Don't Mess With the G.P.O.

Europe is at war. Britain stands (almost) alone and faces the Nazi threat as well as foes nearer home: communists, Irish Republicans, Scottish rugby supporters and Liverpool dockers. Britain has passed the Defence Regulations to save the country. Empires, dynasties and countries will soon fall. Boche jackboots have already krieged their blitzes in Poland and soon a swath of the continent will also see the Hun cross their borders.

But what you don’t do, what you NEVER do, is mess with the General Post Office. Nations may be about to fall and be subjugated under a Nazi yoke but some things are beyond the pale. What will not happen within this sceptred isle though, is that British red pillar boxes will be allowed to be defaced. They carry royal cyphers. They stand in all weathers; erect, firm and at the ready, like all Britons. They shall not be covered in A.R.P. notices…

Notices on Pillar Boxes - Das ist Verboten