Post Box

Filler – not the Royal Mail colours coming through!

Is it still there? I HAVE to get a photo of it.

More likely the result of a fracas between Marlborough’s resident, eh fracasians.
You get used to the puddles and spatters after a while.

Very many post boxes in the Dublin area are in a shameful condition – with eroded paint showing undercoats, rust etc.

It is likely that some of the older ones were painted with lead oxide red paints to protect from rust in the past, which are now revealed.

Curiously, in most other countries, whatever the condition of the post office revenue accounts, post boxes are maintained, kept clean and painted. Indeed we used to do that too. Grafiti was removed regularly.

No more alas.

It’s obviously primer. Lot of boxes getting spruced up around town at the moment

Yes, I think thats been repainted now. All shiny and new again.

Does anyone know why some pillar boxes have had cuboid rucksacks added? Postboxes are 3D symbols of the postal service and the message they send out is ‘we just don’t care’.

It’s a shame to see some of the old hole-in-the-wall type post boxes rotting away, Here’s one in Shankill.

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A sorry sight indeed. And you’d have to wonder how a post box can just lose its door like that :rolleyes:

Anyone detecting a slight South-North bias in the restoration of the city’s pillar boxes? From Fitzwilliam Square to Kildare Street, to St. Stephen’s Green, to the Stillorgan dual-carriageway I noted today – all beautifully finished or primed. Yet Talbot Street, the closest street in all of Dublin with pillar boxes to the GPO has its pillars in their usual shameful decrepit state.
And these are decent specimens, not the plasticy muck you see elsewhere around the city.

@Graham Hickey wrote:

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A sorry sight indeed. And you’d have to wonder how a post box can just lose its door like that :rolleyes:

Anyone detecting a slight South-North bias in the restoration of the city’s pillar boxes? From Fitzwilliam Square to Kildare Street, to St. Stephen’s Green, to the Stillorgan dual-carriageway I noted today – all beautifully finished or primed. Yet Talbot Street, the closest street in all of Dublin with pillar boxes to the GPO has its pillars in their usual shameful decrepit state.
And these are decent specimens, not the plasticy muck you see elsewhere around the city.

Well the box refered to in the OP is on the northside and has been lovingly repainted with it’s final coat. I passed by it today and it really jumped out at me how well it looked. Hopefully the whole lot are being done. Anyone ever see the green box on the Falls Rd? It’s gas the way the locals have painted it!

@Frank Taylor wrote:

Does anyone know why some pillar boxes have had cuboid rucksacks added? Postboxes are 3D symbols of the postal service and the message they send out is ‘we just don’t care’.

The ‘rucksacks’ 🙂 serve as temporary storage locations for the deliveries- a van deposits post in them for the local postman to collect before distribution to the houses, rather than sending the postman out on his bike with a mountain of items.
Agreed, though- they are pretty unsightly, particularly when compared to our cast iron post boxes. Though as was pointed out to me a while ago by a friend (actually in the context of DCC’s signage in public parks), wait 30 years and we’ll be lamenting the further cheapening of design, reminiscing fondly about the style of the late 90s/early 2000s. Not a comment on their innate design quality, but an observation on how design seems to be in terminal decline.

Also- there is a post box on Mount Pleasant Square in Ranelagh that was painted red a couple of years ago- crudely painted, but red all the same (and definitely painted, rather than primed or paint showing through). Obviously local jokers/vandals, but it made for a startling sight all the same. Didn’t last long- either the local residents or An Post quickly rectified the situation.

I don’t know about Mount Pleasant Square, but a couple of years ago on Dartmouth Square (also Ranelagh) a pillar box was painted red by a film production company making a film, set, presumably, in the U.K. Incidentally my late uncle claimed that he once recived a long overdue package of his developed slides from Kodak UK accompanied by a note apologising for a mysterious and unsolved chemical fault that had swapped red colours for green. The photos included Dublin pillar boxes.

@gpon wrote:

Incidentally my late uncle claimed that he once recived a long overdue package of his developed slides from Kodak UK accompanied by a note apologising for a mysterious and unsolved chemical fault that had swapped red colours for green. The photos included Dublin pillar boxes.

Your late uncle was a good story teller!