Royal Mail has released a postcard book, designed by Delaney Design Consultants, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the post box. Called Post Boxes: A Celebration in Postcards, the book is billed ...

1840 - The first postcard was a hand-painted caricature of postal workers. Stamped with a Penny Black, it was sent to Theodore Hook in Fulham, London, possibly by Hook himself as a practical joke.

Suggestive postcards featuring buxom women displaying their cleavage have been rejected as stamp designs by Royal Mail. Leeds firm Bamforth applied to have 10 of its vintage cartoons displayed on ...