Many kids have written a Santa letter or two in the course of their lifetime – in fact, depending on when and where you grew up, you may have even written them in school. But when we grow up a bit and learn that Santa isn’t as real as we’d first believed, the question always pops up: where do all those letters to Santa go?
The answer isn’t so simple: there are several locations where a child’s letter can end up. Many U.S. letters travel to a small town in Indiana named Santa Claus. The town was named as such over 150 years ago and every Christmas, the town of just 2,000 receives thousands and thousands of Dear Santa Claus letters. Still more letters head to a special mailbox in Nuuk, Greenland, which is designated only for Santa letters. In England and France, each one gets opened and a reply is sent, usually postmarked from the North Pole.
Of course, as the Internet makes our big world seem smaller, there are plenty of ways to help a child contact Santa. Email Santa lets children email Santa, even on Christmas Eve, and receive a prompt reply.
For slightly more ambitious parents, several pay sites exist where you can customize your letter – fonts, names, stationary, and even the possibility of a letter from Rudolph. If this is what you’re looking for, try
- Mydnyte.com. starting at $4.95.
- Letters from Santa Claus, Indiana for $12.99.
- Greetings from Santa
- Santa Letter for Kids, starting at $10.50.
