Editing Post box (section)

====Scotland====
{{Main|Pillar Box War}}
In 1952, a number of post boxes were attacked{{how many|date=June 2022}}{{Where|date=June 2022}} in [[Scotland]] in a dispute over the [[regnal number]] adopted by [[Queen Elizabeth II]], which was displayed as the '''E<small>II</small>R '''[[Royal cypher|cypher]]. This included at least one damaged in Gilmerton Road, [[The Inch, Edinburgh]] by a homemade explosive device. This was because many Scottish people did not believe Queen Elizabeth II should take that title. Rather Elizabeth Queen of Scots as Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth before.<ref name="scotsman">{{cite news |last=Mclean |first=David |title=Lost Edinburgh: the Queen and the exploding post box |work=Arts and Culture |publisher=[[The Scotsman]] |date=3 September 2014 |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/lost-edinburgh-queen-and-exploding-post-box-1527366 |access-date=24 June 2022 }}</ref><ref name="edinburghlive">{{cite web |last=Dalgetty |first=Lee |title=The Edinburgh post box war that saw a bomb go off in a housing estate |work=History |publisher=edinburghlive.co.uk |date=6 June 2022 |url=https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/edinburgh-post-box-war-saw-24155234 |access-date=24 June 2022 }}</ref>

Following a [[MacCormick v Lord Advocate|civil case in the Scottish courts]], a compromise was reached where the [[Crown of Scotland]] was placed upon Scottish pillar boxes in place of the [[St Edward's Crown]], without any reference to the particular reigning monarch. To this day Scottish post boxes and Royal Mail vans use the Scottish Crown with no mention of Queen Elizabeth II or King Charles III.<ref name="scotsman"/><ref name="edinburghlive"/>