Pillar box
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A pillar box is a type of free-standing post box. They are found in the United Kingdom and its associated the Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, and, less commonly, in many members of the Commonwealth of Nations such as Cyprus, India, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Malta, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Republic of Ireland. Pillar boxes were provided in territories administered by the United Kingdom, such as Mandatory Palestine, and territories with agency postal services provided by the British Post Office such as Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait and Morocco. The United Kingdom also exported pillar boxes to countries that ran their own postal services, such as Argentina, Portugal and Uruguay.
1856 type PB1/viii at the West Gate, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Cast iron cap of a PB42/1 sits atop the box and is secured by bolts
This rare Edward VIII pillar box door shows the built-in posting aperture, collection plate and the royal cypher at Colne Valley Postal History Museum, Halstead, Essex
This VR box in Guernsey is the oldest box in use in the British Isles
Post box
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A post box, also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box, is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intended for collection by the agents of a country's postal service. The term post box can also refer to a private letter box for incoming mail.
Postbox of the Russian Post in Moscow
A Victorian era Type B pillar postbox in Hull
First Paris Street letter box from c. 1850
A British Lamp Box post box of the circa-1954 pattern in Eaves, Lancashire