Santa Mail "Elves" Get Postal Reprieve

(AP)  An Alaska senator says the U.S. Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office.

Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Deputy Postmaster General Pat Donahoe told her in a phone call the agency has reconsidered its decision to not allow volunteers to answer the letters.

The program was suspended over privacy concerns.

Calls to the Postal Service were not immediately returned.

Murkowski says Donahoe said the program would resume in North Pole, but with some new security measures in place to protect the identities of children.

[justsane-2009]

glad to hear it...it shouldn't have had to go this far.

[John_Merritt]

Does anybody know the name of Santa's favorite elf, you know the one that was his best friend, and Santa trusted everything to him? Just wondering because when someone sets their mind and the will to match, good things come out of bad situations all the time. That is the wonder of a person's resilience, determination, commitment and pride of ownership of something very special. Good job Santa and the PO.

[rwsmith29456]

Don't stop a program like that on account of a few idiots. If they weren't using the mail for snooping then they would be doing it some other way.