Le Hameau du Père Noël (le Bureau de Poste)

As promised, here are some photos of the wee postal outlet at the Hameau du Père Noël.

Those of you who know me well will not be surprised to hear

that this was my favourite part of our visit to Santa's village.  

I adore post offices, postal museums, postmarks, stamps, letters...  

pretty much anything to do with the postal system.

So it goes without saying that I was in postal heaven.  

mailboxes are very yellow in France

inside the lovely little P.O.

there were mail slots for a bunch of different countries

see?

& slots for all the towns & villages in this region of France

FQ helped Jimi take a closer look at the outgoing mail

packages galore (one is for Alice Cooper in NY!!)

here's where letters to Santa get sorted according to adults/children & their varying degrees of naughtiness or niceness

Aline couldn't decide whether to file Jimi under "good children" or "fairly good children".  She'll get back to us.

Now if that doesn't inspire me to finally attack my stack of holiday cards that need to be sent out, 

I don't know what will!