It was tubular, it was red, it had GR embossed on it, it was placed in Woodbridge over 60 years ago…    And it has softly and silently vanished away.

I’m talking about  the old postbox that used to be outside the Woodbridge library as was before it was redeveloped. And which appears to have vanished without a trace during the rebuilding work.

Its lucky that Google doesn’t update Google street view often because it means that today I have been able to go online  and take a screen grab to show this  postbox  as it used to be  by the old Library in the centre of Woodbridge. Standing at the corner of Little St Johns St and New Street  – where it remained from the reign of King George until the white hoardings went up last year.

It seeems that while Woodbridge Town Council  debated an alternative destination for the decorative – but merely seasonal – yellow  postbox from France which was embedded in the wall of the library behind,  they have overlooked the complete  disappearance of this  facility. As have a number of councillors  (including myself) until it was  brought to my attention by a concerned constituent  yesterday.

“It is the only box over this side of town,” she pointed out

As nobody seems to know where the box is – and  why it disappeared, I am chasing it up directly with Royal Mail.