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Kōrero: Mail and couriers

Unusual letterboxes

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Unusual letterboxes

As long as it’s a reasonable size and weatherproof, a letterbox can be made of any almost any material and in any shape. New Zealanders have expressed their distinctiveness through home-made letterboxes in a wide array of shapes, colours and degrees of sophistication.

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Tim Shoebridge, Mail and couriers – Mail in the steam era, 1850s–1890s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23049/unusual-letterboxes (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Tim Shoebridge, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.