December 5, 2020 – The US Postal Service is looking for special elves to adopt letters as part of its Operation Santa Program.
For 108 years, the program has been helping Santa respond to letters from children in need and helped their holiday wishes come true.
Adopting a Letter
Potential adopters can visit USPSOperationSanta.com, read through the letters, pick one or more wishes that they’d like to fulfill, and follow the directions on how to grant that special wish for a child.
For security reasons, potential adopters must be vetted by going through a short registration and ID verification process before they are allowed to adopt any letter.
To participate in USPS Operation Santa as a possible recipient of holiday gifts, all you have to do is write a letter, put it in a stamped envelope with a return address, and send it to Santa’s official workshop address:
Santa Claus
123 Elf Road,
North Pole, 88888
The program began accepting letters Nov. 16. Letters will continue to be uploaded to the website through Dec. 15. So, if you haven’t written your letter yet, you still have some time.
When someone writes a letter, it is opened by Santa’s Elves, and for safety reasons, all personally identifiable information of the letter writer is removed (i.e. last names, addresses, ZIP Codes) and uploaded to USPSOperationSanta.com for adoption.
While the Postal Service began receiving letters to Santa more than 108 years ago, it wasn’t until 1912 that Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local Postmasters to allow postal employees and citizens to respond to them. This became known as Operation Santa.
