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Rear window: Red-letter day for postal service as pillar of British society gets reprieve The postbox, dreamt up by Trollope, is still useful after all these years

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20021006
Author:Simon O'Hagan

Anthony Trollope is celebrated as the author of classic 19th- century novels, but he has another claim - as the man who thought up the idea of the postbox. So, no doubt the author of the Barchester Chronicles series of novels is smiling down from on high at last week's announcement that the 113,000 postboxes that now grace street corners all over Britain have had their future assured.

Under a new agreement between the Post Office and English Heritage, the threat that has hung over one of the country's most enduring symbols has been lifted. All letterboxes will now be repainted at least once ...

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