UPDATE: There appears to be some sort of disconnect over at the Seattle Times. Yesterday, staff at the Times confirmed they were selling boxes, but according to an email I just received from ST spokeswoman Jill Mackie:

We are not selling boxes on a broad basis to the public at this time. It may be that we will decide to do so once final determinations have been made. We will be sure to notify the public if we do decide to sell individual boxes to the public. Thanks for your help.

If you're one of those sentimental types that's still looking to get their hands on a PI box, there is hope. But it's gonna cost you.

The Seattle Times—which handled distribution of the print PI—is selling off about 3500 of the PI's big red distribution boxes at $40 a pop.

If you want a PI box, email Doug Musselman-Brown at dmbrown@seattletimes.com.

Slogtipper George has grand plans for his PI box: "I'll "be putting an LCD in the front window and displaying the home page of Seattle-PI.com. It’ll sit in the lobby of my condo as art. New media encapsulated in the shell of old media."