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Originally Posted by HarryT
A useless fact to amaze your friends with: did you know that Anthony Trollope invented the postbox during his lengthy career working for the post office? Prior to that time, post was collected directly from peoples' houses - Trollope came up with the idea of having postboxes in the street for anyone to put their post into.
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Trollope was responsible for the introduction of the first postboxes in Britain, but I don't think he invented them.
