USPS Operation Santa

A dear friend alerted me to Operation Santa a few days ago. The USPS receives thousands of letters to Santa every year, and now there is a team of people scanning and uploading them to their site. Anyone who wants can "adopt" a letter, respond to it and buy the gifts the child has requested. An example of a letter posted today (dec 21) is posted below.

The organization has requested that gifts be shipped by the 19th, so it's a bit late in the game to be adopting a letter. However USPS continues to upload them, so check back daily if you want to participate.

While researching this project, I came across a documentary that came out this month all about how USPS handles the many letters sent to the North Pole. Looking forward to watching DEAR SANTA soon (on youtube, amazon, or a variety of other places).

I definitely DID NOT* cry while watching the trailer. NOPE. Not at all.

*I definitely cried