After being decommissioned since the 90s, Charles Dickens' personal postbox
has been re-opened for service:
A postbox of Christmas past, specially installed for Charles Dickens, has been put back in service 150 years after the author first used it.
It was one of the earliest wall boxes to be introduced. Dickens, a
prolific letter writer, had lobbied for it to be installed outside his
home in Gad’s Hill Place, Kent, to spare him the mile-long trek to his
nearest village of Higham.
How batshit would this dude have gone over email, Facebook and Twitter?
The author’s great-great-granddaughter Marion, who officially opened
the box at a Victorian-themed ceremony, said Dickens wrote more than
14,000 letters, with more of 2,000 of them posted from that box between
1859 and 1870. The amount of mail was so huge he warranted his own Post Office private mail bag.
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