Post Box - Gallery of Post Boxes From Around The World

Gallery of Post Boxes From Around The World

  • A Guernsey Post type C double aperture pillar box

  • Pillar box in Bruges, Belgium

  • Post box in Quebec city, Canada

  • Post box in Macau, China with Cantonese & Portuguese text

  • A Czech post box

  • Post box incorporated into a Type K4 telephone kiosk, introduced in 1927. 10 survive in the UK of this design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott which also incorporates two stamp vending machines. This red telephone box is in Warrington, Cheshire, England

  • A Victorian wall box of the Second National Standard type dating from 1859, in Brough, Derbyshire, England

  • A post box in Funningur, Faroe Islands

  • Post boxes in Heinola, Finland. Orange 2nd class postbox is very common, blue 1st class mailboxes only at selected places.

  • French Post Box at Ile de Bréhat

  • French Post Box at Dinard airport

  • German mail box with an old Post horn with arrows (stylized lightning bolts) from the Deutsche Bundespost, on the top sign the new post horn from Deutsche Post AG

  • A postbox of one the many private mail companies in Germany, this one PIN in Berlin

  • Singapore AA style sheet metal mail box in Hong Kong

  • Budapest, Hungary

  • Post box in Reykjavik, Iceland

  • Post box mounted on an electric pole in Bangalore, India

  • Post box of Indian Postal Service

  • VR pillar box in Kilkenny, Ireland, painted green with obvious door repair

  • Irish lamp box erected by An Post

  • Italian domestic post box

  • Japanese post box at the Osaka Central Post Office

  • A Polish post box

  • Krakow, Poland

  • A post box in San Marino

  • Post box in Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Swedish post box

  • Post box in Lützelflüh-Goldbach, Switzerland

  • A Ukrainian post box in the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

  • In Chellaston, Derby, United Kingdom

  • A Victorian hexagonal red post box of the Penfold type manufactured in 1866 outside King's College, Cambridge (not the original location for this box).

  • One of the 150 post boxes erected during the uncrowned reign of Edward VIII

  • British Edward VII Type A pillar box of 1902 by A.Handyside of Derby in front of Mansfield College, Oxford

  • An R2-D2 themed post box in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the celebration for Star Wars' 30th anniversary

  • U.S. post box in front of the Post Office in Conneaut, Ohio

  • Bukhara, Uzbekistan

  • A standard British lamp letter box mounted on a post in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, Wales

  • Large square pillar box (type A wall box freestanding) in Gloddaeth Street, Llandudno, Wales

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