So few people send letters these days that I expect they'll take the post box away some time in the next few years. Then, we'll be left with a telegraph pole stump and the People of the Future will be thinking "whuh?".
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9:01am on Sunday, 4th January, 2026:
Weird
This post box in our village was put on a telegraph pole, but a few decades later the pole wasn't needed any more as they put the cables underground. They had to keep the bottom of the pole because it now had a post box attached to it.
So few people send letters these days that I expect they'll take the post box away some time in the next few years. Then, we'll be left with a telegraph pole stump and the People of the Future will be thinking "whuh?".
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