Editing Post box (section)

=== Colours ===
[[File:Map of colours of post boxes.svg|thumb|upright=1.4|Colors of post boxes for standard mailings]]

;Red: [[Argentina]], Australia, [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belgium]], Canada, Denmark ''([[Post Danmark]])'', [[Gibraltar]], [[Greece]] ''(express post)'', [[Greenland]], [[Hungary]], [[Iceland]], [[India]], [[Isle of Man]], [[Israel]], Italy ''(domestic post)'', [[South Korea]], Japan, [[Jersey]], [[Macau]], [[Malaysia]], [[Malta]], [[Mauritius]], [[Mexico]], [[Monaco]], [[Netherlands]] – surviving heritage and PTT boxes, [[New Zealand]], [[Norway]] ''(national and international mail)'', [[Pakistan]], [[Poland]], [[Portugal]], [[Romania]], Spain ''(express mail)'', South Africa, [[Sri Lanka]], [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] ''(airmail and prompt delivery)'', [[Thailand]], [[Uganda]] ''([[Posta Uganda]])'', United Kingdom<ref>All Royal Mail / GPO post boxes were painted BS 538 Post Office Red between 1874 and 1969. With the introduction of the K8 [[Telephone booth|Telephone kiosk]] in 1969, a new "red" colour was adopted for GPO street furniture, designated [[British Standards|BS]] 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).</ref>
;Yellow: [[Algeria]], Australia ''(Express Post)'', [[Austria]], [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]], [[Brazil]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Croatia]], [[Cyprus]] ''(red before 1960)'', [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|D.R.Congo]] ''([[Congolese Posts and Telecommunications Corporation|scpt]])'', [[Finland]] (2nd class), France, Germany ''([[Deutsche Post]])'', [[Greece]] ''(regular and international mail)'', [[Iran]], [[Lithuania]], [[Malaysia]] ''(Express Post)'', [[Montenegro]], [[Morocco]], [[Norway]] ''(local mail)'', Russia ''(1st Class)'', [[Rwanda]] ''([[National Post Office (Rwanda)|iposita]])'', [[Serbia]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], Spain ''(regular mail)'', [[Sweden]] ''(national and international mail)'', [[Switzerland]] (and [[Liechtenstein]]), [[Tunisia]], [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]], [[Vatican City]], [[Vietnam]]
;Blue: [[Belarus]], [[Finland]] ''(1st class)'', [[Faroe Islands]], Germany ''(many private postal companies)'', [[Guernsey]], [[Alderney]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Sark]], Italy ''(Air Mail only)'', United Kingdom ''(Air Mail – 1933–1940)'', [[Portugal]] ''(1st Class (Blue Mail) only)'', [[Sweden]] ''(local mail)'', Russia, United States
;Green: [[People's Republic of China|China]], Hong Kong ''(red before 1997)'', [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] ''(regular mail)'', [[Sudan]] ''([[SudaPost]])'', [[Republic of Ireland]] ''(red before 1922)'', ''Some heritage boxes in the United Kingdom, notably [[Stoke on Trent]], [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]] and [[Scunthorpe]]''
;Orange: [[Czech Republic]], [[Estonia]], [[Indonesia]], [[Netherlands]] (''[[TNT N.V.]]/[[PostNL]] (red before 2006))''
;White: [[San Marino]], Singapore
;Gray: [[Philippines]]
;Gold: United Kingdom ''(only for [[2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold post boxes|2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics gold medal winners]])''<ref name="ennisgold">{{cite news |date=8 August 2012 |title=Jessica Ennis gold postbox in Sheffield vandalised |publisher=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-19177730 |access-date=8 August 2012 |quote=A postbox that was painted gold in [[Jessica Ennis]]'s home city of Sheffield, to celebrate her Olympic triumph, has been vandalised.}}</ref><ref name="trottgold">{{cite news |date=8 August 2012 |title=Laura Trott golden postbox painted in Harlow by mistake |publisher=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19137832 |access-date=8 August 2012 |quote=The Royal Mail has promised to paint a postbox in Olympic cycle champion [[Laura Kenny|Laura Trott]]'s home town gold, after first painting one in the wrong place.}}</ref><ref name="ukgoldboxes">In 2012 UK post boxes mostly in the hometowns of [[Team GB]] gold medal winners in the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] were painted gold.</ref>
;Black: United Kingdom ''(only for 2020 [[Black History Month#United Kingdom (1987)|Black History Month]])''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54344961|title=Black History Month: Postboxes painted to honour black Britons|date=30 September 2020|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/some-efforts-to-mark-black-history-month-tokenistic-say-activists|title=Activists criticise 'tokenistic' efforts after rebrand of Royal Mail postboxes|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|date=1 October 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref>