I got one of our off-duty policemen to take a picture of the historic Sok Kwu Wan pillar mailbox, originating from between 1910 - 1936. Many thanks!
This is just behind Sok Kwu Wan Main Street, close to the police station, one of only 86 of these mailboxes remaining in all of Hong Kong:

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Those are pretty cool.

Note: The article says 86 have been removed in the last decade. Only 58 are still in use, not 86.

It was a shame when those whores of a thousand years at the PO (or whatever PC minded patriot in charge of colonial icon white-washing) decided that all the red mail boxes should be painted that awful green colour just before the handover ten years ago. Your picture of the antique box in SKW certainly looks rather sad. I guess they'd like to remove them all and display them somewhere with the old star ferry clock .

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Yes, it's in use, otherwise the P.O. would have taken it away to storage, like the 86 other similar mailboxes they've taken out of commission in the last decade. Their goal is to get rid of them, not to install them in different locations.

They most likely won't ever re-install one, keeping them in storage till they'll destroy them, except maybe putting a few into museums.

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