The event on the Letterbox

The Development of the Letterbox
In the pre-post box era, there have been two main strategies to delivering correspondence; senders will be necessitated to take their mail with a Receiving House, or would await the Bellman. The latter would patrol the streets, collecting post in the community. In order to distinguish himself, and to make his presence known, the Bellman dons a uniform and sounds familiar.
It is at 1852 that the suggestion of road-side boxes finally became a reality, which has a trial proposed to the Channel Islands. Three cast-iron pillar boxes were attached to Jersey to try out the new system.
The success in the experiment triggered an additional four being attached to Guernsey, one of these now forms part of the British Postal Museum & Archive collection. Letter boxes then began appearing for the mainland at the time of 1853.
However, there is as yet no universal pillar box design in which we're currently familiar. Design and manufacture was with the discretion of local authorities, also it was in 1859 that attempts were built to standardise the structures.
Horizontal slits had become the favoured option over vertical ones, and became the norm in letterbox design. Further improvements upon the main included the addition from the protruding cap to shield the contents from the elements.
As of 1859, the therapy lamp ended up being to be for sale in 2 sizes; a greater and wider size for highly populated areas, plus a smaller version for elsewhere. However, the standardised pillar boxes did not receive universal acclaim. It was contrary to the backdrop of such criticism how the Liverpool Special was formulated.
This prompted the Post Office (opened in 1861) to produce another standard letter box in 1866. Again, this here is not a huge success therefore, a further design started in 1879. This final design is the one that were familiar with today. It was two years prior to this how the iconic red colour in the post boxes became a standard feature.
Before this time around, preferred colour option was green in order to blend in with all the green British pastures. However, from a barrage of complaints that the structures were to difficult to locate this can camouflage, it was agreed that bright red was the best choice. The programme of re-painting lasted for as much as 10 years.
For the populace in particular, the introduction and refinement of letter boxes enhanced the ability for sending and receiving mail with ease. With the exception of oversized parcel delivery, people were afforded access to some delivery service no time before witnessed in Great Britain.