In 2004 in Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland, I saw this postbox. I noticed that it had started out as a Great Britain mail box - note the E R VII! Edward the seventh followed Queen Victoria in 1901 and reigned until 1910. In the U.K. post boxes are red, in Ireland they are green.
I asked the people in the post office about the box, wondering how there happened to be a U.K. mailbox in the Republic of Ireland. They said that that was the one they were sent when the requested a new box just a couple of years before. It seems the postal authorities recycle - green, indeed!
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