Post & Parcel: Post Office

The van's outside and the queue's forming. Best get stamping. Post & Parcel puts you behind the counter of a village post office. Villagers arrive with parcels and letters, each one needing a job or three: a stamp, a turn on the scales, a bit of brown paper. Tap a station to do the job, tap the customer to hand it back, and send them off happy before their patience runs out. SEVEN JOBS TO LEARN Start with the stamp pad and the scales. The wrapping desk arrives on day two, then the airmail rack, the label printer, the customs desk and, at last, the wax seal station. Every one has its own rhythm, and the counter gets busier as you learn them. A STAMP ALBUM TO FILL Every service earns a stamp. Special parcels — a cake, this way up; a parcel of bees; grandma's jam; a letter to Santa; a very late birthday card — earn rarer ones, and once in a very long while a first-day cover turns up. Twenty-four stamps in all, three of them only in season. DAYS WITH A TWIST Every third day has something going on: Christmas Rush, Parcel Day, Postcard Season, or a slow Sunday Service. Real seasons change the counter too: letters to Santa in December, cards in the run-up to Valentine's, postcards all summer. MOVE UP THE SERVICE Reach day 30 and choose a bigger sorting office: postal orders on market day in Market Town, ship's mail and cheeky gulls on the coast, express bags and courier rushes in the City, the collection hatch at Central, passports under inspection at Head Office. Each move is a fresh start with a permanent bonus and a little more bustle, and your album, records, rank and decor come with you. MAKE IT YOURS Sixty pieces of decor: wallpaper, floors, counters, a view of the lane, a radio, a notice board, and an office cat or dog with a bed of its own. Every parcel you send counts towards your rank, from Counter Clerk to Legend of the Post, and each rank brings a piece of decor. A LITTLE CHALLENGE EVERY DAY One small goal a day for coins and a stamp; fill a card of seven for a bonus. Miss a day? No matter. UPGRADE THE COUNTER Coins buy a Quick Stamp, Steady Scales, a Fast Wrap, a Bigger Trolley, a Comfy Bench for the queue, a Tip Tin, and finally a Twin Counter that does two jobs at once. Five of them go all the way to level 5. MADE FOR THE SOFA Every shift is a minute or so. One thumb, no swiping, no timers to babysit, no Wi-Fi needed. Records, streaks and personal bests keep score, and an optional daily reminder tells you when tomorrow's post is ready. Signed in to iCloud, your post office follows you to a new phone or iPad. Free to play with ads. A single £2.99 purchase removes them forever.