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‘Think how many trees and litres of water could be conserved if marketing companies stopped stuffing postboxes with advertising.’
‘Live fireworks have been thrown into phone boxes, postboxes and even into a residential letterbox vandals in the run up to bonfire night’
‘A problem with some of the older postboxes is that they cannot take the volume of post that needs to go in them, especially in some urban areas.’
‘To cut down on distances covered by postmen, An Post want householders living more than 10 metres from the road to take a roadside postbox, rather than the postman delivering to their door.’
‘She said people had been parking their cars up by the postbox to post their mail and blocking the access of adjacent properties.’
‘A postbox containing voting slips was set alight.’
‘The Royal Mail has reduced collections without providing bigger postboxes to accommodate the volume of letters.’
‘I fell asleep for a while then got off at the Mini Mart and stopped by my postbox to see if I had any mail.’
‘However at the moment An Post are finding that some businesses are not open to receive their mail and do not have suitable postboxes.’
‘They are asking the county council to make the lane a safe walking route to and from High Grantley, where the bus stop, school, playgroup, recreation ground, village hall, postbox and public house are all located.’
‘Those who do agree to participate will be supplied with a postbox, which An Post say is high quality, attractive and weather-proof.’
‘They also ban over-sized satellite dishes, wacky postboxes, and untoward lawn ‘statuary.’’
‘The first results were not declared until gone midnight, with sackloads of extra votes arriving after a last-minute sweep of postboxes by the Royal Mail.’
‘It happened again the next morning as I nipped down to the postbox at the corner of my road.’
‘Gordon reckoned there was no need for the leaflets to be delivered as there was a postbox at the beginning of his driveway.’
‘There, he dropped the package into one of the postboxes and grinned with satisfaction when he imagined a confused postman finding it.’
‘I've been carrying a letter round for two weeks, looking for a postbox.’
‘I got a CD in the mail, but the postie just shoved the package halfway into the postbox slot and cracked half the CD cover.’
‘I walked out of the house to post a letter - the postbox is less than 100 yards away - and left the door open.’
‘It was a nondescript little apartment, its front door facing the road, with naught but a small dented metal postbox stuffed with junk mail and a window with a purple curtain to look at.’
‘Often, delivery errors are corrected by residents, who put the mail through the right door or drop it back into a postbox.’
‘And judging by the full postboxes of letters already dotted around the hall, public feeling is as strong as ever.’
‘A spokesman for the Royal Mail said the box had been moved so that a larger postbox could be installed.’
‘The Post Office also agreed to install a postbox in the Seaview area, and street lighting around Seaview has also been upgraded.’
‘The unofficial walkouts crippled large parts of London and hit other areas of the country, forcing managers to empty postboxes.’
‘The postbox was right in front of the gate, thank you.’
‘The postbox was designed specifically so that its slot was only 5mm wide, and therefore it could only take ordinary sized enveloped.’
‘There's something satisfying about putting that wodge of envelopes in the postbox on the way to work.’
‘The issue was raised at a recent meeting and it was stressed that the two existing postboxes were not adequate for contemporary needs.’
‘Letters in hand, I wandered off up to the postbox.’
‘These mis-delivered letters are put back into the postbox, with an arrow indicating the correct place, and I can only hope that the post office does not add insult to injury by trying to collect excess postage.’