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In 2025, the state-run service announced the decision to stop delivering letters in addition to the elimination of 1,500 jobs in Denmark and the removal of 1,500 red postboxes, The Guardian reported.
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Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 1 Jan. 2026
Union Jacks flap gently in the breeze; a golden slither of evening sun drapes a row of cottages; a red postbox, still bearing the initials of the late Queen, stands outside a village church, bathed in the fading light.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Knitting woolly postbox toppers, popular in the United Kingdom, in the shape of soldiers and tanks.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
If this was somewhat unclear, a postbox of the committee is assumed to be a thenar burma.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate met her family — Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — outside to walk into the event together...but first, her children made an important stop at a red postbox to mail letters to kids who might be struggling this year.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
In a way, those traditions continue today; Olympic winners hailing from Great Britain can receive stamps featuring their image and the postbox of their hometown in gold.
—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
On the evening of February 9, just as voting began in a pivotal campaign to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the United States Postal Service bowed to pressure by Amazon management to install a special postbox on their premises to collect union votes.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021
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Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 1 Jan. 2026
Union Jacks flap gently in the breeze; a golden slither of evening sun drapes a row of cottages; a red postbox, still bearing the initials of the late Queen, stands outside a village church, bathed in the fading light.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Knitting woolly postbox toppers, popular in the United Kingdom, in the shape of soldiers and tanks.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
If this was somewhat unclear, a postbox of the committee is assumed to be a thenar burma.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate met her family — Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — outside to walk into the event together...but first, her children made an important stop at a red postbox to mail letters to kids who might be struggling this year.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
In a way, those traditions continue today; Olympic winners hailing from Great Britain can receive stamps featuring their image and the postbox of their hometown in gold.
—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
On the evening of February 9, just as voting began in a pivotal campaign to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the United States Postal Service bowed to pressure by Amazon management to install a special postbox on their premises to collect union votes.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021
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“Postbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postbox. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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