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Going postal in London

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If you have a letter to mail in the U.K., you’ll find one of these red pillar boxes on most any street.

      

Part one: there’s a lot of red stuff
Like the red double-decker bus and the iconic red telephone box, a red mailbox is ubiquitous in Great Britain. Americans call it a mailbox, while in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and former nations of the British Empire, it’s more often called a post box or a letter box. This story is about British post boxes and the huge rabbit hole I fell down once I began to pay attention to them.

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