It's almost that time of year again! For our USA friends, you can adopt local children's letters to Santa through the United States Postal Service's "Operation Santa"

Every year Santa gets more letters than he can answer. You can help—adopt a letter and fulfill someone's holiday wish.The United States Postal Service hosts "Operation Santa" each year, though only the last couple years has it been available through the web for certain areas. Now it appears to be open to everyone (in the US, anyway), as far as I can tell. Tell me in the comments if I'm wrong, though!Basically, through "adopting" a letter to Santa, you'll be able to gift the letter writer through the post office.A good summary of the program taken from this post at /r/Phoenix:Every year, the US Postal Service receives thousands of letters to Santa. Since 1912, the Postmaster General has allowed a handful of a dozen or so local post offices to read and adopt children's letters, particularly for families in obvious need. In the 1940s and 1950s, the public was allowed to participate, and the program was dubbed Operation Santa.Previously, participants had to go to participating post offices to view the physical letters. In 2017, the USPS ran a digital pilot of the program in their largest post office in New York City. Postal workers volunteered to sort and scan children's letters, removing any identifying information. The digital versions were made available online to the public. About 5,000 "elves" participated through the digital program.In 2018, the digital version of Operation Santa is expanding to several major cities, including Phoenix.So, now, you can view thousands of children's letters to Santa on the USPS Operation Santa website and help Santa deliver cheer to those in need.The OP of that thread also noted:The biggest impediment to Operation Santa's success is that USPS has done almost no marketing or promotion. Very few people know that the post office is doing this at all. So, I tell as many people as I can--in person and on social media--and encourage others to do the same.So once again I want to encourage those who can to participate and share :) via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2qrkn0c