It is because post boxes have come to represent such a strong symbol of national identity that makes them the perfect symbol to illustrate an aspect of the European Union’s effect on the sense of national identity within its twenty-seven individual member states. Painting post boxes blue [the colour commonly associated with the EU] changes their traditional role, as symbols of national identity and history. Presenting the public with a new ambiguous homogenised object. These blue post boxes are not anti-Europe they just represent an observation of the possible trade off a united Europe represents.