A letterbox like this makes us want to reach for the fountain pen, paper and envelopes and revive the art of letter writing in the New Year.
Just look at it, proudly emblazoned with Queen Victoria's initials and coloured in a lovely patinated red. Marvellous!
To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, "if we post this before 11a.m. Watson it'll be in Dorking by two o'clock"'. Those we're the days. We posted our Christmas cards nearly two weeks ago and they still haven't arrived with some of the recipients.
Perhaps if everybody lived in Dorking they would have arrived?
No, we didn't think so either, second class post more like bottom of the class post and I've already put the fountain pen away before you ask.
That's the first resolution gone already!