CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The post office’s Letters to Santa program is now exclusively on-line and very different from years past in Chicago.
The main post office on Harrison used to put thousands of letters to Santa out in its second floor lobby. If you looked through them and found one you wanted to answer, you could.
Now, because of Covid, Operation Santa is online. Sometimes it may be hard to find a letter from a needy family in Chicago.
Also, because the letters all have to have addresses redacted and then have to be scanned and posted, that takes time. Sometimes it’s hard to find any letters. From anywhere.
“It’s not a perfect system and (not) a perfect world right now, but just a source that people can still do something nice at Christmastime,” says Tim Norman, the Chicago spokesperson for the Postal Service.
If you do have patience, sometimes you run across a letter like this one from a senior in high school in Texas.
“I will be attending college,” he says. “My mom has not worked for quite some time,” and he asks for a gift card to buy things for school.
He signs off: “Thank you and blessings to you.”
Another young person asks for a green iguana.
“I have been trying really hard to be good this year, and I am lonely and want a pet,” the child’s letter says.
“I am allergic to cats and dogs so I thought what about a lizard. Sofia.
“PS Can you also get me stuff to take care of it?”
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