what else is on the BBC website....let's have a look....whilst still on the theme of postboxes...southampton football team conflated with postboxes?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-38771036

 "Post boxes in the home towns of Team GB gold medallists were memorably painted gold as a permanent change after the London 2012 Olympics."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19093049

 

let me see...it is kind of uncanny...what the BBC might or might not be signalling here...go figure: