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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 16, 2012 at 9:14pm

But there are many amazing post boxes in that village...

some very clean and some very rusty! All very artsy!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 16, 2012 at 9:13pm

Go chicago Bulls! ( In France?)!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 16, 2012 at 6:56pm

Another Bonjour to all You Happy Post Box Boys and Girls! Here's some more -- from the villages of Portel-des Corbièeres and Roquefort-des-Corbières. Hope you like them. Val (who is going to the UK at the end of the week, and will see if he can find some interesting Royal Mail post boxes)

 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 15, 2012 at 3:51pm

Bonjour! French mail boxes are mostly very uninteresting. I walked around another village today, and must have seen about 500 post boxes of which only 12 or so were worth photographing (by my reckoning, that is: you might find those 12 not worth my efforts.). If I can borrow the camera again tomorrow I plan to go to anopther local village and then post my latest boxes.

The copper and black one is very nice. And the vertical ones should be graffitied so that they smile.

Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 15, 2012 at 12:23pm

A most unusual Greek mail box with copper and black decoration...

with a vintage postman's horn:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 15, 2012 at 12:20pm

Kalimera from Greece! Inspired by Val's great photos, I went for a walk around the neighborhood but found only the typical row of metal MAIL boxes and a couple of the junk-mail boxes that the apartment buildings have outside. I found only ONE rather decorative box. French town's have more creative and personal post boxes.

and for junk mail, white on white marble:

Oh, yes: the Greek relative of Val's "mobile post box"

...this one is BLUE, of course!

Comment by Dawg on January 15, 2012 at 6:23am

got your fun postcard today! thanks so much, will send something back soo

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 15, 2012 at 6:19am

Bonjour! Here are some post boxes from the villages of Bages and Peyriac-de-Mer that I photographed this weekend.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 14, 2012 at 5:48am

I posted this in the Postal History boutique Group last summer. It might interest you.

 

Stop stealing the UK's postboxes (and making them into mailboxes, too)!!

• Posted by Valentine Mark Herman on June 27, 2011 at 9:34pm in Postal History Boutique
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From today's UK Daily Telegraph

Postboxes stolen and sold on eBay for thousands

Britains world-famous red Victorian postboxes are being stolen by criminals who sell them abroad for thousands of pounds on auction site eBay

The metal boxes are being ripped from lampposts and telegraph poles all over the UK while others have been chiselled out of brick walls.

In some cases, entire pillar boxes have been uprooted from the ground. Police believe cars or trucks have been used to drag them from their foundations.

Many antique boxes are being sold over the internet as souvenirs to collectors abroad, especially in the US. Royal Mail has been hit by a wave of thefts, especially in rural areas, in recent months.

One insider said: "This is not an opportunist thing people do on the way home from the pub. You would need heavy cutting equipment to take these boxes away."

Postbox prices have risen in recent years after Royal Mail stopped auctioning off old stock in 2003.

Experts say boxes dating back to Queen Victorias reign and bearing the VR mark can fetch up to £5,000 in America. George V boxes dating back to 1910 are worth around £1,000 while more modern ones can go for hundreds of pounds.

Royal Mail chiefs originally thought thieves wanted the scrap metal but say any scrap yard which is legitimate is not going to want the distinctive boxes.

Now they say that if the boxes are dated pre-Elizabeth II, they could be valuable and may have been taken to be sold on eBay or on a collectors site.

Crooks stole 10 boxes from three villages near Hythe, Kent, in one recent incident. Other thefts have been reported in Sussex, Lincolnshire, Cornwall and Anglesey, North Wales. Many end up on eBay where dozens were being advertised last week.

Royal Mail said: These old boxes are of great historical interest and we are keen to get them back. We always try to replace stolen boxes.

Comment by Alicia Starr on January 10, 2012 at 11:52pm

The interest here is probably the graffiti. The US isn't known for it's Post boxes.

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