Children don’t have to worry about their letters not making it to Santa, despite the disruptions from the Canada Post strike that just ended, the postal agency said.
Canada Post provided an update Wednesday about its Santa Claus letter program in a press release, reassuring children that their letters will be delivered to the North Pole by Christmas Eve. However, Santa won’t have time to respond to them this year, the Crown corporation said.
“Unfortunately, Santa won’t have time to respond to letters received through the mail this year, but he is looking forward to reading everyone’s letters,” the Crown corporation wrote in an email to CTVNews.ca.
Canada Post reopened its facilities Tuesday after a month-long strike and has begun to “safely” ramp up operations.
“Please know that it will take time to stabilize our operations,” Canada Post wrote in a press release, noting that letters to Santa are always “handled with special care.”
While there may be a backlog of letters and parcels because of the strike, all Santa letters mailed by Dec. 23 will be delivered straight to the North Pole thanks to scanners that will locate the letters, Canada Post added.
The letters are identified by the HOH OHO postal code.
Canada Post removed the deadline for its Santa Claus letter program earlier this month after the national workers’ strike suspended deliveries, except in certain cases such as for government pension and federal financial aid cheques, live animals and other living creatures.
The Santa Claus letter program helps deliver up to 1.5 million letters from Canadian children to the North Pole each year.
With files from The Canadian Press