Whats Santas proper mailing address?
Some 100,000 letters addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole,” wing their way each year to 99705. That’s the zip code for North Pole, Alaska, and the subject of the ZipUSA feature in the December 2000 issue of National Geographic magazine. About 1,750 miles (2,820 kilometers) south of its polar namesake, North Pole in Alaska is a lot more festive than the arctic Pole. The town, which bills itself as a place “where the spirit of Christmas lives year-round,” has street names like Snowman Lane and Saint Nicholas Drive and dresses its lampposts like candy canes. In Canada the address for Santa is North Pole H0H 0H0. This official Canadian postal code lets 15,000 volunteer postal employees help Santa personally answer over one million annual Christmas letters many from outside Canada. Polar flights allow airlines to trim hours off flight times from North America and Europe to Asia and the Pacific Region. By crossing over the polar region, planes are able to fly shorter distances and burn less
