In message , at 11:08:45 on
Mon, 1 May 2017, remarked:
And just as well email has killed snailmail... all those pillarboxes.

There are still lots with "VR" on them!

This one is reckoned to be the oldest in use,About 30 minutes drive
from here.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513653
I find it quite refreshing in a way that it is almost buried in a
Dorset hedge

No longer: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...cle-2594153-1C
BC852C00000578-883_634x463.jpg

rather than in some prettyfied tourist area of one of the
UK's Capitals or tourist towns such as Bath or York amongst the black
and gold painted litter bins.

--
Roland Perry