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A Kirklees councillor has told of his despair after people have vandalised Royal Mail postboxes in Lepton and Almondbury with outlandish colours.
Bernard McGuin, (Con, Almondbury), spoke out as a postbox at the top of Southfield Road, Almondbury, was painted yellow earlier this week. Other postboxes in the area as well as one in Imperial Road, Marsh, have been painted lime green by someone calling himself The Green Pimpernel. And one in Clr McGuin’s ward has been repainted turquoise.
And it’s not just postboxes that have been repainted, as even the sacrosanct former Police Box on Northgate, Almondbury, has not escaped the painter’s brush with its frontage daubed in bright yellow the other day.
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Clr McGuin said: “When I first drew this to YorkshireLive’s attention I was worried that copycats might muscle in on this and I think that is was is happening. I think it might be down to two or three individuals and I have to tell them that there’s a possibility that one of them has been caught by the police on CCTV.
“It has got beyond a joke and I hope the authorities will get to grips with the situation as soon as possible. It seems like whoever is doing this is going through the colours of the rainbow.”
A Royal Mail spokesman said when YorkshireLive first reported this matter: “We do not know who repainted these postboxes, and are reporting this matter to the police. We will be repainting the boxes in the iconic red as soon as possible.”
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