In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Tue, 2 May 2017 09:09:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at
16:18:08 on Mon, 1 May 2017, remarkedrive
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 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.

I was surprised when on a visit to St Ives, Cornwall, for a week
recently to find they don't really believe in street letter boxes. All
those around were linked to post offices.

I actually asked where there might be one near the bus station, across
from where we were staying, and was told that only post offices had
them. In one case that was by the previous site of one that has moved.

Yes, it's often possible in smaller tons to see where the Post Office
used to be, on account of having (often a two-slot) pillar box on the
street outside. Outside what's now a charity/mobilephone/sandwich/...
shop.

True, and not just in smaller towns. In my London suburb, the post
office used to be a double-sized shop; there still is one, but it's
now just a counter in a convenience store a few shops along. The
double-slot post box hasn't moved, and it's now outside the Polish
food shop that occupies the old post office site.

London suburbs are just the size of places that lost their Crown Post
Offices years ago. The Putney one was rebuilt while I was growing up but is
now a shop with only sub-post offices serving the place. But there still are
pillar boxes all round the area, unrelated to current or former post offices.

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Colin Rosenstiel