If by mood music you mean listening to Judy Collins on a Sunday then guilty as charged! Otherwise, no, I wasn't familiar with the phenomenon before reading your article.

Zonking great weirdo (him not you!). Seems to be the perfect complement to contemporary America.

I'm going to sound horrendously middle-aged and miserable but I never liked audio podcasts full stop. And when they started filming themselves doing the podcast that just added another layer of self-importance and self-regard. Still the written word for me.

Unfortunately not. Researching the history of postboxes would be so much easier if they did (though probably less fun). Years only appear on some, but not all, cast iron pillar boxes from the 90's and 00's

Hope they weren't being sold as genuine items! Both are modern copies

Yes, Edward VII

My own particular postbox speciality (see profile photo!)
I'll send you a postcard when I'm next there

Love to see it

You can just make out "LUNDY POST" above the aperture

It wasn't quite. Wall boxes came in a little later

Very good Danny. But gotta ask who is Henry XIII (13th)? 😉