Remembering Hong Kong’s Post Boxes

So it seems Hong Kong’s post boxes are to have their royal cyphers covered up to stop “confusion”! Not sure what the confusion was exactly – I’m pretty sure everyone in Hong Kong knows what a post box looks like and didn’t think they were just boxes to drop letters to the Queen into!! But Hong Kong Post thinks differently – or rather some bureaucrat in Beijing thinks they should think differently. The Hong Kong Conservancy Association is having a go at convincing Hong Kong Post otherwise but orders are orders it seems. More here.

The 59 old post boxes remaining in use in Hong Kong are of different ages, including seven with the royal cyphers GRV for King George V, two GRVI for King George VI, 49 with ERII for Queen Elizabeth II, and just one with a Crown of Scotland in Central, according to the website of HK Post-Box Search Team. After the handover, the previously red post-boxes, brought over from England, were painted green.

Several cities in China used to have some nice Republican era post boxes still in use – such as these in Dalian (that were there in 2009 at least)…but Hong Kong will apparently have to change….