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There are presently over 116,000 purple submit boxes round the UK. As we go about our each day business we regularly stroll previous them with no second thought, taking it without any consideration that after we wish to submit a letter – the submit box can be in a useful location close by. Nevertheless, the submit box has been a part of the British mainland’s panorama since 1853. Following the introduction of Rowland Hill’s Uniform Penny Postage in 1840, the quantity of mail elevated and, as there have been solely a small variety of Publish Places of work, we adopted the continental follow of putting in roadside boxes to make amassing the mail simpler. Listed below are ten attention-grabbing information on the historical past of submit boxes 가루다 익명포스트잇.

1. The primary 4 experimental submit boxes for Nice Britain have been put in in St Helier, Jersey on twenty third November 1852. This was adopted by three extra in Guernsey the next yr.
2. Set up for the mainland of Nice Britain started with submit boxes at Botchergate, Carlisle in September 1853.
3. The primary submit boxes have been hexagonal and painted darkish inexperienced; nevertheless designs various in several areas as every Publish Workplace District Surveyor had an enter into their manufacture and design.
4. 1859 saw the primary nationwide customary box. It had a protecting hood on the roof masking and a wire cage insert to include the mail. It additionally got here in 2 sizes and was accessible in purple or darkish inexperienced. On this yr an improved standardised wall box was launched – once more in purple or inexperienced. It was launched to the agricultural areas, because it had a porch over the aperture to protect the mail. Up till now rural prospects had needed to wait by the roadside for the Publish Workplace Messenger to gather their mail.
5. From 1874 all submit boxes have been painted a normal purple color to extend visibility.
6. In 1879 the straightforward cylindrical design was launched. By chance, all these made between 1879 and 1887 bear no royal cypher or crown; they solely had the makers’ name, “Handyside”. These have been known as the ‘nameless’ submit boxes.
7. In 1887 the ‘nameless’ boxes have been corrected and all new boxes carried the wording ‘POST OFFICE’ and the ‘VR’ cypher. The submit opening within the door was additionally enlarged, as beforehand it had been geared to small Victorian envelopes.
8. 1952 the ‘EIIR’ Publish Box, acquainted to those nonetheless seen at this time, was created.
9. In 1991 the wording ‘Royal Mail’ first began showing on British boxes, additional to modifications within the business.
10. Business submit boxes designed for franked mail have been launched in 1995.

In 2002 Royal Mail and English Heritage agreed a coverage for the retention of all operational letter boxes in present places, that means they can’t be moved except underneath distinctive circumstances.