News, Grinch! North Pole Irked at End to Santa Replies. (program, children)

[JD59]

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.

Grinch! North Pole Irked at End to Santa Replies - ABC News

[Fred314X]

ABC News reported that? Then maybe it ain't so. The letters to children postmarked "North Pole" go out of the post office at North Pole, NY (a branch of the Lake Placid station). I don't mean to take jobs away from postal workers in Alaska, but ABC News was a few thousand miles off the mark!

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

ABC News reported that? Then maybe it ain't so. The letters to children postmarked "North Pole" go out of the post office at North Pole, NY (a branch of the Lake Placid station). I don't mean to take jobs away from postal workers in Alaska, but ABC News was a few thousand miles off the mark!

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