GENEVA — Santa Claus’ elves are dealing with so much mail they hardly have time to make the toys.
The bearded gentleman will receive more than 6 million letters in the mail this year, the U.N. agency that connects national post offices said Tuesday. And that’s not counting the U.S. Postal Service, which handles a million letters yearly to Santa.
In at least 20 countries, postal workers collect and respond to letters addressed to “North Pole,” which otherwise would be stamped “undeliverable” or “address unknown.” Finland, whose northern Lapland frontier claims to be the home of the real Santa, receives the most mail from abroad and responds to children in 150 countries.
Canada’s postal service replies in 26 languages and even gave Santa his own postal code — H0H 0H0.
The Associated Press
