For the Kids Guide

Kids of all ages can find everything they ever wanted to know about mail in one place—Canada Post's Postal Planet website.

Discover the wonder of mail with Postal Planet

Postal Planet is an interactive learning site for kids, teens, parents and educators that features an assortment of games and activities all with a postal theme: crosswords, riddles, memory matches and even educational comic strips!

For teachers and parents, Postal Planet offers a range of interesting lesson guides to help elementary school-aged children learn things such as how the postal system works, the seven steps of mail delivery and how to start a stamp collecting club of their own.

Cool stuff you can find through Postal Planet

La Dictée P.G.L. (Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie)
Canada Post is proud to sponsor La Dictée P.G.L., a unique educational project of the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie open to all primary students from kindergarten to grade 8, in francophone classes or French immersion. The project has three main objectives: to upgrade students' written French skills; raise their awareness of the need to protect the environment; and open their minds to international realities.

Stamp Quest
Stamp Quest is a cool website that presents fun ways for kids to get involved in the world of stamp collecting. Kids can download wallpaper or icons for their computer desktops, join in the adventure with Perf and his friends in an online comic series and check out the newest stamps available for collecting through Canada Post.

Write to Read
Write to Read is a creative writing competition that's open to fourth and fifth grade students. This World Literacy of Canada project encourages students from across Canada to send in their family and community-themed short stories for a chance to have their story published in a student compilation. Visit the Write to Read website to learn more.

Young Poets
If you're a student who's constantly writing down snippets of poetry or song lyrics then you should get acquainted with a great online resource called Young Poets! You can submit your work to be published in reverse, an e-zine for young poets, or simply cruise around the Young Poets website and check out poetry-related activities and contests.

CanWest literacy programs
Take a look at CanWest's CanSpell National Spelling Bee and find out how you can register your school to participate. There's also the CanWest Raise a Reader Day program that has been raising awareness and money for literacy programs since 2002.

Write a letter with Princess Patty
Princess Patty loves to write letters and she can help you write one too. First choose a person to write to and then decide sentence by sentence the interesting things you'd like to say. Brought to you by the CBC, Princess Patty is ready to help you start writing letters today.