Fax, email to replace letters to Santa Claus?
Categories: Preschoolers, Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, Fun & activities, Holidays
According to a recent report I read, the post office receives and distributes more mail on December 17th than any other day of the year. The reason? For one, folks are sending off all their Christmas presents--the 17th is a week before Christmas Eve. Another reason is that kids are also sending letters to Santa Claus.
Tradition holds that a child writes a letter to Santa using actual paper, mailing it off in an envelope complete with stamp to the North Pole. The letter, of course, after all its formalities--how is Santa, how is Mrs. Claus, etc.--is the means by which the child conveys his or her list of desired Christmas presents. In the modern world, however, one where Western Union has effectively ceased sending telegrams, adults and kids alike have access to all sorts of communication devices. Kids can choose from fax machines, emails and scans to get their letters to old Kris Kringle instead of doing it the old-fashioned way.
If it were up to my son he'd send his letter via blackberry--mine, in fact, if he could ever get it away from me long enough. (He doesn't seem to understand that eating my PDA will get him on Santa's naughty list.) I wonder how many old school letters will be sent to the North Pole this year, or if they'll mostly be replaced by jpegs, PDFs and instant messages!
How does your child plan on getting his or her letter to Santa this year? Anything particularly unique or humorous?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ame s 11-13-2008 @ 9:09PM
I wrote a letter to Santa when I was 5 and it was read by Santa on our local radio station. I didn't get the "real pee-anna" (piano) I asked for but I still got a kick out of it. Who knew Santa had such a deep Southern accent even though he was from the North Pole?
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Melissa 11-14-2008 @ 12:05PM
My daughter (she's 2 and a half) saw a commercial for Macy's the other day, with the Christmas trees and snow and whatever, and she immediately said "Santa, ho-ho?" Then they announced that "you can drop off your letter to Santa at any Macy's" (they are donating to a charity, although I can't remember which one), and she decided that's all she wanted to do--for the rest of the week! Everyday this week she has asked me "Santa, ho-ho lett-a? Mae-y's?" She craps me up, but we are going this weekend, with real paper and a real envelope, to drop off our letter to Santa!
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Bastian 11-27-2008 @ 2:34PM
Not only that, but you can also go online as a parent and create a letter from Santa Claus for your kids. Initially I thought this is a stupid idea. Why pay for that when I can write it myself. But then I discovered a cute little free site where I can generate the letters for my girl (4) and son (7). I will give it a try and see their reactions this year :)
By the way, the site is http://bestsantasletter.com/
Did any of you ever tried such a thing? What was the reaction?
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