If any of my blog readers want to help, send me an email and I'll forward it to LInda.
Volunteers needed:
Canada Post Santa Letter writing starts next week in Cloverdale. I am the co-ordindinator. The Cloverdale Post Office is at 66 Ave & 177 St. Even an hour will help. We are doing it in the morning. If you live outside Surrey, anywhere in Canada and want to volunteer message me and I'll pass along your information so you can help out in your area. For over 32 years, Canada Post employees and retirees have helped Santa answer over 21.8 million letters. In response to a call for help that comes every year around mid-November, some 9,000 postal elves are dispatched to help Santa answer the thousands of letters he receives every day. Santa’s postal elves will spend over 226,000 hours to help Santa answer more than 1 million letters in 30 different languages.
To all the postal elves – old and new – thank you!
Santa by the numbers!
There’s a lot of preparation and support that goes into running and promoting Santa’s Post Office and you may be surprised at some of them. The Top 10 things you probably don’t know about the Santa Letter-writing program are:
Since 1982, Postal Elves have helped Santa respond to more than 21.8 million letters!
Santa’s Corner – Santa’s online post office – is visited a quarter of a million times a season.
Information about the program is mailed to more than 3,000 libraries, 4,000 daycares and 9,000 schools!
Santa knows Braille and 29 other languages!
The television and radio Public Service Announcement promoting the program is broadcast an average of 7,000 times in December!
Santa’s special helpers, also known as mall Santas, also depend on Canada Post’s postal elves to answer the mail they receive for Santa. Postal elves get bags of mail from malls across Canada!
It takes a lot of paper to manage Santa’s mail… 1.6 million pieces of letterhead and 1.7 million envelopes!
It takes a lot of elves to manage Santa’s mail – 9,000 elves volunteer some 226,000 hours of time to help Santa with his mail.
The Santa Letter-writing Program is the focus of hundreds of positive media stories every year!
