{"id":44202,"date":"2025-09-27T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44202"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:54:00","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-postal-doorsteproyal-mail-to-roll-out-postboxes-of-the-future-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44202","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the (postal) doorstep\u2019:Royal Mail to roll out \u2018postboxes of the future\u2019 across the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Postboxes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Postboxes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44203\" style=\"width:403px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Postboxes.png 870w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Postboxes-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Postboxes-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a successful pilot in April of this year, the Royal Mail is now rolling out its new solar-powered postboxes nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parcel and Postbox technology International writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest change to the iconic red postbox in 175 years sees the introduction of a large solar panel and a drop-down drawer for large parcels, with 3,500 of what Royal Mail describes as its \u2018postboxes of the future\u2019\u2026 over the coming months\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new-look design enables customers to send and return labelled parcels up to the size of a shoebox\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parcelandpostaltechnologyinternational.com\/news\/parcels\/royal-mail-to-roll-out-postboxes-of-the-future-across-the-uk.html\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration After a successful pilot in April of this year, the Royal Mail is now rolling out its new solar-powered postboxes nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,107,29,538,539,312],"class_list":["post-44202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-climate-change","tag-design","tag-heritage","tag-postbox","tag-solar","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44204,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions\/44204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}