Seeing red
Sir,—l cannot imagine what Telecom is trying to prove by painting our familiar red telephone boxes blue. If the boxes needed a touch-up, why not the same colour? Whoever is behind this latest scheme needs his head read. Things seem to be going from bad to worse. Our posting boxes are no longer' recognisable, and our postal system has gone to the dogs. I am still trying to convince myself that Fast Post is better than airmail. There is a lot to be said for Shanks’s pony. What is next on the agenda? It is a pity our phantom phone box painters did not complete the job and paint all the boxes red again. I applaud them. Let us stop all this nonsense and get Christchurch back to the way it used to be. — Yours, etc., KATY BISHOP. October 2, 1988.
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Press, 7 October 1988, Page 8
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