Valentine's Day letters will be sent with love from the past as Royal Mail adorns red postboxes with romantic quotes from works by Keats, Burns and Hardy

  • Royal Mail will celebrate Valentine's Day by decorating some postboxes with romantic quotes 
  • The quotes will come from several iconic English authors, such as John Keats
  • Postbox sites include London, Lichfield in Staffordshire, Dorset and Ayrshire

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

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In an age of online messaging, Royal Mail is hoping to rekindle a fondness for the handwritten love letter this Valentine’s Day.

Romantic quotations from works by John Keats, Robert Burns, Anna Seward and Thomas Hardy will adorn red postboxes in locations across the country.

Mark Street, from the Royal Mail, said: ‘As one of the guardians of the written word, we relish the opportunity to celebrate the life and times of some of Britain’s most treasured writers.

Some Royal Mail postboxes

Romantic quotes from iconic English authors have been added to some Royal Mail postboxes for Valentine's Day 

Royal Mail said it relished 'the opportunity to celebrate the life and times of some of Britain’s most treasured writers'

Royal Mail said it relished 'the opportunity to celebrate the life and times of some of Britain’s most treasured writers'

‘With such a rich history of producing some of the most famous romantic works of all time, it seems only fitting their work is honoured on some of our iconic postboxes.’

Letterbox sites include London, Lichfield in Staffordshire, Dorset and Ayrshire – places which are associated with the writers.

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