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Pillar box
A pillar box is a free-standing
post box. They are found in the United Kingdom and in most former nations of
the British Empire, members of the Commonwealth of Nations and British overseas
territories, such as Australia, Cyprus, India, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, the
Republic of Ireland, Malta and New Zealand.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.
Mail is deposited in pillar boxes to be collected by the Royal Mail, An Post or the appropriate postal operator and forwarded to the addressee. The boxes have been in use since 1852, just twelve years after the introduction of the first adhesive postage stamps and uniform penny post.
Mail may also be deposited in lamp boxes or wall boxes that serve the same purpose as pillar boxes but are attached to a post or set into a wall. According to the Letter Box Study Group, there are more than 150 recognised designs and varieties of pillar boxes and wall boxes, not all of which have known surviving examples. Royal Mail estimates there are over 100,000 post boxes in the United Kingdom.
Pillar box
1.
The pillar box
is only found in the United Kingdom. 
True.
False.
We don't know.
True.
False.
We don't know.
2. The UK exported pillar boxes to 
New Zealand.
Argentina.
China.
New Zealand.
Argentina.
China.
3. Mail deposited in pillar boxes is collected by 
the United Kingdom.
the Royal Mail.
the Commonweatlh.
the United Kingdom.
the Royal Mail.
the Commonweatlh.
4. How many recognised designs of pillar and wall boxes are there? 
150.
100,000.
We don't know.
150.
100,000.
We don't know.
Soluciones:
1-TRUE
2-ARGENTINA
3-THE ROYAL MAIL
4-150
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