Children all over the world believe in miracles and fairy tales. Therefore, a good tradition has developed of writing letters to Santa Claus on the eve of Christmas and New Year. Children and adults write to the good wizard about themselves, their achievements, ask for some gifts, and most importantly, they want to be heard and hope for an answer, so that they can then proudly say: “Santa Claus exists, he himself wrote me a letter!”
Such letters have been sent to Santa Claus for over a hundred years.
According to news.un.org, every year in the second half of December, postmen from different countries take millions of letters from mailboxes addressed to Santa Claus, Father Frost or St. Nicholas. According to the Universal Postal Union, in 2006, for example, there were six million, and the number is increasing. He himself, of course, cannot answer all the children, but he has assistants all over the world: from Finland to New Zealand.
For example, the US Postal Service has been responding to children's letters addressed to Santa Claus since 1912.
Finnish postmen receive the most messages to Santa Claus, and children from 150 countries write to him.
In Canada, Santa has received almost one and a half million letters from children. Moreover, everything is answered by his assistants - “elves”, whose role is taken by employees of the Canadian Post. The Letters to Santa program has been running at Canada Post for 30 years. There, 11 thousand employees respond to letters.