Hope you’ve all had a wonderful postal-themed-filled Christmas! A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a special day here at THLAS HQ with lettery gifts galore. You really are the loveliest. #DeskGallery #UpTheShed 😍🎄📮❤️

Merry Christmas, you brilliant band of letter writers! Wishing you all a lovely day whatever your plans. May your stockings forever be full of stationery and stamps! Warm wishes, Dinah and The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society 🥳✍️📮🎄🧦🎉

Youngest (looking at Christmas cards hung up everywhere): These aren’t really just from this year, are they? Me: Yes! Amazing, isn’t it! Thanks everso for all the joy you’ve sent to friends, family and THLAS HQ. Sir Henry Cole would be over the moon! #ChristmasCardDay 😁🎄📮🎉

Here’s to the 23rd Annual “have I remembered/spelt all the neighbours’ names correctly” Christmas Card Drop… #ChristmasCardDay 😄🎄🏠💌🤞

Completely bowled over by the beautiful Christmas cards people have sent from all over the world, their kind words about the Society, and all the lovely gifts too. Truly touched. Thank you so much. #ChristmasCardDay ☺️🎳🎄💌

Everyone wins with these Christmas cards. Still time to send some and support a great cause. Hand deliver to neighbours, local services, favourite shops, houses with pretty lights, if stamp costs prohibitive. #12DaysOfChristmas 🥰🎄💌

Xmas Lego's up

“Have you finished all your Christmas cards?” “No.” “Have you bought all the gifts you need?” “No.” “Are you sorted at all for Thursday?” “No, but I did put a Merry Christmas flag up above the Letter Writing Shed on a flagpole fashioned out of bamboo canes…” 😄🎄🚩🏠👍

Not sure what I’m most chuffed about. A Christmas card from Axel Scheffler, Axel using some of the lovely stampers he designed for us on his Christmas card, or the little “Nothing better than a letter” addition on the back… #ChristmasCardDay 🤩📮🎄❤️

“God bless the posties, every one!” This photo may look like a lovely coincidence, but no, after a little chat about Sir Henry Cole, #PostboxSaturday, and a throwaway “You can be in my photo if you like, haha!” he kindly walked very slowly up the path for me for the shot. 😁📮🎩❤️

#PostboxSaturday My favourite cypher @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

It’s always magical to see a Christmas post box serving a school community. This one receives Christmas cards and letters to Santa from the children at Angel Oak Academy in Peckham. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

‘Twas the #PostboxSaturday before Christmas, when all through the land Not a happier event than from this merry band; The pictures of postboxes to show that we care, In hopes that these beauties will always be there. Merry Christmas, everyone! 😁📮🎄🐭🧦🎅

Another beautiful postcard that arrived today is from @letterappsoc.bsky.social .Even the envelope is special. Thank you very much Dinah. And the advent calendar was my pleasure.

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Anyone have one last Christmas card they fancy sending to the CEO of Postnord Denmark to mark this tragic and terrible end of an era? Sadly no more letter deliveries for the Danish after 2025. #PromoteLetters ☹️📮🇩🇰💔

To all those born in December, thanks for the excuse to send other pretty cards too… 🥳💌🎉

Looks like Sir Henry has been at the Croft’s Original… (don’t know why I thought I could line it up!) 😄🎄🥂🫨💌

Haven’t seen the dining table for days! But more importantly thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has gifted stamps to THLAS this year. So kind and very much appreciated. #ChristmasCardDay 😁🍽️🎄✉️❤️

I will probably be the last person to stop sending them... my gran always said that the Christmas cards on the wall... are all your friends and family... who can't be with you... sharing your Christmas together...

Red postbox at night, posties’ delight! Another batch of Christmas cards that went out yesterday evening together with more beautiful ones arriving at THLAS HQ. Thanks everso to all the senders and Sir Henry Cole for helping to put the cheer back into Christmas! 😄🎄📮🌇🎉

Don’t ever think Christmas cards aren’t worth sending. Not sure you could measure all the joy and warmth they bring, so you’re just going to have to trust me that it’s enormous. Even if you send just the one. Last posting today for 2nd Class (87p). #ChristmasCardDay ☺️🎄📮

Postage stamps. Cheaper than therapy and both writer and recipient benefit. ✉️

Even the smallest of cards brings the greatest of joy... Keep sending them to your friends and loved ones, folks! (Uniball eye micro for scale) 😄💌🔍✒️📏

Well, it’s not the 50 Christmas cards I had envisaged writing today but it’s a start and the night is still young… #MondayMotivation #ChristmasCardDay 😁🎄✍️✉️🌃

A huge thank you for all the Christmas cards that have arrived at THLAS HQ! 1) There are so many lovely people in the world. 2) There are so many beautiful cards available. 3) The tradition of sending them is still very much happening! #ChristmasCardDay 🥰🎄📮🌏❤️

Agreed, matching stamper and Christmas card is very magical! Absolutely thrilled our stampers are out there bringing so much joy to the world (from personal experience)… #ChristmasCardDay 🤩🪄📮☃️❤️

Made me properly chuckle seeing our Right Royal Christmas stamper arrive at THLAS HQ this morning. Bowled over by the number of cards that have been sent by you lovely lot. Will get organised and share photos of all the amazing designs. Thank you so much! #ChristmasCardDay 🤩💌🎄

Celebrating @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ChristmasCardDay at one of the UKs oldest pillar boxes, an octagonal VR specimen with a vertical posting aperture. One of a pair installed in Framlingham, Suffolk in 1856. 💌🤶🏾 #PostboxSaturday

In a country lane in Dorset #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

Happy #PostboxSaturday, folks! Can’t help thinking this old postbox missed its vocation… #MyOldMansADustman 😄📮🗑️❤️

Delighted that #SocietyCuppa Number One of Six is heading to a “Tulloch” in Scotland. (If you’ve been watching #Shetland you’ll understand) #TravelsWithMyMug 🤩📺🕵️‍♀️☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

Happy birthday to our wonderful member and supporter, Axel Scheffler! I can’t tell you how lovely it is to receive cards with our selection of stampers adorning the envelopes. (Beautiful original painted card from Kim) 🥳💌🎉

Six Society mugs living in the shed, Six Society mugs living in the shed, But if one Society mug goes by post instead, There’ll be five Society mugs living in the shed…🎶 (Comes with a teabag and a Christmas card) UK only (sorry) #SocietyCuppa ☺️☕️📦📮 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/shop

As we were there and as Emmeline Pankhurst shared the same birthday and resting place as Sir Henry Cole, we thought it only right to leave a Christmassy wreath and card on her grave to say thank you yesterday too. #ChristmasCardDay 😌🎄💜🤍💚

Always so grateful for all the cards and gifts that arrive at THLAS HQ. It was extra special to come home from visiting Sir Henry Cole at Brompton Cemetery to a big bundle of post on #ChristmasCardDay, and then to get another big bundle today. Thanks everso, lovely people. 🥰📮🎄💖

We made it! So nice to pay our respects to Sir Henry Cole and leave a Christmas wreath for him as a thank you. Also huge thanks to eldest for accompanying her eccentric mum on our “day out” to London Town for #ChristmasCardDay. Loved seeing all your card sending too! 😄🎩🎄📮❤️

Letters on watermarked paper have to be in the Top 10 of romantic items, don’t they? Also, 1) how do paper mills do that, and 2) imagine never having held a sheet of paper up to the light and been all “Oh, look at that!” 😍☀️📄💭

A big push today to get the last of the membership packs in the post so they arrive for Christmas. No Mary and Joseph puns intended, but I did find the perfect Christmassy placename for them in my THLAS (aka AA) road atlas. Can you spot it? #LetterWritingSunday 😌🔎🗺️✨🫏🎄💌

Did you know next Tuesday 9 December is #ChristmasCardDay?

My first Charles III postbox! Spotted in Castleford, West Yorkshire this week. Stopped the car to go back for a photo. Such a geek 😂🤦 #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Lovely to see such an old postbox tucked away down a side street. #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our stamper giveaway! Because there was such a lovely response I picked two winners at random from across the socials and those who had emailed me. Congratulations to Member No. 595 and No. 1066! 🥳📮🎉

Who’s saving up Christmas cards to send on 9th December (next Tuesday) in celebration of #ChristmasCardDay and Sir Henry Cole? 🙋‍♂️🎄🎩📮🎉 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/lets-make-ch...

Happy 230th Birthday to Sir Rowland Hill, inventor of the postage stamp! May your stamps only ever be fractionally wonky… (sorry) 🥳✉️📐🎉

One also wishes for a good sense of humour… #ChristmasCardDay 😁💌👀🎄🤞

Felt very humbled as I went to the postbox this evening that quite a few folk had gifted membership to The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society for Christmas. It’s always an honour to be a part of someone’s special day. Thanks so much to everyone for believing in THLAS. 🥰🎁🎄

If you have forgotten your membership number or not received it yet, email [email protected] and I can let you know what it is and/or enter your name in the draw. ☺️💭⌨️🗳️👍

To celebrate reaching 2,000 members we have a THLAS stamper giveaway! Put your membership number in the comments and a winner will be picked on 5th December. The winner can decide which of the ones pictured below they would like... #THLAS2000 🥳🎁🎉

And so she went up to her little Letter Writing Shed by the light of the moon and wrote welcoming letters and Christmas cards and drank bubbly from a teacup and lived happily ever after… #THLAS2000 #UpTheShed #LetterWritingSunday #ChristmasCardDay 😌✍️✉️🏠✨