letter from santa

[little_lil]

last year when my little one wrote his letter to santa we put a stamp on it, addressed it to the north pole and put it in the post box.

A few weeks later to my surprise we recieved a reply from Santa. It was a card to put in the window with some stickers to place on the scene and was signed love santa. I am not sure if the post office advertise that they do this but I was very impressed and it didn't cost me a penny.

We will be doing it again this year.

[16011996]

thanks for this, a great idea for my little one. ;D

[robu]

Did you post your letter in November or December?

My little girl will be thrilled to get a letter from Santa

Thanks

Rob.

[rushnowt]

What a great tip, i'll be getting mine to do this, this year ;D ;D

[Cullumpster]

Thanks for this, i was just about to spend £12 on 2 letters !!!

[normski]

The address to write to Father Christmas is:

Father Christmas
Santa's Grotto
Reindeer Land
SAN TA1

The Royal Mail will ensure it gets to Father Christmas provided it is sent before 16th December 2004.

[normski]

Oops should read

Reindeerland

[mazzza]

This is great.....

Last year I paid £5.99

The response we got was an A4 letter back totally full of small writing (computer print out!) which my little boy got fed up with reading by half way through!

[little_lil]

wow our letter got all the way from the north pole to Reindeerland - must be santa's magic ;) ;) ;)

[shanz_mum]

thanks for this my little one is only small but it's a nice keep sake i was going to pay for like many others why is this not more widly advertised!! 8)

[jockettuk]

my daughter only wrote on the envelope... santa at the north pole and put it in the post box without a stamp and she still got a reply from santa ... just make sure you have there address on the letter then let them put whatever they want on it post it

[uzziel]

Hi,

You wrote "make sure it is address to Sweden..." I used to work for RM too, surely it shouldnt have a real country on, as as soon as thats scanned in, off it goes to that country.

Just write "to santa" or somethign, including a county on it will just ensure that it arrives at that country, and probably baffle them somewhat...

[hesjane]

The Post Office have been doing this for years. My kids started writing to Santa back in 1983 and always, always received a letter back from Santa. There letters were sent with either no stamps or Green Shield/Co-op stamps.

Perhaps it's 'not widely advertised' because if it was there would be such a huge demand that they would then have to start charging - as it is they can deal with the number of letters to Santa that they have.

[mistythyme]

I have done this the last 3 years with DD

you dont need to put a stamp on the envelope and just address it to santa/father christmas/north pole etc


and remmeber to put your childs name & address in it :D

[katrina]

Do you need to put a S.A.E in with it?

[little_lil]

katrina

we didn't put a sae in and from the replies here it would seem we didn't even need to put a stamp on the original envelope

[shanz_mum]

i've just sent my littles girls letter off to santa not long now ;D ;D ;D