Residents in Edinburgh will soon be able to use red pillar boxes to send parcels after Royal Mail announced the roll out of new ‘post boxes of the future’. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

Designed to look as close as possible to the traditional cast iron boxes, they are still pillar-box red, and look similar ...

Royal Mail is rolling out 3,500 solar-powered “postboxes of the future” across the UK, featuring a digitally activated drop-down drawer so customers can send parcels as large as a shoebox. Following ...

Royal Mail plans to almost double the number of parcel exchanges — including shops, lockers and parcel post boxes — to 45,000 locations by 2030, as part of a strategy to meet growing demand for drop ...

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10:48, Wed, Aug 27, 2025 Updated: 12:10, Wed, Aug 27, 2025 The UK's iconic red postboxes have undergone the biggest redesign in 175 years as Royal Mail adds solar panels and parcel scanners to the ...

Royal Mail announced today (August 27) that its iconic red post boxes have undergone the biggest redesign in its 175 year history - including solar panels and scanners so they now accept parcels. They ...