Royal Mail is set to make the biggest change to postboxes in 175 years and it will make it easier to send parcels. Royal Mail is to roll out thousands of solar-powered "postboxes of the future" around the country, which will also allow customers to post bigger parcels.

Customers will be able to post parcels as big as shoeboxes in the redesigned post boxes after a successful trial. The new postboxes will have a barcode that customers can scan, allowing them to track their parcel on the Royal Mail app.

They will feature a digital drop-down drawer, so people can send parcels as large as a shoebox without having to go to the Post Office.The new postbox design was trialled in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire earlier this year, and will now be installed in cities including Edinburgh, Manche

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