Last letters from Denmark: Danes write to Devon artist as postal service ends

Gillian Taylor, who specialises in paper art, asked Danes to post a letter to a PO Box in Exeter, Devon. Photograph: The Guardian

Some describe the joy of receiving dispatches from far afield, others speak of the discipline of sitting down to carefully order their thoughts in a letter.

One writer tells of finding a poignant cache of letters after a parent’s death, while another has shared a map of where the postboxes used to be in her town.