Santa Will Reply to Letters from Children in Cobb
Thanks to a very special U.S. Postal Service program, "Santa" will reply to children who mail him their Christmas wish lists this holiday season.
Every year, millions of children sit down to make a wish list for Santa, hoping he will make all of their Christmas dreams come true.
But what if Santa actually wrote back? The United States Postal Service is now accepting "Letters From Santa," a program that allows any person to play Santa by sending a letter signed by Saint Nick to any child.
According to a postal service news release, "The 'Letters From Santa' program helps parents fulfill the dreams of their own children."
Instructions to send a letter from Santa:
- Write a letter to your child from Santa Claus and sign it "From Santa." Put the letter in an envelope addressed to your child with the return address SANTA, NORTH POLE.
- Ensure a First-Class Mail stamp is affixed to the envelope.
- Place the envelope into a larger envelope, with appropriate postage, and address the larger envelope to:
NORTH POLE POSTMARK
POSTMASTER
4141 POSTMARK DR
ANCHORAGE AK 99530-9998 - Your letter “from Santa” will be mailed back to your child, postmarked from the North Pole.
- “Letters From Santa” must be mailed to the Anchorage, AK postmaster by no later than Dec. 10. Santa’s helpers in Anchorage will take care of the rest.
Letters to Santa can be dropped off at any post office as well as the Santa mailboxes.
TELL US: Do your children or children in your family plan on writing a letter to Santa this year?
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Leah Thomas
9:59 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
It confuses me that the article states that any person can write a Santa letter to any child. Are these letters going to be reviewed before a child reads them? If parents are writing these letters to their own children, that's one thing, but not everyone should be allowed to write to some child because there is no telling what a person might write.
Tiffany Jarrett
7:58 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012
To write to your child, the envelope has to be addressed to them.