Last year, La Poste received 1.2 million letters, to which volunteer postal workers and temporary workers respond free of charge.
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Santa’s secretaries are back in action! Children have until December 20 to write to Santa Claus, whose famous secretariat installed by La Poste in Libourne (Gironde), which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, reopens its doors on Tuesday November 15. Children can write to him in two ways, opting for a traditional letter or electronically, La Poste explained on Monday.
On the envelope of their letter, children can simply write “Santa Claus”, without forgetting their address on the back to be sure to receive a response. The letter to Santa Claus does not need a stamp. They can also choose the electronic version on the Pere-noel.laposte.fr website by choosing “write to Santa Claus”.
Santa Claus and his sixty or so elves – volunteer postal workers and temporary workers – undertake to respond free of charge, in French or in English, to all children and classes. children “will receive a beautiful letter from Santa Claus along with a coloring postcard that they can send to their family and friends”specifies La Poste in a press release.
Last year, La Poste received 1.2 million letters intended for Santa Claus. Initiated in 1962, this free PTT service had at the time received 5,000 letters from children, who had in return found in their mailbox a standard response written by the famous pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto, who was the minister’s sister. of the Post Office at the time, Jacques Marette.