Signed, Sealed, Delivered the TV series ended after only 10 episodes, but thankfully Hallmark continued this fine series as TV movies. Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas is the first of the seven movies thus far. The rest of the seven movies are: From Paris with Love, Truth be Told, The Impossible Dream, From the Heart, One in a Million, and Lost Without You. Hopefully the movies will continue in 2017 and beyond. Or who knows, maybe Hallmark will agree to recommission it as a TV series.

SSD for Christmas starts two days before Christmas, and Jordan a postal troubleshooter bigwig (played by Rob "Silk Stalkings" Estes) meets the Postables, and charms Shane on the dance floor at the postal ball. Oliver is a bit jealous and cuts in to get a piece of the dance action with Shane.

Jordan (Rob "Melrose Place" Estes) passes on a "Letter to God" to the Postables - it's quite touching and was posted from Wyoming (the home state of former Vice-President Dick Cheney),and Shane is a bit hard-edged and cynical about trying to fulfill a child's wish to God. This leads to Oliver and Shane having a serious and thoughtful discussion about the role of God in such a situation. Later in this movie we learn that Shane's father left her family the Sunday before Christmas. We also learn that Jordan isn't really from the post office. He is someone sent from above. This relates to another "Letter to God", and it was written by Shane soon after her father left.

Anyway Jordan (Rob "90210" Estes) has a deep conversation with Oliver about his estranged wife who's in Paris. I assume that the next movie Signed, Sealed, Delivered from Paris with Love resolves this sad thread.

Shane encourages Rita to pursue her feelings with Norman, but Rita's a bit reluctant.

Marion "Happy Days" Ross makes a special appearance as Oliver's former Sunday School teacher.

Rita and Norman come very close to kissing after accidentally bumping heads after getting excited seeing an owl. So close.

The ending was incredibly moving and I loved the jazz version of It came upon a Midnight clear that played over the end credits. I wish I knew who played the song.

This is a nice Christmas story with a bit of heartache but with a lot more heart. There is a little girl who writes to God to help her mother who is in the hospital. The team members of the Lost Letters comprised of team leader Oliver (Eric Mabius),Shane (Kristin Booth),Rita (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe),and Norman (Geoff Gustafson) take the weathered and worn letter addressed to God and so they start their magic and commence finding this little girl who wrote this mystery letter asking for God's intervention.

While in the process of finding who the little girl is and more importantly where this little girl is, the team is feeling in the Christmas spirit except for Shane. All four members have some personal feelings around Christmas that they eventually share with each other, and they are touching and heartfelt stories, especially Oliver's childhood Christmas story.

If you believe in the magic of Christmas, and the spirit of (any) religion, than you will most likely enjoy this feature film in the Signed, Sealed and Delivery series. I give it a 7 out of 10 IMDB rating.

Ever since I watched "The Crow - Salvation" I've been a fan of Eric Mabius' acting as his portrayal of a "Crow" was one of my favourite, second to Brandon Lee.

I've not seen him in anything for quite a while, then I saw he was in this movie called Lost Letter Mysteries for Xmas (English Title). And what a joy it was.

In his role as Oliver O'Toole, he plays a stoic, straight-laced, upright, and honourable postal worker, who thinks nothing of going the extra mile to do the job right.

I loved the idea of a team of postal workers sorting through undelivered or undeliverable letters with the purpose of giving help. Even though, I now know, this is part of a series this Christmas episode works well by itself. It's well written and the direction is carried out well and progresses the story and cast at a steady pace.

After seeing this I will be looking at getting the series on DVD.