Bedford currently has 112 mapped postboxes recorded by The Postbox Hunter. The postboxes in Bedford include 6 recorded royal cyphers. The most common is EIIR, recorded on 64 postboxes, representing 57.1% of the mapped total. The complete recorded cypher list is: EIIR (64), GR (18), GVIR (10), VR (10), EVIIR (3) and no (3). Among the recognised royal cyphers in the data, VR is the earliest recorded and EIIR is the most recent. The most commonly recorded postbox type is Pillar, with 77 mapped examples. The data contains 4 different recorded postbox types. Across the available tagging data, 6 designs are represented. This information is generated from the latest postbox location and tagging data available to The Postbox Hunter.