At the same time we are taking advantage of e-commerce, making plentiful use of internet retail and auction sites.

Meanwhile our newspapers seem to be getting bigger, especially at the weekends, as the events of a busy world vie for our attention.

If you have your newspapers delivered then you will be no stranger to the problem of how the postman will struggle to get a pile of supplements through your front-door letterbox. It may be that, by agreement with your newsagent, your newspapers are left on the front porch, which is not the best solution as they are then prone to the elements as well as theft.

If you regularly make use of e-commerce, then you may be getting tired of that “whilst you were out” card from the postman that arrives to inform you that your package was the wrong size for your letter box.

Here at Mailbox Mania we offer you the ideal alternative to the front-door letter box: an externally installed post box. This could be a high capacity mailbox giving the postman plenty of room for large packages. We also offer post boxes combined with newspaper holders, which will instantly solve that pesky newspaper problem.

Metal post boxes are weather resistant, giving your mail protection against rain, sleet, and snow, icy conditions, and also intense, continuous hot weather. In a rapidly changing climate, full of extremes, as seen in the UK, you could really benefit from having one of these robust mailboxes.

Metal post boxes, especially of the stainless steel variety, are rust proof, and likely to last you for a number of years.

Metal post boxes are especially secure and are made of strong intruder-proof materials. When coming with a combination lock these post boxes are highly theft resistant. With identity theft being a growing problem these days, it’s important to have the strongest protection in place for your mail.

Fortunately, there are a lot of choices when it comes to the types of metal post box most suited to residential or business use.

Here at Mailbox Mania we offer a high variety of metal post boxes to suit all your needs, from a modest indoor suggestion box to an arson proof standalone mailbox for outdoor installation.

Should privacy be a special concern we also offer “through the wall” metal post boxes. These are installed in a wall or pillar, so the postman only has access to the front posting slot whilst you only have access to the mail retrieval.

The first of this type of pillar post box was erected in Jersey in 1852, and the novelist Anthony Trollope, working for the Post Office at the time, was a driving force behind what started as a trial.

It was a whole century, however, before the standardised EIIR pillar box, which we know and love today, first appeared on UK streets in 1952.

There is however, another type of post box, which is more usually associated with properties in the USA: this is the residential or business “mail box”, which is either standalone, or attached to the fencing around a property. These post boxes are used by the postman to drop off your mail on their rounds, are now increasingly common in the UK and Europe.

This type of post box is, for many consumers, a viable and attractive alternative to the traditional front-door letter boxes, which can cause problems; they sometimes have a spring mechanism which could trouble the postman, especially in combination with an unfriendly dog.

Here at Mailbox Mania, a friendly family business, we offer a wide variety of alternatives to the traditional front-door letter box. Whatever your needs, from freestanding stainless steel post boxes, to wall-mounted letter boxes for an apartment block, we are here to help.

If post boxes fit in with the look of your house, and your street as a whole, then this very much increases their appeal. It’s likely you will want your brand new post box to be attractive as well as secure, weather proof and durable.

One way you can achieve this is to make a stylistic acknowledgement of our friends “across the pond” in the USA, where residential post boxes are the norm. Here at Mailbox Mania we offer elegant, practical, and eye-catching US style post boxes, in either metal or aluminium. You could either go for a sleek glossy black colouring, or a more neutral matt white.

Alternatively, you could invest in a residential post box with a more “olde worlde” look by acquiring a cast aluminium post box. At Mailbox Mania we can offer you a beautiful “Imperial” style post box, complete with heraldic engraving on the front to give your post box a real gravitas in the neighbourhood.

However, if you’d like your post box to be a little more understated yet still elegant, you could consider one of our brushed silver aluminium post boxes.

Finally, remember it’s the little touches that can count: a workmanlike post box, such as our Large Capacity Newspaper Post Box, can be given a touch of style with an attractive gold address plate on the front.

First and foremost stainless steel is a robust, versatile alloy, which in combination with a high quality lock, will give your precious mail invaluable protection against intrusion and theft.

Stainless steel post boxes are also both fire resistant and weatherproof, in particular being fully rainproof. Furthermore stainless steel post boxes are impervious to extreme cold and snow, as experienced last winter in the UK.

These post boxes are also rust proof, and therefore highly durable. They will continue looking great for years after your purchase, with no creaky doors, or catches in locks to worry about. Stainless steel post boxes are easy to clean and so require minimal fuss; they are incredibly low- maintenance.

One of the considerations when buying a post box is combining a pleasing, professional appearance to visitors, security and weather resistance, with sufficient room in the post box for large size packages and newspapers. Here at Mailbox Mania we offer a wide range of stainless steel post boxes with newspaper holders; this way you won’t be compromising on space and are still getting a quality stainless steel product.

Finally, stainless steel has the potential to be environmentally friendly, being 100% recyclable. Indeed some stainless steel post boxes are now made out of 40% recycled material.

Stainless steel post boxes are proof positive that post boxes have come a long way since they were first installed in the 1700s.

Residential businesses can benefit greatly from a post box sited outside the house, but still on the owner’s land, most likely in the front garden.

Modern post boxes now come as fully lockable, so by having a separately sited, secure mailbox you will gain in security both from material and identity theft, should your house suffer a burglary.

In the unfortunate case of fire damage, then again by having a separately located mailbox gives you an initial level of protection that you can boost further by investing in an anti-arson mailbox.

What’s more, with a sturdy, easy accessible mailbox you make an instant friend of your postman. The postman is saved a walk up the garden path, saved grappling with a potentially more old-fashioned front door letterbox and in particular from having to squeeze bulky items through.

This brings us to another huge advantage of the standalone post box: a choice of wider and taller slots, making receipt of parcels and packages instantly easier. If you go for a large capacity post box you can even have one that has a separate slot just for newspapers.

Here at Mailbox Mania we provide a huge variety of post boxes to suit all your needs, be they business or residential.

Residential mailboxes fitted with safety locking can generally be split into the following groups:

Mounted Residential mailboxes

This type of mailbox can sit on a post or column of any size and sits at the front of the property. Flexible in their positioning and choice of fixtures in which they can be attached; in fact, these residential mailboxes can even be fitted to the front wall of a building.

Mounted residential mailboxes of this variety which have lockable security can be found in a range of durable materials including; aluminium, brass and the most popular of all is the stainless steel post boxes.

Curb-side Residential Mailboxes

Probably the most popular of all residential mailboxes (with or without locking facilities); this type are mostly seen in highly populated areas but also used by many in rural areas too. Typically, curb-side mailboxes which provide long-term quality and safety provide an excellent locking feature, space to hold newspapers and ease of recovering mail items from inside and outside an external door.

At Mailbox Mania we are relied upon to provide the best quality post boxes and letter boxes with the largest range of lockable and standard letter boxes and post boxes available on the UK market at the best prices around.

Whether commercial or residential mailboxes it’s important to remember that the size chosen can make life simpler. For example; larger letter boxes accept larger packages and have a greater chance in saving many trips to the post office to collect undelivered mail items.

Many homeowners consider that larger letter boxes mean a greater chance of theft due to a bigger gap in the outdoor door which may attract opportunists reaching through and taking mail from the inside but this is exactly the reason why lockable letter boxes were invented.

Some letter boxes will require a professional or at least someone who is savvy with building and fitting items such as flat-pack furniture and often it is necessary in a commercial establishment that the post boxes chosen are larger industrial types and will need a professional to fit and install.

On the opposite side of the spectrum residential mailboxes are normally much smaller and easily fit into the space within the front door, therefore, need very little installation and should be quick and simple to fit.

We at Mailbox Mania are now one of the largest, best-known UK suppliers for commercial and residential mailboxes. We guarantee exceptional durability and sleek aesthetics with all the products we offer along with price guarantee to provide the most competitive prices available within the UK.

Post boxes are available in many materials, colours, sizes and with or without lockable safety features.

When it comes to purchasing letter boxes, the sizes available include smaller internal door letter boxes to the larger freestanding stainless steel post boxes.

Letter boxes and post boxes manufactured from coated or galvanised metal offer maximum durability and stainless steel post boxes can be relied upon for decades of use due their ability to withstand harsh UK weather conditions whilst remaining untarnished.

Size is the most obvious consideration when searching for post boxes and commercial businesses tend to opt for larger mailboxes whereas those searching for residential mailboxes tend to choose much smaller items.

We, at Mailbox Mania provide one of the widest ranges in residential mailboxes to large industrial stainless steel post boxes in all shapes, materials and colours and always guaranteeing the best quality products on the market.

We consider that one of the most important factors is to provide customers with products that will last for many years to come which means that many of our products are treated to withstand the harshest weather conditions. Guaranteeing that we provide the best prices to our customers, we price monitor our website regularly and provide the most competitive pricing in the UK post boxes and letter boxes market.

Whilst letter boxes are used daily and absolutely millions of them are regularly used and one of the most commonly sighted view at or in a door of a residential property it is a subject that is rarely discussed as it is rather limited in its context.

For instance, there are not many people who know the history of the first letter boxes and surprisingly enough their concept first evolved in the fashion capital of Europe in Paris, France as far back as early 1700. During the forthcoming years cities and countries across the world began to realise the importance and convenience of owning letter boxes and as such these important but lesser discussed features began to appear at the front of properties across the globe.

As the world has evolved to the next stage of communication via the internet, it is still necessary to have mail boxes within our homes and places of work. Much emphasis is still put on the legal nature of exchanging physical documents and in many cases this is due to the demand for authentic personal signatures that form an integral part of legalising a transaction or agreement.

During the past 3 years we at Mailbox Mania have enjoyed success after success and we are now one of the largest retailers in the UK who provide exceptional quality stainless steel post boxes.