Post your gold post boxes

[Jaded]

OK - I'll start.

We've got two!  Apparently the Royal Mail view these two as the same in their database so they both get painted. Still, Pete Reed does have two gold medals, so it isn't entirely wrong.

There are about 6 coats of gold paint to go on, it is so thin. Photo when it is done...

[mattc]

Is it worth more than lead guttering?

[LindaG]

Not my photo BTW.

[mcshroom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19137832

[meddyg]

http://www.goldpostboxes.com/

website of the day - how far will you have to cycle for a photo;
Hm 100miles in my case - Fishguard - Cardiff

[Regulator]

As an aside, Royal Mail are not actually allowed to paint post boxes any colour other than the standard red and black livery, with the exception of green and black livery for some the very early post boxes and Air Force blue for surviving George VI airmail boxes.

Gold is only allowed to be applied to the Crown and Royal cypher.  The use of gold paint elsewhere is not permitted.

[LindaG]

You gonna lock 'em up then Reg?

[Jaded]

To The Tower with the lot of them.

Presumably some sour faced misanthrope will try and report them. 

[Jaded]

http://www.goldpostboxes.com/

website of the day - how far will you have to cycle for a photo;
Hm 100miles in my case - Fishguard - Cardiff

Quarter of a mile in my case. Ours isn't up there on the map yet. Paint still wet.

[rogerzilla]

Swindon is probably the furthest from a gold postbox that it's possible to be, if you discount the lightly populated areas where there be dragons etc.  On the other hand, we have produced at least one half decent darts player.

[marcusjb]

OK - I'll start.

We've got two!  Apparently the Royal Mail view these two as the same in their database so they both get painted. Still, Pete Reed does have two gold medals, so it isn't entirely wrong.

We also have a Peter Reed one here in Chiswick (as that is where he lives now):

[Regulator]

To The Tower with the lot of them.

Presumably some sour faced misanthrope will try and report them. 

***Prepares his grink...***



 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I'm going to try to get into town this week and get a photo of the Chris Hoy one before Reg has it deleted.

[Arch]

The nearest to York seems to be Huddersfield, which isn't near at all. However there look to be a few in and around Manchester...

Where, incidentally, we saw an airmail blue one on Saturday, something I didn't know existed. Luckily, an info board nearby explained it.

[mcshroom]

Huddersfield's a lot closer to York than Colne is to Whitehaven though.

Nice to see the two closest ones to me are cycling medallists

[Snakehips]

Anybody know if there is one in Teddington yet ? I'm sure somebody on telly referred to Mo Farah as a Teddington boy !

[Clare]

Our nearest is either Sherbourne or London. Think I'd better get some gold wool and knit a post box cosy for our local box.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Looks like my nearest is Jaded's. So we'll have to share - unless Regulator's already been out painting the townboxes red.

[TheLurker]

Swindon is probably the furthest from a gold postbox that it's possible to be, if you discount the lightly populated areas where there be dragons etc.  On the other hand, we have produced at least one half decent darts player.

It seems the horsy-prancy types have just won a team Gold, so there'll be one in Ampney St. Peter which is not so terribly far (geographically) from Swindon.  I wonder whether or not Deustche Post will tart up a postbox in Mainz? After all it's not just the cycling that can poach "German" talent.

ETA.  Not sure if Ampney St. Peter is big enough to have a postbox.

[Jaded]

Here are our two main ones.



Pete Reed actually has 4 post boxes: two as shown here, one outside his mum's and one in Chiswick.

[barakta]

Yet for paralympic gold winners they won't be doing individual stamps, but "group stamps" ecause of "logistics"

http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/news/royal-mail-stamp-collection

I call bullshit and direct discrimination to the "excuse" as I reckon if Olympic team GB got 42 medals they wouldn't suddenly stop doing individual stamps for those athletes.

Why couldn't they have done some kind of grouping for all of them by sport or something to keep the numbers "manageable".

Oh well, at least they didn't make the paralympian stamps Actually 2nd Class Stamps!

*scowl*

[Regulator]

Yet for paralympic gold winners they won't be doing individual stamps, but "group stamps" ecause of "logistics"

http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/news/royal-mail-stamp-collection

I call bullshit and direct discrimination to the "excuse" as I reckon if Olympic team GB got 42 medals they wouldn't suddenly stop doing individual stamps for those athletes.

Why couldn't they have done some kind of grouping for all of them by sport or something to keep the numbers "manageable".

Oh well, at least they didn't make the paralympian stamps Actually 2nd Class Stamps!

*scowl*

Give 'em time...

I'm meeting Mark Hammond from the EHRC next week.  I shall raise it with him.

[Wowbagger]

Anybody know if there is one in Teddington yet ? I'm sure somebody on telly referred to Mo Farah as a Teddington boy!

You'd never guess from the hairstyle.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Yet for paralympic gold winners they won't be doing individual stamps, but "group stamps" ecause of "logistics"

http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/news/royal-mail-stamp-collection

I call bullshit and direct discrimination to the "excuse" as I reckon if Olympic team GB got 42 medals they wouldn't suddenly stop doing individual stamps for those athletes.

Why couldn't they have done some kind of grouping for all of them by sport or something to keep the numbers "manageable".

Oh well, at least they didn't make the paralympian stamps Actually 2nd Class Stamps!

*scowl*

@RoyalMail has had quite a few tweets about it, I believe. 

[Manotea]

This certainly has all the hallmarks of a bright idea which was not thought all the way through...