GBP - British Pound Sterling. EUR - Euro; Newsletter. The postboxes have been designed to honour black Britons and to pay tribute to Royal Mail staff. Replacing the classic red design, the postboxes have been painted all black with a gold trim. Each postbox also features a notable black Briton or a piece of work by them. Great range of Conexis L1 at YaleHome. Perfect to keep your home and valuables safe 24/7 from the brand you can trust. The Yale range of smart locks enables you to control your front door with key tag, keypad and even your mobile phone. Smart door locks are designed to lock and unlock a door when receiving instructions from an authorised device using wireless technology or using a keypad.
Royal Mail has unveiled four new black postboxes to mark Black History Month this October. A postbox has been installed in each UK country ahead of the start of Black History month and will remain in place until the end of October. The postboxes have been designed to honour black Britons and to pay tribute to Royal Mail staff.
Replacing the classic red design, the postboxes have been painted all black with a gold trim. Each postbox also features a notable black Briton or a piece of work by them.
Those who are keen to find out more about these figures can use their smartphone to scan a QR code on the boxes, which will direct them to an online gallery on the Royal Mail website.
Peter De Norville, head of diversity and inclusion at Royal Mail said: “Black History Month is a great opportunity to celebrate the contributions that black people have made to this country over many generations.
“We are also using it as an opportunity to celebrate the vital work that our black employees do throughout the nation, from the mailbag to the meeting room.”
Postboxes were also emblazoned with tributes to Sir Tom Moore following his fundraising efforts for the NHS.
Royal Mail painted five postboxes outside hospitals, including St Thomas’ Hospital in London and the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, were emblazoned with ‘thank you NHS’.
Royal Mail also painted a Sheffield post box gold after local Jessica Ennis took gold in the 2012 Olympics.
Emoji Meaning
A postbox (mailbox, letterbox) with a letter in its slot for collection. Generally depicted in red with a white envelope, styled after public postboxes in Japan. May also evoke postboxes in the United Kingdom.
Black Post Boxes
Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and email. Microsoft’s design is blue, after U.S. mail collection boxes.
Postbox was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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