Post Boxes

Here's a bonus Latvian box from old town Riga :

Enjoying a little travel at the moment... Here are a couple of post boxes in Tallinn, Estonia.
The first was in old town, the second at the ferry terminal:

Postboxes in front of the Ibis hotels in Nantes (France). Left for the Ibis Budget hotel (cheap) right for the Ibis Styles hotel (more expenssive). I was on the former...

Seen in Cuenca,an old post box from the Correos del Ecuador which was liquidated in 2020.A new company was formed ,Servicios Postales del Ecuador .
This new company already has a terrible reputation .Extremely high prices and very little international mail service.They say there is mail service to the USA but I have been told by members of the local stamp club this is  completely unreliable.

Hotel Chateau Frontenac
Quebec City, Canada

While walking around Quebec City yesterday, we made a brief visit to the historic Hotel Chateau Frontenac, which originally opened in 1893 and is today a designated Canadian National Historic Site as well as an operational Fairmont Hotel.  Amongst the resplendent interior decor, I was pleased to see two original, old-style brass postboxes that are still in service with Canada Post. Bravo!


Left: Solid brass postbox in the main lobby of the Hotel Chateau Frontenac. Middle: Close-up of the old Royal Mail Canada crest of the postbox shown on the left.  Right: A second brass postbox was found in another, smaller elevator lobby in the hotel.

The road trip continues... Now in Bosnia and Herzegovina, still trying to get my head around the political situation here (three presidents!).
1st two boxes were found in Mostar and seem to be administered by Croatian post office, the 3rd is also in Mostar but no identifying marks, the 4th is from Sarajevo and clearly shows a Bosnian post office (despite both Mostar and Sarajevo being in the Federation of BiH), I didn't stop in the Republika Srpska. 

This roadtrip started and has now ended in Croatia, here are the final 4 postboxes: firstly a nice quirky one in Split, then three more pretty standard ones spread between Split, Dubrovnik and Zadar

I saw this posted on Facebook today and thought it was cool enough to share. It is marked US MAIL. 

MAILBOX between ELevator Doors from the Lobby of the 570 Lexington Building (originally the GE Building), 1929-1931

Architect: John W. Cross of Cross & Cross

The General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue, and as the RCA Victor Building during its construction, is located at the southwestern corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

(Photo credit: artdecodude [IG])

came across a picture of this on instagram and had to share this.
first time I have seen a postbox with such a colourful knit hat 
enjoy !!

" when the post box knows spring is springing "

Postbox from Correo Uruguayo,found in Colonia del Sacramento,Uruguay. A 90 minute ferry ride from Buenos Aires.Dated 1879 and sadly covered with the usual graffiti.It was also padlocked but could not tell if it was still in use.

Ps  Just the postbox dated 1879...I am a little newer...

India  : Travancore


Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales,  Australia

I find my myself in a different country again, so here is an obligatory postbox: this one was in the Haga district of Göteborg, Sweden...

Lunenburg Canada Post box featuring Bluenose.

Rural Post Boxes ...

When we first started coming to Wolfe Island, this was our 'community post box' ... if you wanted to mail a letter, you'd put a stamp on it, put it in your 'box' and the carrier would pick it up when he/she delivered the mail. If you didn't have a stamp, well ... you'd have to travel 15KM to the post office in the village. In the 'olden' days before Rural Delivery (i.e. before 1918) there were four sub-offices in people's homes at various points on the island. The one for my area was right across the street from these boxes. The house is still there. So are these boxes, it seems a couple of them are now used as bird houses. The birds keep coming back every year.



Then about fifteen years ago ... we got these brand, spanking new community mailboxes. You pick up your mail in your own 'locked' box, parcels in the shared boxes (if you get a parcel, the key is left in your mailbox) and you can drop an outgoing letter in the slot in the red box. They originally had two, then three towers of boxes. This photo has four as an additional one was added about a month ago. While there has been some population growth, the reason for the extra boxes seems to be that more weekend / summer residents are getting boxes instead of going to the village for their mail.

Our island is long (26KM) and narrow with about 1,200 people between October and June and double, perhaps triple, that in the summer. I live about 1.5KM down the road from this set of boxes. It's a nice walk in the summer and / or I pick up my mail to and from the ferry which leaves from the village. There are three other sets of community boxes like this on the island - one of which services the 80 or so people that live on Simcoe Island just offshore from ours. The village folk get there mail delivered or can rent a box in the main PO. 

If we weren't on an island, with only 1,200 full-time residents we probably would have lost our PO years ago. So, yeah, summer residents.