Blue collection boxes

USPS
139,409

blue collection boxes

Iconically ours. There are 139,409 iconic blue collection boxes in use on street corners across the nation.

* | Tags: Fun facts USPS Fact #536 | April 17, 2024

About those iconic blue boxes…

They weren’t always blue. Before 1970, they were green, then red, then white, then green again, and finally — beginning in 1955 — red, white and blue.