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Friday, 20 November, 2009
No Replies From Santa
(with comments)
Think of the children! Popular Santa letter program ends in Alaska.
Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.
The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.
Why?
Last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child's letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to tighten rules in such programs nationwide...
North Pole Mayor Doug Isaacson agreed that caution is necessary to protect children. But he's outraged North Pole program should be affected by a sex offender's actions on the East Coast - and he thinks it's wrong that locals just found out about the change in recent days.
- By Pender. Comment posted 20-Nov-2009 @08:31am:Sex offender or child molester? I guess it depends on his offence, but I can't seem to find infos on what type of offender he is. Best to freak out just in case!
I wonder how many unregistered sex offenders there have been doing that same job. - By Bisbonian. Comment posted 20-Nov-2009 @09:39am:Homeless man pees on a bush by the side of the road. Woman sees it, turns him in for "exposing himself". Registered sex offender. Man goes through a nasty divorce. Ex-wife accuses him of molesting their daughter. Registered sex offender. Couple arrested for having sex on a (they thought) deserted beach by moonlight. Registered sex offender. Surfer changing out of his wetsuit in hoity-toity beach town, accidentally drops his towel....
- By Doug. Comment posted 20-Nov-2009 @11:39am:North Pole Alaska? That's the fake Santa. Everyone knows that the North Pole is in Canada.
Send mail to:
Santa Claus
North Pole, Canada
HOHOHO
(yes, that's a real postal code) - By . Comment posted 20-Nov-2009 @05:28pm:Well. That was a waste of a Stamp.
- By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Comment posted 21-Nov-2009 @03:24am:America was spending tax dollars on this since 1954?! On a fictional character that is not even mentioned in the bible? Where are the "fiscal conservatives" when you need them.