Yes, at the time I wrote the original comment, in the Wikipedia page linked there was a comment in the lead section of the article: "The Royal Mail no longer uses red rubber bands.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}". And given that the comment I was replying to seemed to be from someone local I thought they might be in a position to have or find a reference and update the Wikipedia article with that, since other comments here seemed to agree that the rubber bands are not currently red.

However that sentence has just been removed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Mail_rubber...