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Back in 1916 Post Boxes in Dublin would have been painted red rather than green as they are today so someone came up with the idea of painting selected Pillar Boxes red to recreate the Dublin of 1916 but unfortunately they selected some P&T post boxes which would never have been painted red. I
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