Post Boxes

Look around and you will notice colours being used to give the public some information. Look at your calendar. In addition to Sundays, some other days are also in red to tell us that they are holidays.

Red post boxes on the roadside are a familiar sight. They are not boxes but short pillars, about five feet high. Hence they are called pillar boxes. Letters to be posted are dropped into them. There are red boxes outside some shops. They too are letter boxes.

In some post offices you will see blue pillar boxes. They are for air-mail letters. In Colombo city there are green pillars at some road junctions. Only letters address in Colombo should be posted in the green pillars.