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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