High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, postal companies including Royal Mail painted a number of post boxes gold. Each gold medallist had a post box painted in recognition of their achievement, usually in their home-town. It marked the first occasion in modern times that the colour of post boxes in the United Kingdom had been changed from their traditional red. The project was launched on 24 July by painting the pillar box at Westminster Abbey, whilst the first athletes' boxes to be painted were in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, and Penzance, Cornwall, England to commemorate the victory by Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the women's coxless pair rowing. In addition to the post boxes a first class stamp depicting each medal winning individual or team was produced. On 2 November 2012 it was announced that the gold postboxes would retain their new colour permanently and would be...

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