A POSTBOX that was painted gold in honour of superstar heptathlete Jessica Ennis has been vandalised.
The box, in the centre of Jess's home city Sheffield, became a tourist attraction within 24 hours of being painted.
Royal Mail decided to celebrate the achievements of our top medalists with the postboxes.
But within days of the 26-year-old's amazing effort, a lout decided to cover her newly created monument in graffiti.
However postal chiefs sprinted to repair the damage, saying the box was "a point of pride”.
A spokeswoman said: “We are extremely disappointed that someone has chosen to vandalise the gold postbox.”
Crowds gathered in the city centre on Sunday to watch the first gold coat being applied, the day after Ennis came first in the heptathlon.
Honour ... Royal Mail paint the Sheffield postbox for Jess
The box outside the City Hall is overlooked by a giant 80ft poster of the Olympian on the front of the John Lewis building.
People stopped to take photographs as a team applied a coat of primer followed by four coats of gold.
It has since become a tourist attraction, with one man reportedly travelling all the way from London to see it.
Newlyweds Lizzie and Steve Roche, who married on the day Ennis won he heptathlon gold, also posed for pictures beside it.
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