Crematoriums across the UK are to install a 'postbox to heaven' so people can send letters to deceased loved ones - after a nine-year-old girl came up with the idea. Grieving Matilda Handy suggested the heartwarming idea while looking for a way to express her emotions after her grandparents passed away.
The schoolgirl wanted to send her late gran and granddad cards and letters so her mum approached Gedling Crematorium, in Lambley, Nottingham, where she works. Crematorium bosses responded by installing an old postbox painted white just before Christmas, which led to more than 100 letters being posted.
The postboxes are now set to be implemented at 36 other sites across the country after Matilda's moving tribute to her grandparents proved so popular. Matilda first thought of her idea when her post office worker grandmother Pat died in 2017 before she also sadly lost her grandad Keith in November last year.
