“Unveiling the Secret: The Surprising Destination of Santa’s Letters Revealed!”
Despite such controversies, the USPS program, now called Operation Santa, has endured with great success at what it is actually intended to do- helping Santa make Christmas morning a little nicer for impoverished kids. Fast-forward to the 1960s and Johnny Carson helped further popularize the whole thing via reading off such letters on the Tonight Show and encouraging people to get involved in the program.
We’ll get into the modern and exceptionally cool version of Operation Santa shortly, but it’s also noteworthy that there exists another program of simply having Santa answer letters that exists as a part of most nations of the world’s postal systems. For example, across the pond in the UK, the Royal Mail will make sure letters sent to Santa / Father Christmas, Santa’s Grotto, Reindeerland, XM4 5HQ will receive a response from Santa within about 10 days starting at the end of November. In Canada, their postal system has the same service, but with perhaps the best address for Santa thanks to its post code- specifically, to receive a reply from Santa in Canada, you write to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0. And, again, it seems that most countries have a similar program to make sure kids’ letters get answered so long as letters to Santa are received in time, with most postal systems requiring such letters be mailed somewhere in the ballpark of by December 10th, give or take a few days.
Going back to the United States’ Operation Santa, this has evolved over more modern decades and in the last couple years has gone digital, with it being exceptionally easy for anyone to sign up and become one of Santa’s helpers in adopting one or more letters to fulfill.
