Ich habe gerade diesen alten Briefkasten in Letterkenny entdeckt und sein Zustand ist ein Skandal! Für mich sind Briefkästen ein sehr ergreifendes Symbol des Irentums und erst letztes Jahr habe ich in Derry, in katholischen Gegenden, einen roten Briefkasten entdeckt, der von den Einheimischen grün gestrichen worden war.
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Von Dry-S0up
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Those cast Iron ones were actually old British ones that had the Royal Emblem removed and painted green. So there’s fuck all Irish about them!
Also, its not in that bad a state, just needs a sanding and painting. Hardly in „wreck and ruin“.
Also, I envy you that this is the most pressing issue of your day today. Congrats!
Grab a paintbrush and some green paint.
Cast iron pal. You could sink one of them to the bottom of the sea for a century and it’d be grand. Just needs a sandblast and a coat of paint.
Having postboxes isnt irish, telephone booths need preserving too with the eircom callcards?
Are we surprised anymore 😢😢😢
go complain to an post about it if its such an issue
It aint that deep bro. Theres probably still a royal mail insignia somewhere on that yoke.
Speak with the local tidy towns committee. Id say they might not be aware of it and could add it to their cleanup
Iv seen a queen Vicky one so it’s least 125 years old, though it’s a wall box not a pillar, the door will have the king or queens name on it to date it
Isn’t this adapted from British culture??
Unrelated to the weird handwinging over a post-box in need of a coat of paint.
I used to work overlooking the, now gone, post office depot on Cardiff Lane in Dublin, and they had a few o these old post boxes lying around and I was always shocked to see how deep into the ground they went!
The preservation of stuff like that should be done by a local group. We have way to much heritage to fund looking after all of it. There are hundreds of castles and abbeys in need of work to stop them crumbling. All this needs is to remove the rust and paint it again.
With the crowd that usually hangs around that building it would be wasted effort
Rack and ruin
We’d find anything to complain about
„*A poignant symbol of Anglo-Irishness“
Sign them over to the dept of defence, they can be used as a bijou pillbox for when the Russians invade.
To the untrained eye, every old thing looks antique.
*rack and ruin
“national monument”
ffs
Real cornerstone of Irish tourism there
Rack and ruin.
One of the first things we did after booting the Brits was painting the postboxes, like a dog marking it’s territory. It was the most visible symbol of independence across the country. In every town and village, no matter how forgotten or remote, the postboxes could be seen as a symbol of change.
Now amusingly enough the original pillar boxes installed in the 1850’s were actually green, not just in Ireland but across the UK. People complained that they were hard to spot so the Royal Mail painted them all red about 20 years later. 50 years after that we went and painted them green again.
Obviously the neglect is a minor issue in the grand scheme of things but it would be nice to see them well maintained.
Maybe relax with calling it a scandal though
That’s jus this country. No sense of historical pride or preservation
The amount of gorgeous 100+ year old trees I’ve seen cut down in the last few years is an absolute tragedy. Our country is going to be a grey concrete hellhole in the next few years
Get onto your local GPO, its their responsibility to maintain them. I worked part time for An Post years ago. Painting post boxes was a handy summer job for summer part timers