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What are all these mysterious new green pillar boxes?

  • 29-03-2009 02:18PM
    #1
    Mad Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭


    A few weeks ago what I thought was a new post box appeared at the end of our road. It is a rectangular box on a pillar about postbox size and a perfect postbox green but it turns out it isn't a postbox. In fact it has no identifying marks on it at all. I thought no more about it until I began seeing these boxes all over Dublin, all of them fairly new. There's a big bunch of them around the Stilllorgan area of Dublin.

    They are not beside traffic lights or road lights and they bear no distinguishing marks. Anybody know what these are?

    Conspiracy theories would be welcomed.


Comments

  • #2
    spurious
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    They are for storing post so that postmen/women do not have to go all the way back to the delivery office. There have been threads on this before, but I'm too lazy to search.


  • #3
    Vagabondo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Vagabondo


    If you don't see them, it doesn't mean they are not whatching you.


  • #4
    jos28
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    spurious wrote: »
    They are for storing post so that postmen/women do not have to go all the way back to the delivery office. There have been threads on this before, but I'm too lazy to search.

    Does that mean that if you get one of those 'missed the postman/unable to deliver' notices on Friday(as I did), that the postman just deposits all your stuff into one of those boxes for the weekend.


  • #5
    spurious
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    I think important or large stuff goes back to the Delivery Office.
    I understand them to be for ordinary post. The postman sets off in the morning with whatever his bike or he can carry and a post office van goes round and fills these boxes so that he/she can pick up their next lot without going back to the Delivery Office.


  • #6
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,145 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    jos28 wrote: »
    Does that mean that if you get one of those 'missed the postman/unable to deliver' notices on Friday(as I did), that the postman just deposits all your stuff into one of those boxes for the weekend.
    In my area, that type of post (usually parcels or registered mail) is delivered seperately by a postman in a van rather than by the normal postman.


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