Changes made to Santa letter writing program
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NEW YORK (AP) — A sex offender has taken some of the joy out of the Postal Service's Operation Santa program.
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For decades, many children's letters to Santa have been answered by teams of volunteers at post offices around the country.
Some of those volunteers also sent gifts to the children, or even delivered them in person.
But those face-to-face encounters may be over after a sex offender was spotted among the volunteers this week.
Letter-writing resumed on Saturday in New York and Chicago, but now postal workers are blocking out any personal information from "Dear Santa" letters and substituting codes that match addresses known only to the post office. Only then are gifts mailed.
A post office spokesman says the spirit of giving is still there, but times change.
www.dailyrecord.com/article/2008 ... 1/81220005
This just makes me sad
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For decades, many children's letters to Santa have been answered by teams of volunteers at post offices around the country.
Some of those volunteers also sent gifts to the children, or even delivered them in person.
But those face-to-face encounters may be over after a sex offender was spotted among the volunteers this week.
Letter-writing resumed on Saturday in New York and Chicago, but now postal workers are blocking out any personal information from "Dear Santa" letters and substituting codes that match addresses known only to the post office. Only then are gifts mailed.
A post office spokesman says the spirit of giving is still there, but times change.
www.dailyrecord.com/article/2008 ... 1/81220005
This just makes me sad
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