{"id":27647,"date":"2019-11-17T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27647"},"modified":"2019-11-17T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T15:23:21","slug":"usps-kicks-off-annual-santa-claus-letter-campaign-operation-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/17\/usps-kicks-off-annual-santa-claus-letter-campaign-operation-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS kicks off annual Santa Claus letter campaign &#8216;Operation Santa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=5702853\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; The United States Post Office&#8217;s annual Santa letter program Operation Santa kicks off Monday, November 18.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the campaign is to give kids who may not be able to otherwise, the happy holiday they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Started in 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local Postmasters to allow postal employees and citizens to respond to the letters &#8211; a program that eventually became known as Operation Santa. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/community-events\/usps-kicks-off-annual-santa-claus-letter-campaign\/5702851\/\">ABC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit USPS Operation Santa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoperationsanta.com\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoperationsanta.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27648\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Operation-Santa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Operation-Santa.jpg 450w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Operation-Santa-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Operation-Santa-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; The United States Post Office&#8217;s annual Santa letter program Operation Santa kicks off Monday, November 18. The goal of the campaign is to give kids who may not be able to otherwise, the happy holiday they deserve. Started in 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local Postmasters to allow postal employees and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27650,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions\/27650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}