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Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters
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| Nov 21
| RACHEL D'ORO
Posted on 11/21/2009 3:15:49 AM PST by JoeProBono
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
During Christmas seasons for decades, these dedicated elves responded to thousands of letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole."
All that was ending with a U.S. Postal Service decision to discontinue the program based in the small Alaskan town amid privacy concerns.
The elves from Santa's Mailbag vowed to fight the decision, while North Pole residents voiced outrage.
A reversal of the Postal Service move was announced Friday.
"We never wanted to spoil people's Christmas," said agency spokesman Ernie Swanson. "It was just a decision we had to make based on privacy concerns, and it is labor-intensive. But it's still nice that we're able to resume this and still make people's holiday."
The letters will now be answered under tightened privacy rules implemented nationwide by the Postal Service in response to security concerns that arose in a similar program in Maryland last year.
"It's great!" said chief elf Gabby Gaborik of Santa's Mailbag.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alaska; antichristmas; christmas; gabbygaborik; jpb; letters; northpole; santa; satire; thanksgiving; uspostalservice; usps; xmas; xmax
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The box of tissues is a nice touch.
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Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all. Say, Santa, have you seen any letters to you from 1600 Pennsylvania NW, Zip 20500 yet /s
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The bacon tree wouldn’t last in my house with 2 dogs, a cat - and most of all, ME!
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