1. Santa Used To Send and not Receiving Letters
Santa's letters were actually delivered to kids as letters. They were used to help parents inspire good behavior. Fanny Longfellow, the wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Longfellow wrote letters to her kids every season, giving feedback on their previous behavior. When gifts became more important in Christmas, this changed and the letters turned into Christmas wish lists. Some parents still wrote letters to their children using Santa's voice. J.R.R. may be the most well-known of these. J.R.R. is the most remarkable. He gave his children illustrated reports on Father Christmas and his life at the North Pole for nearly 25 years. These included red gnomes, snow elves, as well as his most trusted assistant, North Polar bear. Check how to get a letter from santa in the mail for info.

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Children came up with a variety of imaginative ways to deliver Santa letters to the right places to be before the Post Office Department, as the USPS was known up until 1971. The children in the U.S. would take their Santa mails to Santa and drop them off at the fireplace. The process would be accelerated by the Scottish children if they climbed up the chimney and shouted out their Christmas wishes. Latin America was where children stuck their letters on balloons, and then watched the letters rise into the sky.

3. It Was Illegal To Answer These Questions.
Santa could not answer children's letters, which was another reason as to why they shouldn't send them through the mail. Santa's letters were delivered to the Dead Letter Office along with all other letters to undeliverable or untrue addresses. Even though Santa received many letters however, there was no legal method for them to respond. However, there were some postmasters who broke the rules. The situation changed in 1913 when the Postmaster General granted an exception to the rules which permitted organizations and individuals to answer Santa’s mail. The letters, still today are required to be addressed to Santa Claus in order to be answered by the post office. In order to ensure families with names like "Kringle", or "Nicholas", don't get their mail delivered to the wrong location,



4. A cartoon helped spread the popularity of writing to Santa.
If one work can be considered to have helped kickstart the tradition of writing letters to Santa Claus and his elves, it's Thomas Nast's illustration published in the December 1871 issue of Harper's Weekly. The illustration depicts Santa sitting at his computer sorting letters into stacks labelled "Letters for rude Children's Parents", "Letters for Good Children's Parents". Nast's illustrations were widely shared and seen by many and made them among the most popular magazines of the time. The magazine's cover featured Nast's Santa illustration in 1863. There were reports of Santa letters ending up at post offices in the area exploded the year after Nast's illustration appeared.

5. Newspapers were used to answer these questions.
Prior to the time that the Post Office Department allowed Santa letters to be released to the general public local newspapers urged children and their families to send them letters. In 1901, Monroe City Democrat of Monroe City, Missouri offered "two premiums” to the most outstanding letter. The Daily Ardmoreite, a newspaper that was based in Ardmore (Oklahoma) provided prizes to three of the top-performing letters written in 1922. The winners' missives were distributed with personal information and the address of the child. This practice changed when the Santa mail processing came controlled by the post office.



6. They were beaten by charity groups
Many charities complained that Santa's letter wasn't answered by the Post Office Department and that there was no method to confirm the children's needs. It was also an ineffective method to distribute funds to the needy. The Charity Organization Society made a usual complaint to the Postmaster General. Their representative wrote that "Santa Santa Claus letters" were getting unwholesome publicity in the city and elsewhere in the run-up to Christmas. The public lost interest in such appeals, since the PostmasterGeneral decided to answer the letters in order to "encourage children's belief in Santa Claus."

7. Children don't always address them To The North Pole.
Today, the majority of children who write Santa letters direct their attention towards the North Pole. But for the first couple of decades of Santa mail there were many other locations. St. Nick could also be operating from Iceland or Cloudville as the children thought. You can still find exceptions to this day. Most U.S. letters addressed "Santa Claus" will end up at the nearest post office. However, any letters sent to Anchorage (Alaska) or Santa Claus (Indiana) will be addressed to that city's post office. They will receive an extra response to local mail-answering efforts. Children in England can send messages to Santa's Grotto (XM4 5HQ) in Reinderland. Canadian kids can simply write North Pole and add the H0H0H0 stamp to ensure that the big man gets their letters.



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Many who received Santa letters were decent people. There are some sad tales about some of the most impressive efforts. Elizabeth Phillips was the "Miss Santa Claus" in Philadelphia in the early 1900s. She died shortly after being not allowed to respond to Santa's mail due to a change in the policy of the post office. In the following years, John Duval Gluck took over the task of answering New York City's Santa letters, under the organized efforts of the Santa Claus Association. Gluck was found guilty of using the Santa Claus Association to gain wealth for himself for over 15 years. In October, a New York City post worker admitted to stealing Santa Claus' gifts. He utilized Operation Santa Claus by the USPS to inspire generous New Yorkers.

9. The Post Office Tracks Them In A Database.
In 2006, the U.S. developed an official system to answer Santa letters. Postal Service established national policy guidelines for Operation Santa, run out of individual post offices throughout the nation. These rules required that anyone wanting to receive letters attend in person and present a photo ID. The USPS changed the rules to make sure that children's addresses were deleted from all letters prior to when they reach potential donors three years later. Instead of having a code the rules now require that all names of children are removed. All of it is stored in an Microsoft Access database that only the "elves" at the post office have access to.

10. Santa Has An Email Address.
Santa is always adapting to the changing times, and is now responding to emails. You can contact Santa via several ways, such as Letters to Santa and Email Santa.com. Macy's encourages kids to write to St. Nick as part of its annual "Believe" campaign (children can also go the old-fashioned route and drop a letter at the red mailbox at their local Macy's store) and the people who run The Elf on the Shelf empire provide their own relationship with St. Nick.

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