Santa letters

Just The One

Years ago if you sent a letter to Santa, lapland, the northpole you would get a reply from Santa. Is this still the case?

Rabies

Ya, An Post were still doing that service last year. Should still be available.

crosstownk

How do I avail of this service?

Rabies

crosstownk wrote:

How do I avail of this service?

Rabies wrote:

Ya, An Post were still doing that service last year. Should still be available.

Huh

Nevyn

http://www.letterfairy.ie/ie/cont.nsf/home/letterfairy

http://www.emailsanta.com/

http://www.santa-claus.com/html/cj_world/

http://santawrotetome.com/

http://www.greetingsfromsanta.com/

Beruthiel

crosstownk wrote:

How do I avail of this service?

Write a letter, address it to Santa, post it.
You'll get a reply, make sure your letter has your return address on it

magnumlady

An post do it every year. Its really good, they send a postcard from Santa to everyone who writes a letter.

crosstownk

magnumlady wrote:

An post do it every year. Its really good, they send a postcard from Santa to everyone who writes a letter.

I checked the An Post website and seen no mention of it..................maybe it's too early or just that they don't mention it so as not to give the game away

Beruthiel wrote:

Write a letter, address it to Santa, post it.
You'll get a reply, make sure your letter has your return address on it

Yeah - I just have to figure out what I want first

deisemum

Mine receive emails from Santa (ahem) with lots of very accurate info about each of them much to their amazement.:D

Fast_Mover

In my house we used to put the letter up the chimney about one and a half to two weeks before christmas and santa would come and collect it during the night.
The first time I heard about posting santa letters in the post box thing was when it came up in conversation with college friends. I was so amazed, as were they about the way I did it.

qwertplaywert

remember the year father christmas got kidnapped?i though christmas was going to be over that year........

MyBaby

As far as i can remember the address for the an post santa is

The North Pole
GPO,
Freepost,
Dublin 1

I saw it listed in the new tesco christmas magazine. Will double check if i can find the magazine. Thats if the little one didnt rip it to pieces and it was trown out lol

magnumlady

We just used to put Santa, The North Pole.
The lady in the post office kept them all together until Dec 8th and then sent them to the GPO and they sent the postcards back.

Fracture

I remember sending off letters to santa as a kid and i did get letters back, it was kinda exciting as a kid.

Beruthiel wrote:

Write a letter, address it to Santa, post it.
You'll get a reply, make sure your letter has your return address on it

Yeh i remember putting my address on the back of it too.

crosstownk

MyBaby wrote:

As far as i can remember the address for the an post santa is

The North Pole
GPO,
Freepost,
Dublin 1

I saw it listed in the new tesco christmas magazine. Will double check if i can find the magazine. Thats if the little one didnt rip it to pieces and it was trown out lol

Thanks - that's what I was looking for! If you find the magazine has different address let me know.

Santa Claus

You can also PM me and I'll reply back

MyBaby

crosstownk wrote:

Thanks - that's what I was looking for! If you find the magazine has different address let me know.

No probs, will have a look later after work.

MyBaby

Ok to confirm the address is:

Santa Claus
North Pole,
GPO,
Dublin 1

hazeler

A friend of mine and I had the "do an Post still send out replies?" conversation last week and she popped down to our local post office in Limerick. my daughter is 5 and has never recieved a postcard back like I did when I was young. The lady behind the counter told my friend that An Post no longer offered that service and the kids who send their letters through an Post would not recive a reply. She said that the reason she felt was so many kids and so little time, she also commented on the fact that the Limerick Leader, our local paper, asked kids to send their letters into them and they would print them in the friday broadsheet edition!

I wonder is it only the GPO in Dublin who send out replies to the kids who send their letters through there?

sasmac

I work for An post and they still do the letters and as far as i know it is country wide. There is a cut of date and all replies will be sent out on the 18 of December so get your letters in early so there is no upset faces.

smashey

The service is still available in Donegal.

tiggs

hi... I dont have any children but for the past number of years I have done up Santa reply letters and sent them for friends children, my niece and nephew and my bosses grankids... ya can really personalise them - and a bit of clip art goes a long way!!

That's how we cover it... must get working on them this year.. every year theres more to do!!

All this talk about crimbo....

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

sharonlarkin

Hi, I found some lovely santa replies on ebay. I got 3 for about 10 euros. Beautifully decorated, stamped with a North Pole stamp. They use the childs name and age. Well worth the price. I cant wait to see the kids faces.

banaco73

They has the santa post bag in my post office today

Dublin 18 Sandyford

l3LoWnA

The girl I sit next to at work does the whole Santa reply letter things aswell. She has no kids and loves doing things for other peoples children you know. maybe I'll ask her to do mine in trade for a mince pie this year...but it would be nice to bring my daughter to a post box and let her actually "post" the letter herself. It's a nice service from An Post though isn't it.

luckat

Years ago I worked for An Post (or rather P7T) and wrote a couple of those form letters, which were used for years. Wonder if they still use my ones!

Femelade

i work for a radio station in cork and we hand out letters for kids to fill in, then we take them back to the station and everyone gets a reply.

giddyup

They defo do this from the GPO in Dublin. A relation of mine works in the office that among many other things handle all the weird stuff which inlucdes sending out the santa letters. My wife has a Monty and he sends her a load of them every year for her kids.

TequilaMockingBird

If I remember correctly, An Post staff do this in their own time, unpaid. If so, its appreciated very much guys!

Hagar

I wonder could the Santa Strike Force send emails?

Tigress

If you post your childs letter to Santa through An Post do you ever get that Santa letter back!

mmmmmmm.......

huh i never heard of this service but it sounds great.we should take it one step further and do what the swedish do-basically your neighbour comes in dressed as santa every christmas and hands the presents out himself and then you pay back your neighbour by doing the same thing!its brilliant and works great,except the kids get a bit suspisious when they reach about 5 years old and realise santa looks a lot like mammy and daddys friends!!:D

dame

Tigress wrote: »

If you post your childs letter to Santa through An Post do you ever get that Santa letter back!

My mother-in-law recently found a couple of old Santa letters her kids had written years ago and it was lovely to see them! They hadn't been posted though.


When we were kids we would write our letters, our mother would read them (to check for spelling etc and to see we were polite and grateful for last years presents ) and then we'd throw them in the fire. The smoke would go up the chimney and take them to Santa. It worked for us! We never got a reply though but we didn't realise that anyone else did so we weren't bothered.

Loopy

Wouldn't know... Our Dad took us to Santa's Grave when we were knee height.....:D

Santa Claus

Tigress wrote: »

If you post your childs letter to Santa through An Post do you ever get that Santa letter back!

Nope. An post pass them on to the post men in the North pole who deliver them to Santa

looptheloop wrote: »

Wouldn't know... Our Dad took us to Santa's Grave when we were knee height.....:D

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated !!!



On a serious note, when we were kids Santa used to read out what we wanted on RTE radio 1 on christmas eve...always made me feel special ! (same as an post, send letters to santa rte radio centre, donnybrook, dublin 4)

biko

mmmmmmm....... wrote: »

huh i never heard of this service but it sounds great.we should take it one step further and do what the swedish do-basically your neighbour comes in dressed as santa every christmas and hands the presents out himself and then you pay back your neighbour by doing the same thing!its brilliant and works great,except the kids get a bit suspisious when they reach about 5 years old and realise santa looks a lot like mammy and daddys friends!!:D

Yeah, I've done this one more than a few occasions. Good times

Catari Jaguar

http://www.emailsanta.com/

For the tech geek children in your family. Send Santa an email by clicking options to form a letter, and you get an instant personalised reply that they can print off!

I's also great for older kids who might be doubting his existence. It kinda had me believing again...

tommy21

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but apparently they are NOT doing Santa letters this year, or so a post office in Cork told me yesterday. They may have stacks of generic letters available for collection in the coming weeks for parents etc. to collect but looks like scrooge has tightened his belt on the free postage! Bit mad really they had a letters to santa box and all, and I only found out because I asked.

mikemac

This is fantastic, I never knew this existed

Just assumed An Post dumped the letters

Fair play An Post

The idea was that the postage wasn't free. You had to put a stamp on the "letter to santa" in order to get a reply and that was infact the cost of your reply being delivered to your child.

Last year I just did up a lovely letter and printed it on a colour printer and posted it myself back to my daughter. It's nice because it is personalised for her. I'll be doing the same this year

Big Bag of Chips

The ritual in our house (only started last year when the eldest was older enough to realise what a letter was...!) is the letters get written, they put them in an envelope, address it to

Santy
The North Pole

go to the post office - buy their own stamp, stick it on the letter, drop it in the post box and a while later a postcard/card thing arrives in the door, delivered by our An Post postman.. from the main man.

We got our reply last year. This year we haven't managed to get out to the post office yet.. but are hoping to do so early next week.

An Post send the replies (well Santy sends them.. An post delivers them!) I'm 33, and I used to get them many moons ago, and last year was the first year we sent off letters from our house, and they also got them back.

The Address

Santy
The North Pole

no more, no less, always worked for us!

Dipsy

This is a great alternative!! A video message from Santa. Its quick and easy to use and you get your video from Santa straight away They will love it :cool:

www.portablenorthpole.tv

enniscorthy

hi all be delighted to know for definate if they are doing the replies this year regards brian

CeNedra

Guys,


If you check the an post web site, the directions are pretty clear, as follows:

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/Christmas/Santa+Letters/Letters+to+Santa.htm

''Santa Post bulletin: Send your letter soon
Chief Elf, Feargal says "We are very busy here in the workshop. We have received so many of your letters. "


Children write your letter to Santa Claus, and post it off to

Santa Claus
North Pole

Provided you write early, and include a clearly written name and address, Santa's helpers in An Post will make sure you receive a personal reply from the great man himself, just before Christmas.

An Post has been helping Santa reply to children's letters free of charge for more than 20 years.''

amber2

Also a site

http://magicsanta.ca/

enniscorthy

thanks mate