LEGO Icons 10339 Santa's Post Office review

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Review of the Lego Winter Village 2024 set

For this new review on Temple of Bricks, we are taking a look at set 10339 Santa’s Post Office, from the Winter Village collection released in late 2024. As every year, Lego expands the “Winter Village Collection” with a new set. After the Elf Club House in 2020, the Main Street in 2021, Santa’s Visit in 2022 and the Alpine Lodge in 2023, the 2024 edition revisits a Christmas legend: the famous letters to Santa that children write to receive gifts. The designer therefore chose to tackle the subject in the form of a post office with its sorting center and delivery hot air balloon.

In 2022, I bought set 10275 Elf Club House, which I reviewed for you, but I did not buy the following ones because I did not find in them the Christmas magic specific to the Club House: the main street, Santa’s visit and the lodge are just simple town buildings with snow and a few decorations that could just as well have been part of the City range. Fortunately, the 2024 edition reconnects with the magical spirit of the Club House. I therefore decided to buy it and, as usual, I’m taking the opportunity to offer you a full review to see whether you should fall for this set. Is set 10339 Santa’s Post Office a success? That is what we are going to find out in this review…

Data for set 10339 Santa’s Post Office

As usual, let’s go over the set’s figures before moving on to the review. Set 10339 Santa’s Post Office is sold for €99.99 by Lego with 1,440 pieces including five minifigures, which gives it an excellent ratio of €0.069 per piece, which is almost as good as the 2023 Alpine Lodge (€0.066), and even better than the 2020 Elf Club House (€0.075). You have to go down to a tenth of a cent to see the difference. So we can thank Lego for not giving in to the siren call of inflation on the Winter Village range by keeping the price below the symbolic €100 mark without reducing the content of the set. On paper, set 10339 Santa’s Post Office therefore offers excellent value for money.

Building the set: simple and enjoyable

Review of set 10339 Santa’s Post Office

Exterior scenery

As always with Winter Village sets, the main build is accompanied by small separate scenery elements intended to enrich the content of the set and provide pieces that Christmas diorama fans can place as needed.

The set contains three of them. The first is a simple chunk of ice floe with a hole in the ice for fishing. The whole thing is simply represented by a quarter-circle plate on which there is a white seal, a fish and the suggestion of a fishing rod, although a letter is attached to the end of it. While this small bit of scenery is nothing extraordinary, its presence reminds us that we are indeed holding a North Pole Winter Village set where Santa lives, and not just a simple snow-covered town building. It therefore contributes a little to the Christmas magic I expect from the set.

The second scenery element is another quarter circle, this time with a simple mailbox and a signpost holding three signs. While the one at the top gives the name of the set’s location with the words “Post, North Pole,” the other two point toward the “Club House” and the “Workshop,” references to older Winter Village sets based on the North Pole: sets 10275 Elf Club House and 10245 Santa’s Workshop from 2014.

Finally, the last scenery element is of course a Christmas tree, mandatory in a Winter Village set. This one uses a different building technique, much more basic than previous versions, with rounded slope bricks used as branches. I am not a big fan of this choice; the result looks very much like a failed child’s drawing compared to the tree from the Elf Club House. At the foot of the tree are a few gift packages, and it is accompanied by a small sled.

While these elements are built during the first instruction booklet, this is also the case for three parts of the mail-sorting system assembled in advance of the post office, but we will come back to that later.

The post office: an aesthetic and technical success

Now we come to the main build of the set: Santa’s post office. It is a fairly simple building with more classic architecture than the Elf Club House, made up of three parts: the entrance on the left, the façade in the center, and a lower section with a chimney on the right. While the overall design of the building is less unusual than that of the Club House, its atmosphere and details give it the magical quality I look for in this type of set.

First of all, the snow is very well done, especially on the roof, which makes extensive use of rounded bricks along the edges. This gives thickness and credibility to the layer of snow on the roofs, with a natural and abundant look. In this respect, the set is much more successful than previous ones, which generally made do with simple white plates. The windowsills are also covered with mounds of snow, as is the bottom of the walls, for carefully crafted visual consistency. The scenery is completed by small conical plants with white tops, and a snowman made of two snowballs is present on the side.

The façade of the post office uses soft colors, medium nougat and light royal blue, with touches of earth blue, in the same spirit as the Elf Club House. The colors are arranged in a way that evokes a half-timbered house, which reinforces the traditional feel of the place. A few pieces are placed in SNOT on the façade to add architectural details, and Christmas decorations are clearly present: a mistletoe garland decorates the top of the ground-floor windows, two candy-cane lanterns frame the porch, and a golden post horn sits at the top of the façade. It seems to be the post office logo, as it also appears on the elves’ outfits. Its construction is simple and effective, cleverly using a life preserver and gold sausage pieces.

The right-hand side of the post office features a double-sided chimney that opens both into the room and onto the façade. On its exterior side, it is decorated with a few logs placed at its base and a table with a lantern and a sprig of mistletoe.

Finally, a snowy platform is located on the roof of the building on the left-hand side. It is intended to accommodate the hot air balloon, which we will discuss again.

The inside of the post office is made up of four different spaces. The first, located under the lower roof, is a library, into which the through chimney opens. This room benefits from a good level of detail, with a rug on the floor, a bookcase whose construction recalls those of certain Harry Potter sets, a chair, a table with a candlestick and a table with a globe. As in all the other rooms, letters are scattered across the floor and table. I really like this room, whose atmosphere is very successful despite the limited space: you can easily imagine Santa reading letters by the fire in his library.

On the opposite side, we find the entrance to the post office. The door is functional and the room is simply decorated with a stack of crates, letters and a table with a coffee machine.

Finally, the central room is the two-story mail sorting area. On the ground floor, there are mail slots for storing letters on one side and a lectern with an account book on the other, to keep track of accepted and rejected letters. The book uses two of the set’s stickers. An area is marked out on the floor to attach the mail sorter built at the start of the set. It is a sort of box whose bottom tilts when the lever is activated to direct the mail arriving through the opening at the top toward one of the two carts placed on either side. The sorter attaches to the floor of the post office so it can receive mail coming from the green ramp fixed to the ceiling, itself connected to the hot air balloon and the upstairs room, which contains a desk with a candlestick and a wax seal. The roof of this room is simply placed on the structure, like that of the library, so it can be removed for easier access inside, but be careful not to pick up the set by it.

The mechanism is simple and effective. The hot air balloon is equipped with a tilting mail bin. You place it on the platform and activate the bin to dump the mail onto the first ramp. It then slides down until it falls onto the second ramp and then into the sorter. Depending on the position of the lever, the mail then falls into one bin or the other. It is also possible to send mail from the upstairs room using the second ramp.

It works well, and it is rare for a letter to get lost along the way. This feature fits perfectly with the theme and brings a little extra life to the set. It should also be noted that the set contains four printed 2x2 tiles used as letters (loose, in addition to all those fixed in the set as decoration, two of which bear the words “junk mail” and are therefore intended for the red bin). The letter rack also contains two letters and a package made from a tile attached to a plate, and they are also perfectly usable with the sorter despite their double thickness.

The hot air balloon: the final magical touch of the set

We end the review by taking a closer look at the last element to build: the hot air balloon. I mentioned at the start that what I liked about the 2020 Elf Club House, and what I did not find in the sets of the following years, was the feeling of Christmas magic. In set 10339 Santa’s Post Office, while the building itself is ultimately fairly understated, the presence of the hot air balloon changes everything by bringing a significant magical touch. In terms of colors, with a red basket and a green and gold balloon, it displays the festive Christmas colors that stand out against the white snow and the light tones of the post office, but above all in terms of concept.

Lego could have settled for a simple delivery truck (it was in fact released separately as set 40746), but the designer had the good idea to offer something out of the ordinary with this hot air balloon. It benefits from a very good level of detail, with mail in the basket, decorations on the edges of the balloon and the support rods, and it is the one that houses the traditional light brick of Winter Village sets: by pressing the rod sticking out at the top of the balloon, the burner lights up.

Minifigures in set 10339: Winter Village classics

The four Christmas Elves (hol363, hol364, hol365 and hol366)

Just like the Elf Club House, set 10339 Santa’s Post Office contains four elves, all exclusive to this set. Like those from the Club House, the four elves are identical in terms of body, with their short fixed legs and green torso, but this one benefits from an aesthetic update with a new collar and the post horn logo also present on the building’s façade. Only the heads differ between the minifigures, except for two elves that use the same piece, so you will have to use the alternate expressions on that head to get four different faces. The only other difference concerns the accessories: one of the elves (the hot air balloon pilot) wears an aviator helmet with goggles instead of the traditional green pointed-ear hat piece, and another has a red scarf and two light batons to guide the pilot.

There is not much more to say about these minifigures; they fulfill their role perfectly, and we can thank Lego for including four of them.

Santa Claus (hol362)

Unlike the Elf Club House, which contained only four elves, Santa’s Post Office includes a fifth one: Santa Claus. While this version is exclusive to this set, that is not the case for the parts that make it up, all of which have already appeared elsewhere. Only the face, barely visible under the beard, distinguishes the minifigure from the previous version. As with the elves, the presence of this minifigure is coherent and welcome in the set, and credit should be given for the effort made with the red and black dual-molded legs.

My opinion on Lego Icons set 10339 Santa’s Post Office

I am very pleased with this set, which offers everything I expect from it: a beautiful display model with a warm, festive and magical atmosphere. After three years in a less original style, the Winter Village Collection reconnects with the magic of Christmas. This post office lives up to the excellent Elf Club House. So I recommend buying it without hesitation if you have not already done so. Feel free to check its page on the Temple of Bricks comparison tool to find it at the best price.

Evaluation of set 10339 Santa’s Post Office

The evaluation of set Lego Icons 10339 Santa’s Post Office by Temple of Bricks:

Criteria	Set rating	Pros and cons
Value for money		✅ Excellent value for money
Collection value		✅ A Winter Village Collection set
Display value		✅ Nice appearance and good size
Play value		✅ Sorting feature ✅ Minifigures and accessories
Minifigure selection		✅ Santa Claus in addition to the elves
Build experience		✅ Enjoyable
Inventory richness		✅ Lots of useful pieces

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