Mailboxes On Stamps!

Mailbox, telegraph line and telephone, designed by Danish artist Finn Andersen (1909-1987), printed by lithogravure, and issued by Denmark on June 19, 1986 to publicize the 19th European Congress of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International organization, held in Copenhagen, August 12-16, Scott No. 822, Facit No. 903.

- nethryk

Great Britain, UPU, Universal Postal Union stamp showing a postal delivery van and a postal pilar box.

New Zealand came up in 1997 Wackiest Letterboxes

This is my main collecting theme after printing. I am in the process of producing a handbook covering every (hopefully!) letter box stamp, MS, stamp booklet, postmark, stationery item, Cinderella, etc. A mammoth undertaking, as there are many hundreds of stamps, let alone the other collectables.

Anyway, I attach the latest such stamp issue, which is from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. It commemorates the sporting achievements by Carl Hester in the equestrian events, especially at the London 2012 Olympics. I suspect that Guernsey Post fought shy of including the word "Olympics" on the stamp due to the cost of paying the IOC for the use of the word.

Incidentally, every winner from Team GB has a pillar box painted gold in perpetuity, and commemorative plaques are in the process of being affixed to each box. The wording is also in Braille on the plaque.

GLENN MORGAN

Steve

Birds mailing letters, printed by photogravure, and issued by Great Britain on November 16, 1983 for Christmas, Scott No. 1035.

- nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a girl mailing a letter, designed after a child's drawing, printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on April 20, 1971 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the centenary of Japanese postage stamps, Scott No. 1058.

- nethryk

MAILBOXES topic in stamp and FDC
Chile 2011 - America Upaep issue

Postman emptying a mailbox, printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on June 25, 1955 as one of a series of stamps depicting various occupations, designed by Zoltán Nagy and József Vertel, Scott No. 1123.

- nethryk

France
L'ADRESSE Musée de La Poste ATM stamp
March 19, 2015
The stamp on a maximum card illustrating two vintage French mailboxes:
Mougeotte (1900) and Simyanette (1906)

Germany
Rural House Mailbox
October 9, 2003

Canada
Traditional Rural Mailboxes
April 28, 2000

Peru
UPAEP - Traditional Mailboxes
November 2, 2011

Belgium
Stamp Festival - Old and New Mailboxes
May 14, 2011

Uruguay
UPAEP - Mail Boxes
September 30, 2011