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Police alerted as postboxes painted again (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

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Royal Mail have alerted police after postboxes in Kent were vandalised just six months after they were spray-painted like Mr Blobby and Creme Eggs.

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Of course. The definition of what is ugly and what isn't is subjective and nostalgia obviously plays a part in that.

But I think it's quite fair to say that almost nobody would consider a postbox to be an eyesore. It's a functional design but it also has aesthetic elements to it which exist purely to make it look nice, and it's doing an okay job at that.

Contrast to a telecom utility box which is purely functional, a rectangular box coloured in a drab gray or green in the hopes that our eyes might just wander over without noticing it is even there. Intentionally avoidant because nobody wants to see it.

So I very much stand by my opinion on which "needs" painting and which does not.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Fair.

I wonfer if you are old enouth to remember the early utility boxes.

They were dark green made from much thicker metel. And had over hanging tops similar to postboxes but rectangular.

Been a good couple of decades since I saw one. But they were more shapped little recess in the double doors etc.

My guess is privatisation made the uriliries consider price and replacability over asthetics.

If so. Thar dose not bode well for posr boxes.