By 1857 a horizontal design was considered standard and lessons had been learnt around preventing water ingress, particularly positioning the aperture just below a protective cap on the top of the box ...

Perhaps the reason why design is the distant, far-flung poor relation in our cultural family tree – with literature the treasured son – is encapsulated in our post boxes. Novelist and postal ...

Royal Mail has announced new postboxes that are including a major change to their iconic design by making them solar-powered. Another change is going to make the posting slot much larger in order ...