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Andrew Young is chair of The LetterBox Study Group, a group of volunteers who have spent nearly 40 years collecting the details of most of the 115,500 letter boxes around the UK.

Speaking to 5 live Breakfast, Andrew says that when he joined the group back in 1990s they had 鈥渁round 30 to 40 thousand" of the boxes on file, and now have less than a thousand to record. His favourite letter box is the Edward VIII box "as there are just 160 in the country".

Although the group's database is near completion, Andrew says it can鈥檛 be published because the boxes are desirable and there is a market for them:

鈥淪ome of the rare boxes are very collectable, they can get stolen and sent over seas, all sorts of things鈥�.

This clip is originally from Breakfast on Tuesday 19th January 2016