↑All Royal Mail / GPO post boxes were painted BS 538 Post Office Red between 1874 and 1969. With the introduction of the K8 Telephone kiosk in 1969, a new "red" colour was adopted for GPO street furniture, designated B.S. 539 Post Haste Red. After British Telecom and Royal Mail were split by the British Government, BT continued to use BS539 exclusively, whilst Royal Mail use both BS538 and BS539 in a seemingly random way. Prior to 1859 there was no standard colour although there is a document in the BPMA archive indicating that optionally, the lettering and Royal cypher could be picked out in white or black. In 1859, a bronze green colour became standard until 1874. It took ten years for every box to be repainted during this period).
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2010-06-28T18:58:31Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1630523 Bytes) minor
2010-06-27T04:46:56Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1631933 Bytes) removed different coloring for Antarctica, as there is no real reason it should be in a different color, plus with the coloring changes recently made, the color used for Antarctica has no real difference.
2010-06-25T16:47:35Z Lokal Profil 940x477 (1631960 Bytes) Reverted to version from 17:50, April 18, 2010 then redid colour change in a way which doesn't double the file size.
2010-06-24T01:08:25Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (3261014 Bytes) minor correction
2010-06-23T16:54:17Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (3261008 Bytes) making standard with original
2010-04-18T16:50:58Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1631960 Bytes) minor
2010-04-17T18:54:06Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1631960 Bytes) minor
2010-04-14T18:28:15Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1632024 Bytes) minor correction
2010-04-12T22:09:33Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1633662 Bytes) minor fix
2010-04-11T16:48:00Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1633644 Bytes) synchronization with main image
2010-01-02T20:39:32Z NuclearVacuum 940x477 (1632387 Bytes) Separated the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands from the Falkland Islands (because they are two different entities). Also moved the Elephant Islands into Antarctica.