Post boxes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 2025
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 2 July 2025
Posted as part of Becky’s SimplyRed
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Green or Red?
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Post boxes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 2025
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 2 July 2025
Posted as part of Becky’s SimplyRed
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Hmm, tough choice. I’ll take one of each.
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A good choice 😉
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What an interesting snippet from history
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It’s a fascinating country for that – the Portuguese, Dutch and British left a massive impact – not all as positive as the postal service 😦
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I feel just a little treacherous, but I do like the green one, Debs xx
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No problem there, Jo. We were all green boxes roughly 1859-1874, when people complained that it was hard to find the green boxes, especially in rural areas! But it took about 10 years to repaint them all red….
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And though I like it, it doesn’t look at all natural now, Debs!
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I’m sorry, but post boxes (and buses) ought to be red. Green and yellow need not apply.
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🙂 a lot of people agreed with you Margaret as they just couldn’t distinguish the green ones from the surrounding trees and bushes !!!
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🤣
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Interesting they are both leaning towards each other. Red for me thanks!
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Not sure if it’s affection or land subsidence
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Classics!
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I am a red traditionalist
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Yers, red has a much more welcoming feel
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Interesting! An early ‘internet’ connection portal. My how far we have come.
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Absolutely
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they look very English in style?!
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Yes, we left a lot of things behind when we left. I had several local people thanking me as a Brit for giving them trains and knowledge of the English language. As for the post boxes, whilst we did have a phase of green post boxes in Britain, the colours in Sri Lanka were used to mean the type of post rather than being tied to era. As far as I can tell, the green meant local post in Colombo, while the red ones were general post. There were also some blue ones, not for air mail as our blue ones used to be, but for post to metro cities.
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ahha! Things I learn from Squares 😀
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red
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