26 Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 27, 1991

Canada Post readies .

North Pole express

by Stephanie Wiebe

While Canada Post prepares for the annual onslaught of holiday letters and packages, a troop of Canada Post elves is gearing up to process some particular correspon- dence: letters to Santa Claus.

_ Last year, approximately 300 letters from Terrace area children were delivered to Santa, according to Dale Walker, Terrace’s Superin- tendent of Collection and Delivery.

Walker says that Santa’s mail flow

in this region is handled by two

volunteers from Canada Post’s

"Heritage Club", a group of retired

postal employees. ,

The special handling of letters to ‘Santa has been a popular program

since it began in Montreal in 1973.

Because the North Pole is geo-

graphically located within Cana-

dian jurisdiction, Canada Post

Corporation handles letters to

Santa from around the world,

written in a variety of languages.

In 1990, more than 8,500 of Santa’s Canadian postal elves processed a total of nearly 800,000 letters.

Walker explains that Santa’s mail travels the regular route to his north pole address, explaining, "We don’t have the luxury of reindeers." As long as letters to Santa include a return address, the post office will see that Santa receives his mail and is able to deliver his replies promptly. A return address is important, Walker says, because while Santa may know the whereabouts of every child, the post office requires an address. Letters to Santa do not need a postage stamp.

In Terrace, letters to Santa should be postmarked by Decem- ber 18th for a pre-Christmas reply. Address your letters to Santa Claus, North Pole, Canada. And don’t forget the postal code: HOH OHO.

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