Editing Post box (section)

=== United Kingdom ===

====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"/>

====The Troubles====
During 1939 a number of bombs were put in post boxes by the [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|IRA]] as part of their [[S-Plan#Events June 1939 - December 1939|S-Plan]] campaign. When the [[Provisional IRA]] blew up the Arndale shopping centre in the [[1996 Manchester bombing]], one of the few things to survive unscathed was a Victorian pillar box dating from 1887 (a type A Jubilee pillar).

In [[Northern Ireland]] several red Royal Mail post boxes were painted green by [[Irish Republicans]] in early 2009, in order to resemble [[An Post]]'s post boxes in the [[Republic of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Louise |last=Quinn |date=4 February 2009 |title=Green postbox row MLA told to say sorry |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/green-postbox-row-mla-told-to-say-sorry-14169746.html |work=[[The Belfast Telegraph]] |access-date=20 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Anger over green postboxes |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/anger-over-green-postboxes-15000124.html |work=[[The Belfast Telegraph]] |date=10 November 2010 |access-date=20 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Seeing red on green postboxes |url=http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/seeing-red-on-green-postboxes-1-2129548# |work=[[Derry Journal]] |date=10 September 2008 |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503102338/http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/seeing-red-on-green-postboxes-1-2129548 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>