Team GPB

The post box. Iconic, a masterpiece of design and the start of a journey for letters and cards and post-cards that bring joy when they eventually fall onto the welcome mat of their intended recipient. And red. Not just red but Red, post box red, heritage red, institution red.

Not any more, in a stroke of paint and absolute genius, the Post Office is painting one post box in the home town of each British Olympic champion gold. They look stunning, more stunning still is that such has been the success of Team GB that the Post Office are reportedly running low on gold paint.

Three things must immediately happen.

Somebody will have to be the first person to visit all the golden post boxes and post a letter in each one.

This will then be the Golden Post Box Challenge. Like Monroe bagging or acquiring STDs you can eke this activity out for years if you so wish but records could also be set in doing them all in the quickest time, by public transport. I can already see the need for at least three different guide books and also a book that you get stamped every time you post a letter from a GPB. Purists will wish to visit them in the Order in which medals were won.

Finally a celebrity, preferably a comedian such as Al Murray, needs to front a television series where he visits each GPB. The format will either be Al on a bicycle wearing a flying helmet and taking a sideways look at whatever town he's visiting, or Al on a tandem wearing a flying helmet with the Olympian in question on the back and hearing Their Story. The flying helmet is, however, crucial.