Beginning in 1909, all mail collection boxes were painted a dark green to avoid confusion with emergency and fire equipment. Unlike Canadian mailboxes, which were painted red, American mail collection boxes were originally painted in red or green. Mail collection box was first suggested in 1894, following the successful use of such designs in Canada, and quickly became a fixture on American city street corners. As mail volume grew, the Post Office Department gradually replaced pillar mailboxes with larger free-standing models, though many of the pillar boxes continued in service as late as the 1960s. By the 1880s, these pillar boxes were made of heavy cast iron to deter theft or vandalism. American collection boxes were initially designed to be hung or supported, and were mounted on support pillars, lamp-posts, telegraph poles, or even the sides of buildings. The United States Post Office Department began installing public mail collection boxes in the 1850s outside post offices and on street corners in large Eastern cities. Because these boxes were lightweight and easy to steal, they disappeared frequently later boxes were made of cast iron and could weigh up to 45 kilograms (99 lb). The first public letter boxes (post boxes) in Russia appeared in 1848 in St. One has been painted in the 'wrong' town. One was defaced briefly by a vandal with graffiti. In 2012, to celebrate Olympic gold medals for Team GB, selected boxes were painted gold. The first boxes to be painted red were in London in July 1874, although it would be nearly 10 years before all the boxes had been repainted. Between 18 the hexagonal Penfold post box became the standard design for pillar boxes and it was during this period that red was first adopted as the standard colour. Green was adopted as the standard colour for the early Victorian post boxes. In 1859 the design was improved, and this became the first National Standard pillar box. In 1856, Richard Redgrave of the Department of Science and Art designed an ornate pillar box for use in London and other large cities. In 1853 the first pillar box in the United Kingdom was installed at Botchergate, Carlisle.
Roadside wall boxes first appeared in 1857 as a cheaper alternative to pillar boxes, especially in rural districts. In the British Isles, the first red pillar post boxes were erected in Guernsey in 1852. A note attached to an old private posting box in St John University ( York)
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