Hi guys, I’ve set up Login • Instagram to collate all these fantastic pictures of postboxes from around the world (and your interesting anecdotes about them). If you’re cool having the pic of your postbox posted, you can reply to the thread and mention me @shermint or drop me a DM.
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Where the postbox is located
This is going to be fun! Looking forward to y’all’s participation
Was posting a couple of cards today and it struck me to take a picture of my postbox and post office where I’ve mailed countless postcards. And here it is:
Cheboksary, Russia
There is a street mailbox near my house. This photo was taken a year ago, when the weather was horrible. Usually it’s OK, not like in this photo.
But I found it with open bottom several times. Besides that, in summer it once took three weeks to deliver my postcard within the city, so I’m not sure the mailbox is emptied every day, as it is written on it.
So now I prefer to have a walk to the main post office to send my postcards. There there is a huge mailbox. This photo was taken on 2nd October.
This is one of two mailboxes that exist near(ish) to me. I do not put my mail in it though. I take it to the post office. There are no mail slots or anything inside there, so I hand it across the counter to the person working.
I mean, I have used it. But it was rare that I was able to get a photo of it without trash and cigarette butts stuffed into the slot. So you get the idea. Also, the other one like it was one day just … gone. They took it off the pole and … ? I don’t know. Besides, you’re not saving anything by putting mail inside there since the only place I’ve ever seen them is literally outside the door of a post office.
Republic of China (Taiwan) Chunghwa Post,
Left: ATM postage vending machine,
Middle: Green Letter Box for domestic mails,
Right: Red Box for Express Delivery, and International Mails.
Wow! Such a great topic! Thank you for this idea! It’s really interesting to have a look at different mailboxes from all over the world
They are so different!