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Rural delivery letterboxes

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Rural delivery letterboxes

These rural delivery letterboxes in Taranaki prominently display the name of the newspaper to be delivered. Metropolitan newspapers have long been an important source of news for farming people.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Getting news and information, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18566/rural-delivery-letterboxes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.