Surprise your child with a Santa letter from the North Pole

Imagine the joy your child will experience when he or she receives a letter from Santa Claus with a North Pole postmark.

The U.S. Postal Service is making this possible through its postmark re-mailing program.

Michelle Saracusa, acting marketing manager for the Massachusetts Postal District, said holiday greeting cards are also eligible for the unique postmark.

She explained how the program works as follows:

“For the letter to your child, you write a letter to your child and sign it from Santa. You place this letter into an envelope addressed to your child with the return address from SANTA, NORTH POLE and please make sure you have a First-Class stamp affixed to the envelope.

“For holiday greeting cards, you write out your cards like you normally would. You place the cards into their envelopes. Address the envelopes to the people you want to receive them. Place First-Class stamps on the envelopes and either have the return address from the NORTH POLE or from you and your address.

“Then place the envelopes into a larger envelope or box addressed to:

NORTH POLE CHRISTMAS CANCELLATION
POSTMASTER
5400 MAIL TRAIL
FAIRBANKS AK 99709-9998

“Please make sure appropriate postage is affixed to this larger envelope or box. This envelope needs to be received in Fairbanks, AK, before Dec. 10. After that date you should consider mailing requests via Express Mail.”