Christmas is more than a month away but Operation Santa is in full swing the holidays.
The program is open now for children or families to write their wishes down for Santa to fulfill. They should be postmarked by Dec. 9, the USPS said.
Writers need to include their names, address and of course, their holiday wishes, and send them to Santa in the mail.
Santa’s address is :
Santa
123 Elf Road
North Pole, 88888
The USPS said that you should write legibly, list gifts in order of preference and be specific. For more tips, click here .
To make it a bit easier, the USPS has a series of templates ready to make the letters stand out.
Starting on Nov. 18 , the letters will be available online for anyone to read and hopefully grant the wishes contained in them.
To adopt a letter, you create an account on the Operation Santa website. After you read them and select who you want to help, you buy the gifts and ship them.
Operation Santa has also partnered with Toys ‘R’ Us to put together an online catalog where you can choose the gifts and have them sent directly from “Santa’s Gift Shoppe.”