MonoMonday: Mail Boxes...........

............ Three of a kind but different!

The First is a Royal Mail box there since George VI (Father of the present Queen Elizabeth II ) and incorporates a Stamp Vending Machine - the Second is also a Royal mail one but set in the wall of was once the village Post Office and is now a private house - and the third is the most modern Royal Mail Box for ElizabethII . - this particular one only for mail which has been machine stamped by machine (franked).

They are bright red - sometimes with black bases - and stand out fairly well. There are now red boxes on poles for the use of dog owners which, if you happen to be driving along in the car looking for a Post Box, you could just possibly mistake one for the other at a distance!!

My BOUI must be about the Postal Service!! :-

1) The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the Posts", a position that was renamed "Postmaster General" in 1710.

2) The first Mail coach ran in 1784, operating between Bristol and London. Changes took place when the Uniform Penny Post was introduced on 10 January 1840 whereby a single rate for delivery anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland was pre-paid by the sender. A few months later, to certify that postage had been paid on a letter, the sender could affix the first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black that was available for use from 6 May the same year.

3) The first Mail coach ran in 1784, operating between Bristol and London. Changes took place when the Uniform Penny Post was introduced on 10 January 1840 whereby a single rate for delivery anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland was pre-paid by the sender. A few months later, to certify that postage had been paid on a letter, the sender could affix the first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black that was available for use from 6 May the same year .

4) As Britain was the first country to issue prepaid postage stamps, British stamps are the only stamps that do not bear the name of the country of issue on them.

5) The first Post Office pillar box was erected in 1852 in Jersey. Pillar boxes were introduced in mainland Britain the following year.

Another lovely day - so far - Temperature at 66 Deg.F. at 10am.

My Blip was a little later than I had intended - just had a peek at what Daughter Anni had posted - whoops, what's happened here thought I - my pictures in her journal !! - on closer examination, I could see they were very different ones to mine but similar enough to make me substitute one of my boxes for another. No time to go out again for other possible alternatives!

Hope you receive something nice in the post (mail) today - not just bills!!!