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Free postage to the North Pole no more....

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  • #52
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    NO THEY DO NOT! :mad::(

    Our parents probably just threw ours in the bin I'm guessing.


  • #53
    Call me Al
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    libra02 wrote: »

    Yes they do. I know all my cousins n godchildren have received letters back for past 10 years. All over the country.
    Myself n my bro got one every year when we were writing and this was in 80's and early 90's.


    There may have been one or two slip through cracks but I have never heard of children never receiving one.

    Now if you send ones that were not put in an An Post postbox well that nothing to do with An Post.

    For instance I know of a friend who child posted their letter through a certain shop Santa letter box and didnt get one.
    It was obvious the shop dumped letters n didnt put them through An Post.

    So if you have kids stick a stamp on letter post it early and watch the letter from Santa arrive.
    We have to trust you to tell truth & admit that one came to the child. : )

    Well I guess my children's stamped letters must have both slipped through the cracks last year then.

    They didn't get replies and it was their first time posting them. Just as well I hadn't mentioned they would get responses from the man himself or they would have been very upset.
    We posted two letters to Santa again this week but I am not holding my breath for replies.


  • #54
    readytosnap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    I have come across numerous letters that have been sent to Santa clause and the children do not provide a return address, I would say roughly a 1/4 of them, so it's obviously not possible to send a reply.

    Are these the letters?


    146ig.jpg


  • #55
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    Does Santa not have email nowadays or Facerbook even? Sure what kid knows how to write a letter? Kids are stupid. :pac:


  • #56
    Call me Al
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    readytosnap wrote: »
    I have come across numerous letters that have been sent to Santa clause and the children do not provide a return address, I would say roughly a 1/4 of them, so it's obviously not possible to send a reply.

    Are these the letters?


    146ig.jpg

    I never saw one of those before.

    We sent ours with the address on the letter itself and not on the envelopes.


  • #57
    readytosnap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    Call me Al wrote: »
    I never saw one of those before.

    We sent ours with the address on the letter itself and not on the envelopes.

    well these are the ones An Post been sending out for at least the last 10 years, they have gotten a little smaller the last few years but still the same type.


  • #58
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Where do they deliver them to? ****ing Narnia?
    Why don't they just throw them in the bin?


  • #59
    Gru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Gru


    Ice Delivery Man: You've got to start charging more than a dollar a bag. We lost four more men on this expedition!
    Apu: If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it.

    It must be difficult getting those letters all the way to north pole!!


  • #60
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    libra02 wrote: »
    Yes they do. I know all my cousins n godchildren have received letters back for past 10 years. All over the country.
    Myself n my bro got one every year when we were writing and this was in 80's and early 90's.

    oh no they don't! (sorry panto season) :pac:


    ill never forget the one year i got a reply and my brother and sister didn't, another year my sister got a reply and my brother didn't, another year we all got replies!


    it was random! :pac:


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  • #61
    libra02
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭libra02


    Call me Al wrote: »

    Well I guess my children's stamped letters must have both slipped through the cracks last year then.

    They didn't get replies and it was their first time posting them. Just as well I hadn't mentioned they would get responses from the man himself or they would have been very upset.
    We posted two letters to Santa again this week but I am not holding my breath for replies.

    It seems obvious but did your kids put their address on the letter ?

    Otherwise how would Santa reply.

    If not try a 2nd letter this time with your address if they want a Santa reply


  • #62
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Santa, nothing but a damn commie. Better dead than red.


  • #63
    libra02
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭libra02


    readytosnap wrote: »
    I have come across numerous letters that have been sent to Santa clause and the children do not provide a return address, I would say roughly a 1/4 of them, so it's obviously not possible to send a reply.

    Are these the letters?


    146ig.jpg

    Exactly I would think it was obvious to put address on it.

    Those new letters are lovely. I cannot fully remember the ones I got but they must have been similar


  • #64
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Surely The North Pole would come under international rates though, alot more than 55c.


  • #65
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Assumed the thread title was a pisstake.
    To sum up An Post's announcement:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoW79KFlv9U


  • #66
    AnnaSophia
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭AnnaSophia


    My dad used to write us all personalised letters from Santy, which he would conveniently find by the front door on Christmas morning :D I could never understand how Santy knew just so much about us all :D


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  • #67
    flanno_7hi
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭flanno_7hi


    I still remember getting one of these letters back from santa when i was little. We used to do the whole putting it up the chimney thng but one year I had started to have my doubts. My ma got me to post the letter myself and I got the reply back, Thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Kept me believing for a little while longer.


  • #68
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You know the way kids always change their minds about what presents they want ?

    Get them to write it n a letter to Santa.

    "The letter's gone now, you can't change your mind"


  • #69
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    I dunno about Skynet. I usually follow the NORAD one and they've done it since the beginning so I doubt they'd stop this year.
    scary when you think that a little girl was on the hot line

    suppose she asked for a game of Global Thermonuclear Warfare ?


  • #70
    Call me Al
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    libra02 wrote: »

    It seems obvious but did your kids put their address on the letter ?

    Otherwise how would Santa reply.

    If not try a 2nd letter this time with your address if they want a Santa reply

    It is obvious! And yes, they were 2&4 so I had to write the letters on their behalf, so I put a return address on the letters themselves in the expectation that they would get a reply.... And I put stamps on the envelope too.

    And there are return addresses and stamps on this years envelopes, just like we are asked.


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