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Austin Daugherty (center) and Julia Ho explore the many uses of miniature baseball bats during a visit to the Main Post Office in Downtown Albuquerque.. A bat plus a baseball, coloring book, candy cane and stamp were included in goodies bags given to the Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary School second-grade students on their tour Thursday.

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Think Santa's busy this time of year? The man in the red suit has nothing on Albuquerque postal workers - something second-graders at Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary School learned firsthand.

Teachers Shelly Montoya and Mon‚e Korbas had their classes write holiday letters to postal workers. The postal workers have promised to write back and describe the holiday season at their houses.

The students dropped off the letters at the Main Post Office, 1135 Broadway Blvd. N.E., on Thursday. They also got a tour from plant district manager Garry Gilmore. They were the first nonemployees allowed in the plant since Sept. 11, 2001.

The children probably didn't grasp that they were part of something mildly historic. They were, after all, not quite toddlers when the terrorist attacks happened.

Instead, the day was about holiday cheer, goodies bags and a time to reflect on family traditions.

Seven-year-old Ross Montoya said he was most impressed at how busy the postal workers are every day.

"The Main Post Office delivers mail to the whole wide world," he said. "They do 30,000 or 40,000 mails an hour."

And they do it without reindeer.