Chunghwa Post Co on Wednesday said that it will offer commemorative postcards featuring two mailboxes bent out of shape by a billboard blown loose during Typhoon Soudelor earlier this month.
A set of four postcards were chosen out of 132 submissions from members of the public as part of a Chunghwa Post campaign, designed to give its century-old image a youthful twist, it said.
A limited edition of 10,000 sets of the postcards costing NT$20 per set will go on sale at post offices in Taipei from 8am today, the company said.
The designs encompass different themes, from romance to humor, it said.
One of the postcards features the contorted mailboxes standing out in a crowd of “normal” mailboxes, with a message in the center of the postcard reading: “Keep calm and have fun,” it said.
People have flocked to the intersection of Nanjing E Road and Longjiang Road to have their pictures taken with the mailboxes, whose fate remains undecided.
The post office first planned to remove them from service and exhibit them at the Postal Museum at Taipei’s Beimen Branch, because the crowds they attracted were disrupting traffic.
However, after public opposition, including from former minister of culture Lung Ying-tai (龍應台), the company shelved the relocation plan and said it would revisit the issue at a later date.
Along with their unexpected popularity, the mailboxes have also become an inspiration for designers, with one luxury hotel in downtown Taipei producing cup cakes to resemble the bent boxes.
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