Magazines. Packed.Top to bottom. Shelves stuffed…read more Titles from around the globe. Things seen and unseen. Titles feeding intellectual buzz. Thoughts to flow. Thumb a little. Find a lot. Bending towards current events, and design. With a peppering of zines. Your feasting eyes will convince your mind to shell out a few euros to feather your mental nest.

I am a big fan of this store. I usually go to pick up a package, mail a package or go to the ATM…read more But they have books, magazines, cards, office supplies and games. It's a larger post office-type store (compared to others I have been to), it's bright with move to walk around. There are multiple registers and sometimes people form one line and sometime two...just depends on the day. The staff has always been friendly and now that I have encountered the same woman a few times, she recognizes me. She's happy to speak English to me, or Dutch if I prefer. Yes, some things are pricey, but it's not a discount store. It's just one of those neighborhood stores where people know people and they know how to be helpful. My advice for here is to always bring an ID (Dutch ID or a Passport) to pick up packages.

They don't have your favorite magazine at the moment? Ask for it and they will manage to have it…read morewithin 2 days!

What's not to like? It's a store you go into for greeting cards, magazines, stationary, and for…read morethings to do with mailing things. It's a nice store, well-marked and a nice space. You can easily look around without feeling like you are in everyone's way. They have a great magazine selection (if you read Dutch), but I love the variety of greeting cards. You'll find some English ones too. And I bought stamps. Very friendly staff. If you are in Alkmaar and need some cards and stamps, it's a good spot.

The people that run this newsagents are the most unhelpful, pedantic, jobs worth people I have met…read more Unfortunately, this is a drop-off point for TNT packages (if your not at home, then you can have them delivered here). Make sure that you take you passport, residence permit, birth certificate, inside leg measurement, all the documentation that you have ever been sent by TNT, printed on velum and then, maybe, just maybe you might get your package, but only after they have made you feel like your being give some big big favor rather than providing a service. If I could give this shop a lower rating - I would.

Many years ago when I was little, Paul Mans's store was a small, dimly lit cigar shop infused with…read morethe rich, sweet scent of dried tobacco. You entered through a small door on the left, which looked like the entryway to a regular house but as soon as it opened that smell of tobacco would waft out into the open air. I've never smoked a day in my life, never had the urge to do so, but I love that intoxicating, fruity smell that reminds me of my early teens when I would sit on the ground in front of the magazine rack at Mans browsing through the teenybopper mags in the hope that one of them would feature an article about my favorite boybands. I would save up all my pocket money to get the magazines imported from England and Germany, before I even knew much German. And if there was any money left over I'd grab a Twix (or were they called Raiders?) from the front counter. Nowadays the store looks very different. Bright and modern with a door opening the width of the entire shop. The magazines, candy, and even the tobacco are still there, though you can no longer buy cigarettes from a machine on the outside wall (I guess they started enforcing age limits). Paul Mans and his wife still run the same shop, and to me they look the same as they always have, only with a little more gray hair. You can still smell the tobacco, but it no longer fills the room, which is reminiscent of a train station newsagent. Oh well. The store looks more inviting now and I'm sure they do better business, but in my mind Paul Mans's store will always be that dark, fragrant store where I spent many happy hours browsing through magazines.

There's a decent variety of products, but the staff is unbelievably rude. It completely puts you…read moreoff. Honestly, not even worth a single star.

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