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

Haven't posted anything for #PostboxSaturday for a while but couldn't resist this nice Edward VII pillar box on the corner of Calvert Lane in #Hull #Yorkshire @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

“Take 2!” with the sweet ducky stamps and ducky topper! Happy #PostboxSaturday, folks! 🥰📮🦆🎬

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England… Beautiful postboxes too! Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! #Shakespeare #Oxford 😍📮🏛️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from our recent trip to the beautiful greek island of #Kefalonia. Taken on day one of our visit before discovering the marvellous local Post Office. I did post in the box later in the week. 🇬🇷✉️📮📯 @letterappsoc.bsky.social @thewritingweb.bsky.social @greece.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box that was planted on The Webb Estate in Purley at the time the village was established. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

What are your memories of the Silver Jubilee back in 1977? Mine are colouring in Union Jacks and not wanting to be Old Mother Hubbard at the village party. (At least I wasn’t a tree) 😄📮🇬🇧🖍️👑👵🐶🦴🌳🎉

“Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helter-skelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts.” (Nick Bantock) ✉️

Delighted to see our piece in the Writing Equipment Society’s latest edition. Thanks so much to the team there for including it. 🤩📰🖋️✉️🎉

It’s #PostboxSaturday and this week’s offerings is this delightful G VI R wall box built into the wall of the Palace in Peterborough’s Cathedral Close.

#postboxsaturday Exciting day ahead. Too many boxes to post. @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who made #PennyBlackDay so special again this year. It’s felt like a whole week of celebrations! Just a little montage of life at THLAS HQ and all the lovely Penny Black Day post that arrived and was sent to mark the occasion… #PostboxSaturday ☺️📮🎩❤️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box in Lewisham. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Pray tell, kind gentlefolk, but what other genuine fully functioning and accessible museum pieces, some over 100 years old, can you find and use on the streets of this great country? Here’s a selection of the best sort I know, just from Oxford alone. #PostboxSaturday 🤩📮 londonist.com/london/histo...

There’s a little #PennyBlackDay lock-in at Mrs Goggins’ celebrating these clever works of art if you can make it… #ThreeCheersForRowland 🥳🎩🖼️✉️🍻🎉

Thanks so much to everyone who took part in #PennyBlackDay to celebrate the day postage stamps were first used 186 years ago, and to help fill our beloved postboxes with lots of lovely letters! You’re the best! #ThreeCheersForRowland 🥳📮🎩👏

Thought I would spend some time going through my stamp collection today. Here are my mint penny blacks. #PennyBlackDay @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Wrote a few letters and cards to send out today on #PennyBlackDay, although the day is still young… #ThreeCheersForRowland 🥳✍️✉️🎩📮🎉 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/help-celebra...

Happy #PennyBlackDay, everyone! A day to celebrate Rowland Hill’s amazing invention by sending a letter via these postbox stalwarts that quietly stand among us, some since Victorian times. Let’s put a letter in every one and make Rowland proud! 🥳✍️📮🎩🎉

"Illustration is art with a job to do" - Sir Quentin Blake

Weekend membership packs are good to go! Thank you so much to everyone who has joined as well as gifted membership to friends and loved ones. Currently 2,156 members in 44 countries! Beyond delighted! Happy Tuesday, everyone! 🤩✉️❤️

And if you can’t afford a stamp (only 91p for anywhere in the UK) there’s a FREEPOST address for Royal Mail’s current main man if you still wanted to take part in the #PennyBlackDay celebrations tomorrow. (That’s a sticker, not a stamp) ☺️🎩✉️👍

What a guy! Are you ready to celebrate #PennyBlackDay tomorrow? It’s really easy to take part! #ThreeCheersForRowland 😍✉️🎩🍷🎉 (photo from yesterday evening!)

To thank lovely members for their kind support of THLAS, we want to pay it forward and offer the chance to win one of three free memberships for #PennyBlackDay. Just comment #ThreeCheersForRowland with an emoji of your choice below. Winners picked on 6th May! 🥰🎩✍️✉️📜📣👏🖋️📮🎉

Happy #LetterWritingSunday, folks! So much happiness, fun and connection to be had in a world of letter writing, stamps and postboxes… #PostboxSaturday #PennyBlackDay 😁📮✉️📸🎉

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box in suburban Orpington. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

A postbox that's getting taken over by nature!!!! ##postboxsaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Roll up, roll up, #PostboxSaturday is in town! No clowning around, the next postbox topper has some big shoes to fill! 😄📮🤡👞🎈🧶❤️

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our #PennyBlackDay competition in collaboration with Pigeon Posted. Congratulations to our winner, Jackie! Bowled over by the response across the socials. Thanks everso again! Dinah 🥳📮🎩🐦🎉

Royal Mail posties. In many ways members of an unofficial emergency service coming to the rescue with lovely letters and boxes of fudge, helping life feel less of a rollercoaster… (Thanks everso, Scotty, for activating them!) ☺️🚨🎢💌

Happy May Day, everyone! May your day be full of amazing mail! 😄🌸🌿✉️

It’s #PennyBlackDay on 6th May! Do join us in celebrating this incredible invention! More information via the link… 🥳🎩📮🎉 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/help-celebra...

Also, if you wanted to get a pack of Pigeons or a stamper to be certain to have them to celebrate #PennyBlackDay, go to the Pigeon Posted website to see all the beautiful designs and/or click the link for The English Stamp Co website. ☺️🎩✉️ www.englishstamp.com/product/thla...

To celebrate Penny Black Day next week we’ve got together with the wonderful Pigeon Posted for a fab giveaway! To be entered in the draw for a pack of Pigeons, a PBD stamper and some Queen Victoria stamps just add “#PennyBlackDay 🎩✉️” in the comments. Winner picked on 1st May! 🎉

Spot the difference… (also had a lovely reward for making an effort to get to the early postbox - will share on #PostboxSaturday) 😄📮👍

What happiness and hope exists in cards received and those to send. May your week ahead be full of both! Thank you so much for all that arrive at THLAS HQ. #DeskGallery 💌

A little update and heartfelt thanks regarding our PO Box address… 😊📮🎉

Happy #PostboxSaturday from a sunny Castleford, West Yorks. Spotted this lovely little Elizabeth II box just round the corner from the Cas Tigers ground. Princess Street seems appropriate @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

A Sat(suma) mandarin orange that a-peels to letter writers? (I tried) #PostboxSaturday 😂📮🍊

Save the date, people! Let’s make it a letter writing and sending day to remember! Let’s make Rowland proud too! Exciting news to follow soon… #PennyBlackDay 🥳✉️🎩

Delighted to add The Bahamas to our list of countries where members of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society come from. 44 and counting! 🥳🇧🇸✉️🌴🌎 Credit to this fab website for the image: commonwealthstampsopinion.blogspot.com/2026/03/2880...

Happy #PostboxSaturday and #Koningsdag (King’s Day, celebrated on the 27th April) from this Dutch post box in Amsterdam. 💌🇳🇱 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #Oranjegekte

Drinking game, anyone? In my defence it was meant to be a sweet photo of a ducky stamp with a ducky postbox topper… (Note to self: remember glasses) #PostboxSaturday 😂😬🙊👓🦆📮🍻

Happy #PostboxSaturday, postbox people! Thanks so much to The Letter Box Study Group for the fab mention in their special Golden Jubilee Edition newsletter! 😁📮🎉

#postboxthursday @letterappsoc.bsky.social ❤️🧚‍♀️