Mother of invention

With Mother’s Day fast approaching on Sunday 22 March, sons and daughters across the UK are making plans to spoil their mothers with gifts in the post.

To mark Mother’s Day, we have launched our first ‘special’ parcel postbox in Swansea city centre.

Decked out in floral designs, the special parcel postbox is located on Union Street. It will be decorated for a month before returning to its usual red colour. The postbox will also feature the below verse from one of the first Mother’s Day cards sent around 1860.

‘Dearest one, who gave me birth,

And sweetest love doth always show,

Bright be thy pathway upon earth,

A stranger here to woe.

May every day with roseate hue

Yield all its stores of sweets for you’

The Lord Mayor of Swansea, Peter Black (pictured), attended the opening of the special postbox and even posted a parcel to his mother.

Sending Mother’s Day gifts remains a key part of making mothers feel loved and appreciated. As families become more dispersed, many of us live some distance from our mothers. If you can’t be there to spoil her in person this year, why not make your feelings known with a gift in the post?

Parcel postboxes

Royal Mail introduced the UK’s first ever parcel postboxes in locations across the country, last year. The parcel postboxes mark the first major repurposing of the postbox in the last 160 years. The launch of parcel postboxes is also one of the biggest innovations in parcels since the launch of Parcel Post in 1883.

The parcel postboxes enable pre-paid parcels to be posted through securely designed parcel postboxes, in the same way letters are posted.