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This might be alright if it wasn't such a bad job.But even so, don't paint postboxes. They're iconic as they are.
There's a street artist in my area who paints all the utility and electrical boxes with interesting designs that celebrate the local community. And that's great, because they were just boring ugly boxes.
If you're going to paint something, paint something that needs it.
Need it or not is a very personal opinion.
After all a red cylinder vs a green cuboid is hardly a clear design winner.
At least be honest and admit nostelga is really the main difference.
Of course. The definition of what is ugly and what isn't is subjective and nostalgia obviously plays a part in that.
But I think it's quite fair to say that almost nobody would consider a postbox to be an eyesore. It's a functional design but it also has aesthetic elements to it which exist purely to make it look nice, and it's doing an okay job at that.
Contrast to a telecom utility box which is purely functional, a rectangular box coloured in a drab gray or green in the hopes that our eyes might just wander over without noticing it is even there. Intentionally avoidant because nobody wants to see it.
So I very much stand by my opinion on which "needs" painting and which does not.
Fair.
I wonfer if you are old enouth to remember the early utility boxes.
They were dark green made from much thicker metel. And had over hanging tops similar to postboxes but rectangular.
Been a good couple of decades since I saw one. But they were more shapped little recess in the double doors etc.
My guess is privatisation made the uriliries consider price and replacability over asthetics.
If so. Thar dose not bode well for posr boxes.