I have a couple of ?'s About This Page:

[dsnyscrapper]

First, is there a post office any where on property to mail a package back home? I was thinking of mailing some of my purchases back home to keep from having to make so much room in the suitcases.

Second, is it difficult to find Photopass photograhers to take your pictures around the parks?

[disneydani]

I don't know of any post office per se, but I have mailed packages home from the resort. The lobby concierge had fed ex forms and I just filled it out. It was pretty easy.

[poohbear.u.k.]

I'm pretty certain there isn't a post office on property, we go to one in Lake Buena Vista not far from DTD & there is another in Celebration.
There isn't usually any problem finding a Photopass photgraphers around the parks, they're in most "Key" areas of the parks & of course in the character meet & greets.

[carters_mom]

My first trip in '05 I had a lot of pictures taken with Photopass. This year I only came across two Photopass cast members. One took our picture as we were leaving Magic Kingdom and the other was doing Mickey at Epcot. I thought it was really strange the there weren't more. Maybe we were just at the wrong place at the wrong time?
There were a lot of people taking your picture at Blizzard Beach! They would give you a bracelet with your picture ID on it, so if you kept taking them you'd have several on your arms. My husband was a bit annoyed that they kept asking you to pose, but I didn't mind because I didn't want to bring my camera to the water park.

[Teresa]

As far as sending purchases home: If it's a lot of stuff, or a big perchase, I always have the shop I bought it at send it on to the house. It costs a bit extra, but well worth it to sneak that special gift or the purchase I don't want DH to have time to go look at how much it cost home.

Good luck.

[coasties]

I remember there being a blue mail box inside Port Royale at Carribean beach where you could mail things already stamped. We sent several postcards home to family from there in 2004. This August we came across several photopass photographers in every park. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img]

[AzureHaven]

My DS sent a large package of items he had purchased during the week to his girlfriend in England from a desk in the store at POP last year.

[Aminspired]

If it is soemthing I purchased on property, I usually have it sent directly home from the stored (if its big, bulky, fragile, etc). I have mailed out letters and the Front Desk always took care of that for me at the Poly. I never mailed a package home. Good luck in your search!

[boBmouse]

If you buy things at World of Disney you can have them mail them home for you You will pay for postage but no taxes. So it is a little better then paying both.

boB

[Joy J]

I know that you can mail things via the Art of Disney store at Downtown Disney and, when you do, they postmark it with Tinkerbelle (very cute). Leastwise they did this with my Christmas cards. I'm not sure about parcels though. As for Photopass photographers you can find them scattered throughout the parks. In general they're usually to be found: just inside the front gates at Epcot, at the character greeting areas at the back of the World Showcase pavilions, in front of Cinderella Castle along Main Street, at the Toontown character greeting areas, along the main boulevard at MGM leading up to the Sorcerer's Hat, in front of the Tree of Life and on the character trails at Camp Minnie Mickey in the Animal Kingdom.

Joy

[ripkensnana]

I just read somewhere that Disney has changed it's pricing for shipping your purchases to your home, based on price paid rather than on weight (or some such nonesense), and it's become extremely costly - at least according to what I read...sorry I can't tell you exactly where I read it - but it was either here on the PassPorter boards or on AllEarsNet....

[Babysimba13]

I frequently ship packages from the shops when I am there. If you find numerous things you want and they are items you can find in other stores then you can make a list and get them all at once that way you are only shipping a one or a few packages home and saving money on the shipping. The shipping can be a little costly but to cut out not having enough room to carry things on a plane it is a great idea. You can also buy from one store and when you get all the items you bought together the last store you buy at should ship all the items together for you. We did this a few times when we were there in earlier this month.

As for Photopass photographers, if you check out your park maps you can find out where they are supposed to be. You will always find them in the front of the park. The other spots can be spotty on catching a photographer there. I would be looking for them but didn't see them. I had more luck w/ that last year. Good luck!!