Santa's mailbox flooded with 6M letters in 2006
- December 18, 2007 11:50 AM
- By Commodities
The post office at the North Pole was flooded with some six million letters in 2006, according to the Universal Postal Union, an international group representing 191 postal agencies.
About five million helpers around the globe helped respond to children's letters, cards and parcels, according to the UPU survey of postal operators.
The survey also found Canadian children sent 1,060,000 letters to Santa in 2006. In France, about 1,220,000 children sent letters to Pere Noel while Father Christmas in Great Britain received 750,000 pieces of mail. U.S. postal offices do not kept statistics on mail sent to Santa.
Canada Post, which has its own H0H 0H0 postal code, replies to letters in 26 languages, ahead of Deutsche Post, which responds in 16 languages. In Ukraine, children who send letters are entered in a lottery and vie for 1,000 prizes.
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