{"id":32689,"date":"2022-09-16T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=32689"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:59:15","slug":"letters-for-usps-operation-santa-now-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2022\/09\/16\/letters-for-usps-operation-santa-now-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters for USPS Operation Santa Now Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NORTH POLE \u2014 9\/15\/22 – At an event here to celebrate the new Holiday Elves stamps, with Santa, Mrs. Claus, reindeer and the Santa Claus House (on St. Nicholas Drive!) as the backdrop, the Postal Service announced that letters for the 110-year-old USPS Operation Santa program can be sent beginning today \u2014 six weeks earlier than previous years. The holiday season is here!<\/p>\n

\u201cUSPS Operation Santa allows generous customers to grant the holiday wishes of children and families in need. The program is now accepting wish lists for this year\u2019s program,\u201d said Michael Elston, the Secretary of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, who served as the dedicating official for the stamp event. \u201cWe know this is earlier than usual, but we\u2019re pretty excited to get the season started and we know kids around the country are eager to write to Santa, using these stamps on the envelopes.\u201d<\/p>\n

USPS Operation Santa provides an online channel where people can safely and securely help children and families have a magical holiday when they otherwise might not\u2014 one letter to Santa at a time. It allows individuals to adopt letters written to Santa and send thoughtful, heartfelt gifts anonymously. USPS Operation Santa is not a guaranteed gift-giving program. It relies solely on the generosity of strangers.<\/p>\n

Last year, letters could be sent beginning Nov. 1, 2021. While thousands of letters had been received by the time the\u00a0USPSOperationSanta.com<\/em>\u00a0website opened for letter adoption on Nov. 29, 2021, only 2,500 letters contained the information necessary to be posted. The 2,500 letters were all adopted within ten minutes of the site opening. The Postal Service is hoping more time to send letters equates to many more letters available to adopt on opening day, Nov. 28.<\/p>\n

Letters need to include the letter writer\u2019s first and last name and a complete return address. A complete return address includes street address, apartment number, if applicable, city, state and ZIP Code. The envelope must have a postage stamp on it to travel through the Postal Service processing systems. The envelope needs to be addressed to:\u00a0SANTA CLAUS, 123 ELF ROAD, NORTH POLE 88888.<\/p>\n

These letters travel to the Santa\u2019s US satellite workshop where they are opened and reviewed, personal information is redacted and they are uploaded onto the website, anxiously awaiting adoption by generous people across the country.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0USPSOperationSanta.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0usps.com\/holidaynews<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n

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NORTH POLE \u2014 9\/15\/22 – At an event here to celebrate the new Holiday Elves stamps, with Santa, Mrs. Claus, reindeer and the Santa Claus House (on St. Nicholas Drive!) as the backdrop, the Postal Service announced that letters for the 110-year-old USPS Operation Santa program can be sent beginning today \u2014 six weeks earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689","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=32689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32691,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions\/32691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}