As many of you know, I spent my summer holidays in Greece. And obviously I have some postal pictures ready to be shared. I hope you like them!
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| A normal post office in a middle-sized town. Do you know the log of ELTA (Hellenic Post)? It is the Olympian god Hermes, the messenger of gods. |
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| At first I was surprised that there is so much postal blue, as I am most used to yellow. These are like post office boxes, but in the street. |
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| Some postal vehicles |
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| An standard mail box in a street of... Sorry, I don't remember! |
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| They look more elegant together. This is the main post office in Athens. |
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| I must say that most of the mail boxes in the street, especially in the big cities, have been vandalized. This one isn't the worst I saw. Sometimes I didn't dare to mail my post there! |
The banks of PO boxes always fascinated me in Greece. The post boxes that I saw in Belgium cities when visiting had a lot of graffiti on them but of a slightly better class.
ReplyDeleteIn Spain we don't have these banks of PO boxes, nor in Morocco.
DeleteIt's a pity that most postboxes are vandalised in Greece... I saw dozens the mailboxes like this one in the picture :(
Here in Boston postboxs are also blue!
ReplyDeleteIndeed a pity of the vandalized postboxes. But I love to see these Greek Post items, thank you for showing them to us!
ReplyDeleteI have read that they are changing a lot of mailboxes there. I hope the new ones won't be vandalized!
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