This is a note from Oscar Wilde written to someone inviting them round to his house in Tite Street. He obviously dashed it off as there are a couple of ink blots. And the invitation is pretty terse “ no dress”. Signed just OW. My late husband bought it for me as I loved OW & lived in Tite Street.

I’m guessing sending clogs to the Netherlands is the same as carrying coals to Newcastle… 😄🇳🇱💌

Need a castle? Royal Mail have you covered… ☺️🏰💌

Please can you tell me a little something you find lovely about letter writing. It can be anything from pretty stationery, a treasured letter from a loved one, a note from someone famous, a new pen, or a chance to unplug. Just to brighten the day. Thanking you kindly… ☺️✍️✉️

If any members of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society would like one of our new badges click on the link to find out how to get one… 😁✉️🎉 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/new-society-...

Visitor attraction ➡️ cup of tea ➡️ gift shop ➡️ postcards (pretty stamps if possible) ➡️ postbox. What other way is there? 😄🏛️☕️🛍️📮❤️

Thanks everso for once again making my #DeskGallery in the Letter Writing Shed a reminder that there are many many sweet, kind, caring, generous souls out there. A beautiful collection of cards from English Country Gardens to lovely Summer Holidays, home or abroad. 🥰😎🌺🌼✈️🎶💌

Happy #Caturday, folks! Still bowled over that member, Axel Scheffler (Gruffalo illustrator), drew a series of stampers for us to help raise funds for The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. Here’s the link if anybody would like to see them… 😻💌 www.englishstamp.com/art-stamps/t...

Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box at Deptford Broadway, close to where the ancient Watling Street crosses the River Ravensbourne. The modern name is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon for ‘deep ford’.💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

#PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

When a friend sends a postbox photo from on holiday and you think it’s ginormous until you see the second picture! Happy #PostboxSaturday to everyone, big and small! 😄📮🔎💛

Huge thanks to all the wonderful posties delivering our precious letters in the sunny weather. All us letter writers really appreciate you. Thanks so much. 😎🥰✉️☀️🩳❤️

Happy Monday, everyone! May a lovely post van always only ever be a few metres away bringing someone messages of cheer! #PostVanMonday 😁🚘✉️🎉

Happy #PostboxSaturday, mes amis! You decide which is the Nice-est… (thanks to eldest for spotting these in France for me) 🤩📮🇫🇷❤️

Select all the boxes that contain a postbox to confirm you’re not a robot. Better still, post a letter in them… 😄📮✅🤖👍

But without handwritten letters what treasured communication is there? ✉️

A lovely member once described these as screwtop postboxes and now I can’t unsee it. The “improvements” kind of give the same energy… #PostboxSaturday 😬📮👍

Wood you believe it! What a tree-mendous idea! I’m almost stumped for words. A totally log-ical use of the old fell-a, and maybe a new branch of #PostboxSaturday postboxes! What a sight for saw eyes! (I’m here all week!) 😂📮🌳🪚🪵👍

Happy 318th #PostboxSaturday, fellow postbox admirers! I will never get bored of the idea that Victorians used to use this postbox, nor the thought of all those thousands of letters over the years carrying news, slipped through the slot and dispersed around the world. ☺️📮🎩❤️

Nice postcards, pretty stamps, postbox pens, happy sigh. 💌

Feeling a bit gargoyle? Hang in there, lovelies, the weekend is very near! Happy Friday, everyone! ☺️🏛️💌

Shetland postbox @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Lovely topper #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Trying not to take it personally. Might not buy into corporate group-think but we do try and encourage people to use Royal Mail and buy their products (stamps) on a daily basis. Least they could do is save our profile pic postbox from this nonsense. #PostboxSaturday 😒📮💔

To mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day here is a King George VI postbox in Oxford. I have the great honour of gardening for one of the last D-Day Veterans, Peter Lovett aged 101, pictured centre with the late Lee Wrake and Cliff Brown in 2015. #PostboxSaturday #DDay82 🥰📮🎖️🌹

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box by Eden Park Railway Station. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

The beauty of letters is the privacy of them. The one-to-one-ness. Sealed words from writer to recipient… ☺️🔏✉️

Always lovely to have a bundle of letters to post from our letter writing stand at an event. These were from the Thomas Hardy Victorian Fair. Next stop, Swanage Carnival! Yeehaw! 🤠🐮📮❤️

Happy #DorsetDay, everyone! What about making it a nationwide #CountyDay tradition to send a postcard to someone in a different county? It could be fun! #CountyPostcardDay 🥳📮💛 britishcountyflags.com/county-days/

Thanks to everyone who came by our stand today at the Dorset Museum as part of the Thomas Hardy Victorian Fair. Such lovely inspiring and uplifting chats about all things letter writing. And in such a magnificent setting with Roman mosaics on the floor! 🥰🎩✉️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian wall box outside St John’s Railway Station in Lewisham, which opened on 1st June 1873. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Cypherless and debadged entirely is this week's entry for #PostboxSaturday somewhere in #Salford @letterappsoc.bsky.social #letters #coulddowithalickofpaint 😂

It was a particularly special week, but any week with pretty postboxes, cards, postal books, Happy Meals with postboxes on, Post Office ornaments, fun envelopes, lots of postcards to send, and Gruffalo displays are always going to be lovely. Have a fab #PostboxSaturday, folks! 🎉

To encourage a bit of letter sending on #PostboxSaturday, shall we make the last Saturday of each month #SendARecipeSaturday? A chance to swap favourite recipes and to feed a postbox at the same time? Could be fun! (and tasty) ☺️📝🧁🍰🥘🥙📮👍

Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! Postboxes in the mountains are some of my favourites. ☺️📮⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

I-Spy with my little eye A warm and full heart On a cloud way up high! 🥰🕵️‍♀️☕️☁️9️⃣ A huge thanks to all you beautiful letter writers and card-senders whose kindness and thoughtfulness really do make the world a happier place. Bowled over to come home to even more loveliness. 💌

Thank you so much you lovely lot for making my birthday extra special. A birthday banner up a mountain, post and treats and kindness galore, sweet messages, 54 cards from eldest and glorious sunny weather! Truly grateful. 🥰✉️⛰️❤️

This Sunday, 31st May, Dorchester, 11am til 4pm, is the Thomas Hardy Victorian Fair. We’ll be there bringing good old-fashioned letter writing to the masses as part of our #HandwrittenLetterRevival. Loads to see and do! Hope you can join us! ☺️🎩🖋️✉️🎪 discoverdorchester.co.uk/whats-on/tho...

It’s the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, so here’s a Victorian pillar box off the King’s Road. 💌🌺 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday

About to catch a bus and had to stop to enjoy this box #postboxsaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Going on a road trip and being excited mainly about finding new postboxes to use… Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! Hope you’ve all had a sunny one! 🤩😎☀️📮❤️

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.” (William Butler Yeats) Gotta love a pretty stamp, hey… #philately ☺️✉️❤️

A Queen Victoria stamp posted in a Queen Victoria postbox by a Queen Victoria birthday buddy. A Queen Victoria hat-trick, of sorts… 😄📮👑🎩🎉

If they’re going to film at local beauty spots they have to accept Ryan Gosling is going to get a beautiful local card in the post… #DurdleDoor #projecthailmary 🤩🪨🎬📮👍

To reimburse me for our #PennyBlackDay competition I asked the lovely owner of Pigeon Posted if it was possible to have payment by pigeons. Delighted to get a beautiful bundle of Jackie Morris birds in the post! Thanks so much, John! 🥰✉️🪶🎉

Just to let you know that membership will be closed from 18th May until 1st June. All outstanding packs will of course be processed. Thanks everso, Dinah ☺️✉️☀️

What sort of a week is it even that doesn’t include letters sent and letters received and pretty cards and beautiful stationery and Winnie-the-Pooh postcards and new notebooks and packets of Squashies (they made it) and celebrating great Victorians and the Letter Writing Shed? ✉️

Thanks for holding on if you’re waiting for a membership pack. It occurred to me yesterday that sticking stamps on envelopes was like curating a mini art gallery. Also I love our UK addresses, but how cool that someone joined today from a place in the US called Defiance. 🥰✉️🇺🇸💪

Posing as a knitted topper on my lovely GvR Hovis #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Saw this on my way to pick up my Hovis. There was one each end of the bridge. #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social