK) Museum of Science & Industry is blue, is because blue was a special colour used for airmail postboxes in the 1930's. There are only two blue postboxes in the UK. geograph.org.uk/photo/239β¦
:That in Vanuatu, an island in the South Pacific, there is an underwater post office that has an underwater mailbox and a postman that will process your mail if you go to him tourismontheedge.com/placβ¦
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