The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society

So glad it arrived safely! Delighted to have you onboard! 🤩💌

A pile of stationery including a certificate commemorating membership of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society.

So lovely to receive my @letterappsoc.bsky.social welcome cert and badge yesterday, and a delightful handwritten letter (obvs) from Dinah.

Remember our pilgrimage to Westminster Abbey on the 185th anniversary of #PennyBlackDay to find Sir Rowland Hill? Please will you join me in writing to Royal Mail to see if they could help celebrate this year’s with a special postmark for the 6th May! Thanks everso! 😁🎩✉️🖤

The digital parcel box monstrosity coming soon. ☹️📮👎

I never post these Frankenstein monstrosities but it felt personal to see the trusty ERII pillar box on my local shopping parade undergoing the change this week. Frustrating, especially with a perfectly good Post Office nearby. 😢
#PostboxSaturday
#SaveOurPostboxes
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red sign on the top of a double post box, pointing left in the direction of a Post Office. 1970s font. red bus and stone buildings behind on a sunny day.

Regent Street, London

#PostboxSaturday

Two of the remaining four King George VI type C boxes withstand half hour walk of each other #postboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Lessons from ‘Letters to Loved Ones’ A project transcribing letters from WWII brought history to life.

I recently finished a 3-month project transcribing letters and documents for an IWM / DCMS project marking the 80th anniversary of VE / VJ Day.

It was a moving and fascinating project.

Here are some of my lessons from the Letters to Loved Ones archive and links to letters I think you should read.

Wood you believe it! A dam fine postbox topper, if ever there was! Happy #PostboxSaturday all you eager beavers! 😁📮🦫🪵🎉

Just a few THLAS HQ snapshots from the last week or two… Keep writing those letters, folks! ☺️💌

Dam your eyes! It’s not the worst news in the world currently by far but it all just chips away, doesn’t it. We got our first victim today. Like a plague for postboxes. Photos two days apart. #SaveOurPostboxes 😱📮❌☹️

Hong Kong to Dorset in just 3 days! This must’ve ridden like the wind! #YearOfTheHorse 🤩✉️🐎🇭🇰🇬🇧

Whenever someone joins The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society it honestly makes me feel so proud that they want to be a part of our community to help keep handwritten letters alive for everyone. Thank you so much to all our wonderful members. 😌✉️✨

Letter writing is an effort. That’s the point. ✉️

Can’t be certain Mackenzie Crook ever got the wax-sealed letter I sent back in 2021 but delighted to see letter writing is an important part of the plot for his new series… #SmallProphets ☺️📺✉️🇨🇦

Happy #StDavidsDay from the Letter Writing Shed. Here’s hoping you all have someone to correspond some colour and comfort to this #LetterWritingSunday… ☺️✉️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💛

There’s a lot going on right now, but remember letters are a quiet and beautiful way to build relationships, and postboxes are the magical portals that help transport them. If you’re feeling a bit like this cat, click on #PostboxSaturday for the purrfect (sorry) antidote. 🥰📮🐱

Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box at the entrance to St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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A postbox on a station platform for #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Good point. ☹️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box partnered with a proper parcel box. They live outside Welling Library. 💌
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An interesting looking box for #postboxsaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Here’s a Cassandra-like warning: If/when they want to privatise The Royal Mail, fight like h*ll against it. Denmark is now on its second month without our old national postal service, and to say that the private company DAO that has taken over, is botching it, would be a huge understatement.

Unfortunately it’s too late. Royal Mail has been privatised already. So sorry to hear about the mess in Denmark. I did write to Kim Pedersen. Could Denmark’s citizens too?

Just a little montage from the past week or so… ☺️📮💌

Small confession, I bought most of these myself, but when I popped into the card shop to buy husband one, the ginormous card reminded me of being a kid in the 80s so couldn’t resist. Were St Christopher’s an odd #Valentines gift at your school back then too or just ours? 😄💌😇🤷‍♀️

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in the stamps for school kids giveaway. A winner has been selected. Happy Saturday everyone! 🥳🥰✉️🎉

👑📮⏳30 YEARS AGO

EDWARD VIII - reigned less than a year; few postboxes were made in his name
ORIGINAL LOCATION - Installed in Liverpool in 1936
REPAIRED - the fix to the collection plate holder has been there nearly half the box's lifetime!

Have you seen any Edward VIII postboxes?

#postboxsaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday this #ValentinesDay, all you lovely postbox fanciers! Let’s continue to show our undying love for our wonderful postboxes every day by feeding them a little letter or two on passing… 🥰📮🐦🍞💌