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| 11.30.22
USPS' Operation Santa: Will You Be a Secret Santa for a Child in Need?
Help make a child's Christmas wish a reality with USPS' Operation Santa
How it Works
- The United States Postal Service (USPS) is once again getting in the holiday spirit with its Operation Santa campaign, which matches letters from kids with strangers willing to gift random acts of kindness.
- When letters are written to Santa, they get delivered to USPS where personal or identifying information is redacted. The letters are then available for "adoption" by big-hearted people who send the requested gifts to the USPS. The postal service then distributes the gift to the letter writer.
- USPS receives over 10,000 letters per year. Letter adoption begins on November 28th and ends on December 21st.
- Full details of the program, and how to participate, are listed in USPS’s Operation Santa FAQ section.
Santa's Start
- What we now call Operation Santa began in 1912 when Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock allowed employees and citizens to respond to letters addressed to Santa.
- The digital iteration of the program was launched in 2017 and went nationwide in 2020.
- USPS:
“The goal for the future is, and has always been, to help more children and families in need have a happy holiday when they otherwise may not — one letter to Santa at a time.”
—Emma Kansiz
(Photo credit: IStock/FatCamera)
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Why limit this to only one month of the year? Need is not confined to a monthly or seasonal schedule.
We work with local 'toys for tots' campaigns to help assure that the limited donations are made to people most in need.
Our building has a community effort to provide toys to children who are without. Since early November there have been large bins in our lobby being filled up with boxed (new) but unwrapped toys.