The Postal Service's Ray Daiutolo says says mail carriers are inundated with letters to Santa every year.
"We get thousands and thousands of letters addressed to Santa every year,” Daiutolo said. “Most of those letters are asking for toys and games. Some of the letters will ask for clothes, maybe shoes. And then there are a few that ask for help, maybe for the letter writer themselves, or a loved one. So you have your selection of letters."
Daiutolo says Postal Service patrons have been fulfilling some of these Christmas wishes for more than 100 years. However, he says, if you want to adopt one of those letters to make a child or adult happy this year, don't go to the post office.
Instead, “you can go on your computer, access the website, complete some very simple information, and then go there and find a letter and hopefully adopt it."
Daiutolo says the idea is to make it easier for people to help others. When you sign up, you receive a QR code, which allows you to mail the package, but the recipient’s address remains anonymous.
If you want to send a letter to Santa, he says, there is an actual address: 123 Elf Road, North Pole.
"The ZIP code is easy to remember," he said. “It's 88888."