Oh my goodness! What has happened to the pillar box outside the general stores and post office in Larkhall? No chance of posting letters in there at the moment.
If you read the attached notice, it talks about ‘ an automated system’ coming soon.
What have we in store? Will it thank us for using it and wish us a nice day?
Rosie Bulford was as puzzled as I was until she came across the following story in The Guardian.
Now that’s an article from last year, and it doesn’t necessarily mean we are going to get one of those, but says Rosie, if we do, will we still be able to post letters in it?
I emailed the Royal Mail press office in the hope of finding out!
Great service! Only twenty minutes later came an email explaining that,
“This is part of the rollout of our postboxes of the future. After a pilot in April 2025, we began rolling them out in August.
The new design features a solar panel, a scanner, and a drawer for parcels, and allows customers to send and return small, labelled parcels through a postbox for the first time. Customers can, of course, send letters via the posting slot as normal.
Our postboxes of the future offer another convenient way for our customers in Bath to access Royal Mail’s services, alongside home delivery and collection, our Customer Service Points, Post Office branches, lockers and Royal Mail Shops.”
Here’s an idea of how the new Larkhall box will look when it is installed.
Adapted post boxes already rolled out in Suffolk. They’re to enable you to post small parcels without the need to queue in a post office, if you have one.
And, yes, you can still post letters.
There’s been one outside the Tesco Metro on Bathwick Hill for the past six months or so. Not sure if you can post letters but it does allow you to post parcels in some manner!