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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society
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To inspire people to write handwritten letters to each other. #PostboxSaturday
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Let’s make 2026 the year of the letter. Feel inspired, send a letter. Feel grateful, send a letter. Feel hope, send a letter. Feel lost or numb, send a letter. Be it to a friend, loved one, actor, author, MP, business leader, whoever you want. Just know, letters still matter. ✉️
Always lovely when friends pop by the Letter Writing Shed for a little drinky-poo… Happy Saturday, everyone! 😄🍻💌👍
January 17, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Life is littered with lemons. Let letters lighten the load. 🍋💌
January 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
A beautifully decorated envelope from Emily is just the thing to bring a smile on #PostboxSaturday! 🥰📮❤️
January 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Rest assured, no-one need ever feel left alone on #PostboxSaturday. There are loads of us out and about around the world capturing photos of our local postboxes in celebration of these beautiful iconic historic magical postal portals. Join us! 😄📮👀🌍👍
January 17, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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BIG Thanks to the lovely postie who paused his deliveries on a drizzly day in Welling to snap me making use of this George V pillar box. 💌
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January 17, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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Ha, great stuff. #PostboxSaturday didn’t officially start until May 2020 but well done for forward planning! 😂📮👍 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/adventures-i...
January 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Truly touched that we’ve had 22 new members in just 4 days. Thank you so much for believing in letter writing and The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. Find me up here in my Letter Writing Shed over the next few days writing welcoming letters. ☺️✍️✉️✨
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
If you’re feeling a bit Eeyore or like your days are all a muddle (it should say WED), send a letter and cheer two people up in one go (that’s you and the recipient). It works, I promise. #YearOfTheLetter 🫏✉️✨☺️
January 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Promise to visit me in The Tower, yes? It’s not to The King if that helps, and it’s only because I still need distracting from those ugly barcodes… #NoToCodes #YearOfTheLetter 😂😬🏰📮🤖👍
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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When was the last time you sent a letter by snail mail, and was it handwritten?
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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“Three things bear mighty Sway with Men,
The Sword, the Scepter, and the PEN”

And if your handwriting is as rusty as mine, here’s a page from my copy of The Universal Penman by writing master and engraver George Bickham the Elder (1684–1758), a writing guide with a multitude of styles.
January 12, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Please join me this year in sharing photos of letters sent, to celebrate the #YearOfTheLetter and to inspire and encourage the world to keep writing and sending them! (Be careful not to show addresses, obvs) Thanks everso! Dinah 🥳✉️📮🎉
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
It’s the first #PostboxSaturday since we took all the decorations down so here are the 57 (of 165!) that had a postbox on including the knitted one now on the blanket my late Gran and I made for up in the Letter Writing Shed. Huge thanks for all the #ChristmasCardDay love! 🥰📮🎄
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from my favourite pillar box - the lesser spotted Teddy the Seventh of Tobermory looking dapper in his snow beret before sunrise earlier this week. 💌
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January 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Divert all attention to these beautiful iconic historic postboxes that carry our precious letters helping to open up the world around us like nothing else. Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! (Thanks to Julie for the photo too!) 😁📮👈🔓❤️
January 10, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Letters. For building bridges, not walls. (Although I do like a nice brick wall too, if I’m honest) 😄🌉🧱💌
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
🎶So I say thank you for the thank yous, the post you’re sending
Thanks for all the joy unending
Who can live without them? I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a card or a note, what are we?
So I say thank you for the thank yous, so lovely, honestly… #ABBA 😁✉️❤️
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
A quiet read of a long letter from an old friend you haven’t seen for several years is a beautiful thing. I wish you all the same. 💌
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
The first Monday in January can always feel a bit lacking until you remember all the posties out and about on their rounds again delivering lovely letters with the possibility of one arriving at your door. (And if one doesn’t, send one instead to help keep the hope alive) ☺️✉️✨
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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As I was in Lymington over New Year it would be rude not to take a picture of a letterbox! @letterappsoc.bsky.social #postboxsaturday #benainslie #Olympicgold #sailing
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Celebrating the first #PostboxSaturday of 2026 by travelling back in time to my visit to #London after @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social I stopped by the nearest Post Office who only had Christmas stamps but I made it work! 📮📯

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January 3, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Nice Scottish pillar box for the first #PostboxSaturday of 2026. Ferry terminal in Brodick #IsleOfArran Don't know the date, as no royal cypher, but the casting says it was made by Machan Engineering Scotland. Nice little 'next collection' casting detail too @lbsg.org @letterappsoc.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Teeny tiny letters & cards this weekend ❤️💚🤍
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
When husband sends you a photo of a fab postbox topper and then you find a lovely quote that encapsulates #PostboxSaturday and all the people who join in, to match. ☺️📮🐶❤️
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Happy New Year from this anonymous pillar box: a Victorian era contemporary of traditional backstreet boozer The Olde Apple Tree in Peckham, built in 1871. 💌
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January 3, 2026 at 1:57 AM