Royal Mail to change colour of its post boxes from red to gold for first time to celebrate GB Olympi

For years, Britons have strolled down to the street corner to post everything from romantic love letters to mundane tax returns in the familiar red Royal Mail post box.

But for the first time in 140 years, the colour of your local post box could be about to change - to a distinctly golden hue.

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is going on ? Pillar boxes are red as were telephone boxes to make them both easier to see and police boxes dark blue. If they do the one on the corner of my road so help me I'll be down to Halford's pronto for a tin of Holts to put it back to the right colour.