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

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
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Thank you so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for hosting a #WorldBookDay debate in Westminster Hall yesterday!

She brilliantly outlined the benefits of reading for pleasure and how it can support bonding and attachment between a child and their caregiver. (1/4)

An illustration of a woman and child cuddling inside a book. Dark blue text on a yellow background says stories that connect us - the power of shared reading for children in foster care, kinship care and adoption.

It's #WorldBookDay, but did you know that reading can make a particular difference to children in kinship care, foster care and adoption?

Find out how in our new film #StoriesThatConnectUs, which features the words of real families.

Watch now: https://bit.ly/3MKWKtY

It's important to write hand-written letters to your friends when you need to send them something. Ideally while doing a bit. Maybe you're a union soldier, separated from your ladylove. Maybe a hot air balloon operator.

We mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us.

World Book Day 2026 – Ideas and Teaching Activities | National Literacy Trust Get ready for World Book Day 2026! Celebrate a love of books in school and at home with teaching resources, booklists, storytelling activities and more!

#WorldBookDay is coming! Are you planning activities in your classroom?

We've got teaching resources and activity ideas to help you champion reading this World Book Day - and meet key literacy outcomes across early years, primary and secondary.

Click through to discover: https://loom.ly/8o666J0

I learned so much from facilitating
@literacy-trust.bsky.social 'Building Vocabulary' training today with a fabulously disparate group of expert delegates, where a/Apple, o/Orange and o/Oyster (one for the London commuters) were referenced. 🙌🏾
#Etymology

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That's so kind, thank you. 🙌🏾

There’s a lot going on right now, but remember letters are a quiet and beautiful way to build relationships, and postboxes are the magical portals that help transport them. If you’re feeling a bit like this cat, click on #PostboxSaturday for the purrfect (sorry) antidote. 🥰📮🐱

Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box at the entrance to St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box partnered with a proper parcel box. They live outside Welling Library. 💌
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How can multimodal texts engage reluctant readers - from classroom to curriculum? This #NationalYearOfReading2026, join us at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for strategies to build the will & skill to read.

Book now: https://loom.ly/XlJocCc

Couldn’t let the 300th #PostboxSaturday go by without a little impromptu celebration at the original postbox. Some bubbly, red velvet cake and candles! The sun came out just at the right time as well as some friendly passersby. Thanks so much to everyone for joining in over the years. 😁📮🍾🎂🎉

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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Edward VII pillar box in Orpington with a Lovely topper that celebrates #ValentinesDay and encourages donations to the British Heart Foundation. 💌
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Happy 300th #PostboxSaturday from one of two octagonal VR pillar boxes featuring a vertical posting aperture in Framlingham, Suffolk. They celebrate their 170th birthdays this year! 💌🥳
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box still in service outside a former Post Office in East Dulwich. 💌
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box quietly doing its thing in suburban Shirley, on the border between Croydon and Bromley. 💌
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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! 😄📮👀🌍👍

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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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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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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Happy #PostboxSaturday, folks! It’s that time of the Christmas celebrations when I feel somewhere between Father Christmas on the left and the little boy on the right. Delighted to have remembered it’s Saturday! #Twixmas 😂🎄📮🍫🥧🛌👍

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this dual aperture ERII pillar box on Regent Street. 💌
@letterappsoc.bsky.social

It’s always magical to see a Christmas post box serving a school community. This one receives Christmas cards and letters to Santa from the children at Angel Oak Academy in Peckham. 💌
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‘Twas the #PostboxSaturday before Christmas, when all through the land
Not a happier event than from this merry band;
The pictures of postboxes to show that we care,
In hopes that these beauties will always be there.

Merry Christmas, everyone! 😁📮🎄🐭🧦🎅

A red postbox in a wall next to a telephone box. These are outside Edinburgh zoo.

We're sending our mail from the zoo
Postcards and Christmas cards too.
The penguins and pandas and sloths all send cheer
From Edinburgh at this special time of the year.

#postboxSaturday 💌📮🎄🐧🐼🦥

Celebrating @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ChristmasCardDay at one of the UKs oldest pillar boxes, an octagonal VR specimen with a vertical posting aperture. One of a pair installed in Framlingham, Suffolk in 1856. 💌🤶🏾
#PostboxSaturday

Who’s saving up Christmas cards to send on 9th December (next Tuesday) in celebration of #ChristmasCardDay and Sir Henry Cole? 🙋‍♂️🎄🎩📮🎉
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Signposting this Tuesday’s festive @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ChristmasCardDay at my nearest post box, a wonderful Victorian specimen. 🧑🏾‍🎄
I’ll be posting mine on the 9th but should you miss out, final dates are:
📮 17th Dec for 2nd class
📮 20th Dec for those who can afford 1st class
#PostboxSaturday 💌