Royal Mail Upgrades Postboxes to Accommodate Parcels
2025-04-12
Royal Mail CEO Emma Gilthorpe announced an upgrade to UK postboxes to allow parcel posting, aiming to maximize customer convenience amidst declining letter volumes and booming parcel deliveries. Now, parcels fitting the postbox and bearing a barcode label can be dropped into any postbox. This follows a successful trial in Jersey and Guernsey. Britain's first pillar boxes, introduced in 1853, lacked standardization until 1859 when two sizes of green cylindrical postboxes were adopted.
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