Post Box
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January 13, 2006 at 6:50 pm #708361fergalrParticipant
Caught this on my phone in November when going up Lower Abbey St past La Phare cafe.
Someone needs to give this box a lick of paint sharpish.Interesting to see, all the same!! Paint below has stayed in good nick. 😀
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January 13, 2006 at 6:56 pm #765191Rory WParticipant
Filler – not the Royal Mail colours coming through!
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January 13, 2006 at 7:12 pm #765192MorlanParticipant
Is it still there? I HAVE to get a photo of it.
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January 13, 2006 at 7:18 pm #765193fergalrParticipant
I dunno, Rory. Red filler? On an old Irish post box? I’m inclined to believe it’s the original colours. But that’s also because I want to!
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January 13, 2006 at 7:20 pm #765194GrahamHParticipant
More likely the result of a fracas between Marlborough’s resident, eh fracasians.
You get used to the puddles and spatters after a while. -
January 13, 2006 at 7:22 pm #765195fergalrParticipant
I prefer to think of it as a metaphor..of whatever comes to mind!!
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January 14, 2006 at 12:12 pm #765196dc3Participant
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.
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January 14, 2006 at 3:26 pm #765197tommytParticipant
It’s obviously primer. Lot of boxes getting spruced up around town at the moment
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January 16, 2006 at 3:35 pm #765198urbanistoParticipant
Yes, I think thats been repainted now. All shiny and new again.
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January 16, 2006 at 5:36 pm #765199Frank TaylorParticipant
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’.
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January 17, 2006 at 12:17 am #765200MorlanParticipant
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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January 17, 2006 at 12:29 am #765201GrahamHParticipant
🙁
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. -
January 17, 2006 at 1:42 am #765202murphaphParticipant
@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!
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January 17, 2006 at 5:08 pm #765203ctesiphonParticipant
@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.
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January 18, 2006 at 4:20 pm #765204gponParticipant
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.
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January 18, 2006 at 7:18 pm #765205MorlanParticipant
@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!
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