Post Box - Colours

Colours

Colours for post boxes
Red Argentina • Australia • Bahamas • Barbados • Belgium • Canada • Denmark • Gibraltar • Greece (express post) • Greenland • Hungary • Iceland • India • Isle of Man • Israel • Italy (domestic post) • South Korea • Japan • Jersey • Macau • Malaysia • Malta • Mauritius • Mexico • Monaco • Netherlands - surviving heritage and PTT boxes • New Zealand • Norway (national and international mail) • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Spain (express mail) • South Africa • Sri Lanka • Thailand • United Kingdom
Yellow Algeria • Australia (Express Post) • Austria • Bosnia-Herzegovina • Brazil • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus (red before 1960) • Finland (2nd class) • France • Germany (Deutsche Post) • Greece (regular & international mail) • Iran • Lithuania • Malaysia (Express Post) • Montenegro • Morocco • Norway (local mail) • Russia (1st Class) • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain (regular mail) • Sweden (national and international mail) • Switzerland (& Liechtenstein) • Tunisia • Turkey • Ukraine • Vatican City • Vietnam
Blue Belarus • Finland (1st class) • Faroe Islands • Germany (many private postal companies) • Guernsey • Alderney • Dominican Republic • Sark • Italy (Air Mail only) • United Kingdom (Air Mail - 1933-1940) • Portugal (1st Class (Blue Mail) only) • Sweden (local mail) • Russia • United States
Green China • Hong Kong (red before 1997) • Taiwan • Ireland • Some heritage boxes in the United Kingdom, notably Stoke on Trent, Rochester & Scunthorpe
Orange Czech Republic • Estonia • Indonesia • Netherlands (TNT N.V./PostNL (red before 2006))
White San Marino • Singapore
Gray Philippines
Gold United Kingdom

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    “Your wits can’t thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You’ve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
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    “The sounding cataract
    Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
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    Unborrowed from the eye.—”
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    And the borealic iceberg;”
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