Gold post boxes how long

Sadly, Royal Mail has decided not to commemorate the champions with gold post boxes. The scheme was, apparently, a one-off gesture to celebrate our role of host nation in If Royal Mail changes its mind, it'll need to buy a few pots of paint for the London area. New gold medalists include golfer Justin Rose , who lives in a riverside flat in Putney, the lucky devil. Men's eight coxswain Phelan Hill is another Putney resident and, no doubt, many of the other champion rowers have connections with the Thames.

Upriver in Kingston, for example, a gold post box could be painted for local boy Mohamed Sbihi , who claimed a gold in the coxless four. The best things to do in London. The must-read London articles.

The coolest London events from our partners. In the end it was quite a simple decision to make. The Royal Mail say as their technicians had a lot of painting to do very quickly during the Olympics, not all the golden boxes were painted as well as they should have - so each one will be stripped back to the bare metal and properly repainted with a new longer-lasting golden paint which will last for many years. The company said boxes painted gold across the UK.

The Royal Mail said it believed it was the first time it had permanently changed the colour of its distinctive red postboxes.

They were painted gold to mark gold medals won by Britons in the Olympics and Paralympics and have become "cherished local landmarks'".

Royal Mail's chief executive, Moya Greene, said: "We are delighted at the way people took to this simple idea. I am pleased to confirm that these postboxes will be kept gold permanently. The gold postboxes are located in the home towns and cities of gold medal-winners. This article is more than 9 years old.