Waiting to be served

The elephant at the post office in Købmagergade seems to be waiting patiently to be served, as one should when needing help to send a package.

Missing the Christmas mail?

This might be the reason for any missing Christmas mail in Copenhagen; the postal workers are out to play music on the streets instead of doing their job. No, seriously, they were doing this to raise money for good causes. And not doing a bad job, by the way:-)

And a merry Christmas for those of you that are celebrating today. I'm trying to get over the overfeeding of yesterday, so the couch is a good place to find me today:-)

Mailbox

In Denmark mailboxes are not exactly hidden. They are very red and placed in prominent places, so it's easy finding one. The symbol on top of it is a signal horn used by the old coaches to tell the way stations to ready the new horses, so the tired ones could be changed. The crown of course tells that this was a Royal service going back to King Christian IV, who founded it in 1624. The colours, red and yellow, are the colours of the House of Oldenburg, the family from which the Danish kings since Christian I (1448) have come from. Today the postal service is a semi-private company, partly owned by the state. From next year it'll merge with the Swedish postal service under the name Posten Norden. I wonder if they'll change colours and symbols then?