Ilford currently has 135 mapped postboxes recorded by The Postbox Hunter. The postboxes in Ilford include 6 recorded royal cyphers. The most common is GR, recorded on 25 postboxes, representing 18.5% of the mapped total. The complete recorded cypher list is: GR (25), EIIR (19), EVIIR (11), no (4), GVIR (3) and VR (1). 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 104 mapped examples. The data contains 4 different recorded postbox types. Across the available tagging data, 4 designs are represented. This information is generated from the latest postbox location and tagging data available to The Postbox Hunter.