Personally I’d agree there is very little difference between a GR, EIIR, VR, EVII and EVIIIR.
If I’m accepting on the socialise criteria they all fit in.
None of them fit into the explore or exercise criteria and age isn’t a justifiable acceptance.
Basically UK hive mind with it’s wack cognitive bias says EIIR bad and everything else good because M0oO0oOAR.
I’d think a n-de beach would be a much better place to exercise, explore and be social than a postbox 
It it were just about mooooore, lets have the EIIRs as well!
I believe the reasoning was that because there is the cipher of the monarch on each, that means they are of historical interest, which used to be linked to eligibility critieria.
We decided that Queen Elizabeth’s boxes weren’t of historical interest because she was the current monarch. That’s not the case anymore, but they are also the most numerous so also less unusual and probably less interesting (for people who find postboxes interesting)
(I know you know this, but someone else might not)
This is how the The Second Great Postbox War will start…
Emily and I are gonna get you all 
What do you mean by second great postbox war?
We must have been through 8 already. 
Add to that the first PROW scrimmage of 2022.
The U.K. countryside is just covered in battlefields. 
You know that once she’s done with postboxes, she’s gonna turn on your precious police boxes, right?
There’s only about eleven left in England. One in Wales. Five or six in Glasgow depending on if the locals are bored. One near Aberdeen and 35ish in Edinburgh.
They’ll be fine… 
Well, it’s happening.
As predicted, it’s getting a new story. The first C III R cypher postbox. It’s being covered on BBC Breakfast this morning and is in Great Cambourne in Cambridgeshire.
I’ve said before that I would accept the first one as it’s significant British moment (I’d also accept the very first E II R one with evidence that it was).
Just worth keeping an eye out for this one in reviews but also (in my view) just because that one gets accepted, doesn’t mean other should be.
Id say the first in each country (assuming we get a first in each country before hes not king any longer lol)
These are likely going to be incredibly rare. They dont get replaced often and he sadly won’t have a long reign like his mother, so I think theyre just as interesting as the Georges.
… and when I say interesting… I mean ‘for a postbox’
I think Isle of Man had theirs last year.
I think Wales has one already.
I don’t think there is a Scottish one yet.
This one in England has the cypher in gold which will distinguish it.
I’m not a fan of the stuck on look of the cypher.
But yes basically these are all very special but not opening floodgates to CRlll
By the way the one in Camborne should be lightship only.
Scotland would just get the crown and no cypher I think so wouldn’t be distinguishable from the rest
Why?
The only problem some people had was with EII.
Charles I was on the throne after the union of the crowns.
The very first EIIR was installed in Whitehall near Horseguards Parade @PkmnTrainerJ I don’t think it’s still there but I can’t stay for sure.
Also before UK Wayfarers collectively wet their pants over the first CIII in England.
This is the box
The little plate at the front is the newer cost cutting design on postboxes. It can be unscrewed and replaced at very little cost. Previously they would have to replace the whole door sometimes swapping an EII with a GR or whatever they had.
How does this crappy little plate meet any of the explore, exercise or socialise criteria?
Meets “explore” as much as or more than those benches we all talk about so often 
I find the royal cypers more interesting than most of the bench inscriptions I guess.
Me too.
They have an interesting history but only on a much wider general scale - Penny Post, Trollope, standardisation of design with the Penfolds etc etc
It’s not like a GR, EVIIIR has been in a specific place and marks out some landmark or place of interest.
They can and do move them around, they change the cyphers, change the doors with the cyphers on them.
If it is still there I would be surprised, given the location, that it will show up in Pokémon Go for you
Good news is you might help other games if you add it 
Yes I do t like the plated cypher approach -spoils the look.
And yes the Scottish objection was specifically around ERIi. So I would expect CRIII to be used, which will make it quite an event after so many years without a cypher.
It looks like they won’t put the CIIIR letters on boxes beyond the wall but have a crown with a new design instead.
Seems like an odd choice unless they are trying to distance CIII from CI who was a self righteous, pompous git and CII who was a philandering womaniser… Probably too late for CIII on both those counts.
We can only hope that Emily gets to the new boxes before the UK hive mind does
Well there was logic to the ER2 decision in Scotland , doesn’t sound like there is one ….i must read up on it.
It looks like they didn’t want to use the cypher with the Tudor crown in Scotland but I think they’ll use the CIIIR with the Scottish Crown instead.
