Post Office

Ellie pointing out some construction equipment.

Our "post office"

Subway Art.

In yesterday’s mail a package slip arrived.  We can finally find our post office.  For anything mail item that will not fit through the door slot, you receive a pick-up notice.  The postal system here is a bit different than the American system.  Instead of having buildings dedicated to the postal system, the government contracts with local businesses to handle packages and sell stamps.  This is usually a convenience store like a 7/11. Our local “post office” is a place called Handler’N and is only a 3 block walk from the apartment.  The lady behind the counter was super nice and talkative.  She gave me suggestions on all sorts of places that she thought Ellie would like to go.  I also bought my first Swedish stamps.  They have a version of the US forever stamp, which I bought not knowing how fast we would go through them.  It takes 6 Kr to mail things around Sweden (just under a dollar) and 12 Kr to mail overseas. 

Ellie wanted to ride the train so we rode up a few stops and got off to explore.  We found another chain of grocery stores we had not visited before.  This store seemed to me to be more like an Aldi.  It looks like you never know what you might find.  They even had the center isle of random toys, books and gloves etc.  It had good prices on what I bought but I could find everything I was looking for category wise.  Ellie’s favorite find was Halloween shaped chicken nuggets.