I heard on BBC Radio today that a spokesperson for Royal Mail refused to tell an enquirer the locations of the bright red post boxes that stand on street corners all over the UK because it is commercially sensitive information. Perhaps we can help. There must be plenty of photo opportunities not only here but all over the world, so perhaps we could start a mini project here ....
@edpartridge Not really, no. That is one of the weirdest things I have ever read though! I think we should go on a 'red postbox hunt' and find them all and mark on a map where they all are and then sell it to Royal Mail for an extortionate amount of money so they can keep that information confidential. Or we could blackmail them with it. Free stamps for life or something..
I have found two more ... genuine, but so cunningly disguised that not even the postman will recognize them ... but I can't show you now because I've used my allocated space for today!
They're getting sneaky at the Royal Mail ... Look how they tried to hide the post box with a layer of snow and a carefully positioned push bike back in December.
@katiegc24 Ican supply warthog if you find the trainer. Also we now know why we get late deliverys cos postman cant find the collection boxes as no one told them where they are.
@hobgoblinwychwo excellent. Glad to hear someone has got their head screwed on the right way. Don't tell anyone, but.. I am actually a qualified warthog trainer! If you can send me the warthog ASAP I will get to work. The best way to send it? There aren't many specialist warthog couriers about, but if you can find a post box I am sure Royal Mail will handle it.
@petersonsheri Agreed. Why would they be so protective over the locations of post boxes?!?? O_O
@katiegc24 lol!! I can't imagine why, unless they were afraid that someone wanting to know specifically where the red ones were had plans to bomb them or something. You never know what some people will do. Still, in my opinion, that is public information.
I was told that if you put a warthog in a phone booth and dial 411, the phone booth will turn in to a secret magical warthog transport vessell. The warthog will magically land in your bathtub!! Good luck, and don't let it eat Greg. :)
@petersonsheri Sorry but if he don't get his his daily Gregs then he gets bad tempered, when I tried him in the transporter he landed in the bath tub ok but its know a mud hole where he wallows all day. @katiegc24 Kate have you got a good supply of Gregs for him,and I would not trust him to the Royal Mail cos they would probly lose him.
@petersonsheri@hobgoblinwychwo oh no! Greg thinks it would be a good idea if he stopped 365 straight away and went into hiding from all the warthogs that might want to eat him. He says he is only one small rubber duck who gets easily scared.. And that posting photos of himself on the internet every day is only going to attract attention from bad people/warthogs.
They might think that these are well enough disguised, but I can tell you exactly where they are: The wooden one is in the National Railway Musem, York, and the green one is in its original colour, and is one of very few that escaped repainting. It stands outside Rochester Museum, Kent
@amz87 ... I think it was just a lazy excuse by a public crelations officer who could not be borthered to find a sensible reply to a simple question, but it has caused some amusement anyway..
Maybe it's because there's an undercover mission going on to move them around the British Isles...here's a blue one in Guernsey...who knows, it may have been a red one once!!
What fun! And what titles the last three suggest: "Little Red Driving Hood", "Baa, Baa Tracker Sheep" and "Kiss me Kate!" I think we are doing a better job than that guy at Royal Mail, don't you?
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@petersonsheri Agreed. Why would they be so protective over the locations of post boxes?!?? O_O
I was told that if you put a warthog in a phone booth and dial 411, the phone booth will turn in to a secret magical warthog transport vessell. The warthog will magically land in your bathtub!! Good luck, and don't let it eat Greg. :)
They might think that these are well enough disguised, but I can tell you exactly where they are: The wooden one is in the National Railway Musem, York, and the green one is in its original colour, and is one of very few that escaped repainting. It stands outside Rochester Museum, Kent
The ultimate Red Postbox disguise: posing as a U.S. Blue Mail Box on a university campus in Central Illinois, USA. hahahaha
@andycoleborn @edpartridge ... Good try, Andy and Ed!
@demetriceanntia ... very clever disguise!
@jannaellen ... I think I can just see it if I tilt the page!
Maybe it's because there's an undercover mission going on to move them around the British Isles...here's a blue one in Guernsey...who knows, it may have been a red one once!!
Hey Arthur, here is a funny from the Internet that seems appropriate...
Post Box Fail
I took this yesterday... wow what a topic, this photo was made for this topic! LOL
Just wanted to keep it topical!!