It’s not such a foolish idea to suggest that using real licky pretty stamps might significantly increase your IQ. 😄💭😋✉️🤓 #AprilFoolsDay

Thank you for holding on for your membership pack if you’d recently joined The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. Was just waiting on some more badges… (100 in fact) 🤩✉️👍 @bestbadges.co.uk

Who’s on your #Easter card list this year? 😇📋🌸🐣⛪️🐰💌

This 6th of May is the 186th anniversary of #PennyBlackDay! Do save the date and send a letter on the day to help celebrate Sir Rowland Hill’s amazing invention. Fingers crossed Royal Mail will run a special postmark, but I got one of these made just in case… 🥳🎩✉️🎉

Spring Postbox Topper spotted in Sea Mills, Bristol. @letterappsoc.bsky.social #postboxsaturday #postbox #spring #chicks

Yesterday was #WorldTheatreDay, so here’s a dual aperture Edward VII pillar box on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s Theatreland. With stamp prices rising (again 😡) it’s the perfect place to post second class mail. 💌🎭 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

A box that is very special to me. Find out why next #PostboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

From the days of Queen Victoria, this little wallbox has been collecting letters of love and joy and sadness and scandal and boredom and worry and fun and all the news in-between, bringing the greatest of connection in the humblest of ways. Delighted to continue. #PostboxSaturday

Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! Pretty sure the postie who collects from this postbox at Cerne Abbas isn’t surprised to find lots of these postcards in there. No puns or play on words today - make up your own in your heads if you must! Lovely walk had by all. 😄📮😬🥾⛅️👍

Happy Friday, folks! I know I’m biased but letter writing and postboxes and cake through the post and friendly letters and pretty stamps and lovely posties with their letter prams and snail-mail gifts and pop-up cards and all things postal definitely help let the light in… ☀️💌

Still made up to think that Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo, is Member No. 855 of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. Thanks everso to Piece Of The Past Crafts for the fabulous stamps. I love them! #MembershipPacks 🤩📮🌳🌰

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day… and here’s hoping you all have some feel good post through your door! 😌🌅✉️

Anyone else still think about the Kit Williams book “Masquerade” nearly 50 years on? Reckon it’ll haunt me forever! Found a spooky resemblance at Hambledon Hill today, plus a nice old Post Office and postbox in the neighbouring village… 😄📗🐇👑📮

I often pass this box in my car on the way to Stirling or Glasgow but today I decided to stop and post a handwritten letter in it. A lovely Victorian wall box. Such joy. #PostBoxSunday @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

Anyone who has ever ordered a stamper from The English Stamp Company will understand how this happens… (here’s our page alone 👉 www.englishstamp.com/art-stamps/t...) 😍✉️❤️👍

Just a little montage of this week’s postal perambulations… #PostboxSaturday 😄📮❤️

The ruins of Corfe Castle must’ve felt like an act of vandalism back in 1646, so perhaps it’s fitting to have a vandalised postbox in one of the most picturesque villages in the UK. Zero scruples at Royal Mail. The Post Office is literally 10 metres away. #PostboxSaturday ☹️📮👎💔

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box opposite former public house The Grange in Thornton Heath. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy Friday, lovelies! Hope you have a nice evening! This is where you’ll find me… ☺️🍷🏠💌

@letterappsoc.bsky.social A postcard to my Dad from Rhosneigr on Anglesey. I always send him one when I go away. He's in a care home so rarely gets any post. A talking point for him with the staff ❤️ #postcard #postboxwednesday

Want to be a light in the dark? Send a letter. #LetterWritingShed ✉️🔦

While there’s real post there’s real people, plus the person in the post room at Lloyds Bank might quite like the pretty envelope and the Scratch ‘n’ Sniff sticker… 😄💌🍊🏦👍

I made these cute cards to send out this year

Who’s sending pretty #Easter cards this year? 🥰⛪️🐣🌸🌼🌷📮❤️

I’ve been trying to sort all the wonderful letters that have arrived at THLAS over the last 8 years and found some beautiful cards that may have missed the #DeskGallery. I hope one day someone finds them all and knows that letters still mattered in the 21st Century. ✉️

Love a legible postmark! Cherry blossom not quite there yet but nice to see blue sky over the Letter Writing Shed again this #MothersDay! Might see if I can work out all of Royal Mail’s postmarks for 2026 so far too… (because I’m very rock n roll) 😎✉️🌸☀️👍

May this #MothersDay be filled with many moments of missive magic! 😄🪄💌💐

Postal Paths postcard posing by #PostboxSaturday postbox. Pick up the paperback publication posthaste! 😁📮📗🗺️🥾 @postalpathsguy.bsky.social

Have a fab #PostboxSaturday, fellow postbox fanatics! May each one you frequent have a few letters found in them… 📮❤️

A postbox picture sent by a friend currently visiting Australia ! #postboxsaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

My camera roll is mainly photos of lovely letters, lovely postboxes, lovely stamps, and lovely gifts from lovely members. Lovely. 😁📮✉️🎁❤️

It’s always lovely whenever anyone joins The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, but a membership gifted for a birthday or special occasion is the cherry on top (or apple or strawberry). ☺️🧁🍒🍏🍓💌🎉

“Go digital!” they cry! “It’s completely safe!” they cry! I do use online banking cos there are no banks for miles but banking offline should always be an option. I liked popping down the Post Office to pay in cheques too but they stopped that as well. 😒✉️💷 #LloydsBank

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Cold and fresh woodsmoke spring air, the low rumble of traffic and the beautiful evening song of the blackbird up high 🐦‍⬛ Posting new home card to Italy & birthday card to a lovely ex-neighbour ✉️ @letterappsoc.bsky.social #postboxmonday

So lovely to receive my @letterappsoc.bsky.social welcome cert and badge yesterday, and a delightful handwritten letter (obvs) from Dinah.

Remember our pilgrimage to Westminster Abbey on the 185th anniversary of #PennyBlackDay to find Sir Rowland Hill? Please will you join me in writing to Royal Mail to see if they could help celebrate this year’s with a special postmark for the 6th May! Thanks everso! 😁🎩✉️🖤

I never post these Frankenstein monstrosities but it felt personal to see the trusty ERII pillar box on my local shopping parade undergoing the change this week. Frustrating, especially with a perfectly good Post Office nearby. 😢 #PostboxSaturday #SaveOurPostboxes @letterappsoc.bsky.social

@letterappsoc.bsky.social ❤️

Regent Street, London #PostboxSaturday

Two of the remaining four King George VI type C boxes withstand half hour walk of each other #postboxSaturday @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social

I recently finished a 3-month project transcribing letters and documents for an IWM / DCMS project marking the 80th anniversary of VE / VJ Day. It was a moving and fascinating project. Here are some of my lessons from the Letters to Loved Ones archive and links to letters I think you should read.

Wood you believe it! A dam fine postbox topper, if ever there was! Happy #PostboxSaturday all you eager beavers! 😁📮🦫🪵🎉

Just a few THLAS HQ snapshots from the last week or two… Keep writing those letters, folks! ☺️💌

Dam your eyes! It’s not the worst news in the world currently by far but it all just chips away, doesn’t it. We got our first victim today. Like a plague for postboxes. Photos two days apart. #SaveOurPostboxes 😱📮❌☹️

Hong Kong to Dorset in just 3 days! This must’ve ridden like the wind! #YearOfTheHorse 🤩✉️🐎🇭🇰🇬🇧

Whenever someone joins The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society it honestly makes me feel so proud that they want to be a part of our community to help keep handwritten letters alive for everyone. Thank you so much to all our wonderful members. 😌✉️✨

Letter writing is an effort. That’s the point. ✉️

Can’t be certain Mackenzie Crook ever got the wax-sealed letter I sent back in 2021 but delighted to see letter writing is an important part of the plot for his new series… #SmallProphets ☺️📺✉️🇨🇦

Happy #StDavidsDay from the Letter Writing Shed. Here’s hoping you all have someone to correspond some colour and comfort to this #LetterWritingSunday… ☺️✉️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💛