Yes of course when it’s things you don’t see every day such as the French counterpart of Target, chocolate-scented postage stamps and mail being delivered on stilts! As usual I’m posting pictures of things I’m pretty sure you’re not going see to anywhere else, with one or two exceptions.
I know, the Postal Museum sounds less interesting than watching paint dry –
but trust me it’s riveting and absolutely worth a visit.
They used to deliver mail by dog cart…
and on stilts in marshy areas…
and by pigeons carrying microfilm during the siege of Paris in 1870-1871 during the Franco-Prussian war (one of the actual pigeons and yes actual microfilm like in 1960s spy movies)
Projection of mail from microfilm, 1870-71
…and by ski
Chocolate-scented stamps celebrating 400 Years of Chocolate (2009). Sorry for the glare. They really need to get anti-refliective glass!
This is a 20-foot long map from 1265 of routes from Bordeaux to India or rather a reprint of it from 1887