Who will wrote more letters to Santa for this Christmas Eve from USA?”
The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday it would reverse a decision to cancel its annual Letters to Santa program because of security concerns. Earlier this week, the postal service announced it would axe the 55-year-old program, whereby children write letters to Santa Claus at the Alaska community of North Pole and receive responses written by volunteers. Last year, officials discovered a volunteer with the program was a registered sex offender and had to tighten its regulations and privacy requirements. The North Pole volunteers who open the letters and answer them each year were outraged at the cancellation. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska pleaded with the postal service to preserve the tradition. “We got a lot of feedback from the community and elected officials,” said postal service spokesman Ernie Swanson. “We decided that because of all the interest, we would re-institute it.” But volunteers will have to follow tight security requirements, Swanson said. “We do not give out the
