In August 2015 , a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the E coast of Taiwan bringing torrential pelting too trigger-happy air current inwards excess of 200 km/h. As the tempest tore through the isle acre , it left a trail of devastation inwards its wake — trees were carve upwards across the torso , utility poles were ripped off the Earth , too houses collapsed. At to the lowest degree 8 people lost their lives , too some 4 hundreds were injured.
After the tempest had passed , the alone lighthearted relief the locals got from the otherwise nighttime province of affairs were 2 mailboxes inwards downtown Taipei that were bent out of kind when rigid winds picked a signboard from a nearby edifice too crashed it against the poles of the mailboxes. Many Taiwanese mean value the city’s postboxes resemble faces , too this side-by-side yoke , amongst their poles identically bent looked similar a yoke of dogs cocking their heads inwards confusion.
Photo credit: South Communist People's Republic of China Morning Post
The post purpose originally wanted to take away them , exactly the mailboxes —nicknamed "Xiao Hong" (little red) too "Xiao Lu" (little green)— became too then pop amongst locals too equally amongst tourists that the post purpose decided to dice along them inwards their electrical current shape. The mailboxes yet stimulate got letters , too Chunghwa Post forthwith stamps them amongst a exceptional postmark showing the 2 leaning celebrities.
The 2 twisted mailboxes are located some the intersection of Nanjing East Road too Longjiang Road.
Photo credit: South Communist People's Republic of China Morning Post
Photo credit: South Communist People's Republic of China Morning Post
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Sources: Focus Taiwan / Lonely Planet