The Postal Service has decided to resume the Santa Claus letter program after Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Democratic Sen. Mark Begich and Republican Rep. Don Young sent letters to Postmaster General John Potter expressing concerns.
The letters will now be answered by the North Pole elves under tightened privacy rules implemented nationwide by the Postal Service in response to security concerns that arose in a similar program in Maryland last year.Merry Christmas to all!
The group also has been assigned a specific address that will allow its volunteers to run their own alternative program, bypassing the stringent new rules and perhaps lessening the Santa letter load for the Postal Service. The restrictions don't affect privately run letter efforts. Children can write to Santa through that program at: 1 Santa Claus Lane, North Pole, AK 99705.
(Hat tip: ron)
Government Cancels Santa Claus
[Previous 11/21/09 post]
Children writing letters to Santa Claus in the Alaska town of North Pole will no longer be receiving responses. The U.S. Postal Service will be rerouting the children's letters for shredding.
Postal officials say the change is being made to protect children from sex offenders.
I'd disagree. I think the government is solving a problem that so far doesn't exist. It's typical bureaucratic activism.
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