Postage stamp required on Santa letter ?

Ally Dick

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

Eire Go Brach

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

How do you expect it to get to the North Pole without a stamp?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

In fairness, you can dump a letter without a stamp in any post box. The 70 cent gets a reply back to the child - post out and a reply all for a mere 70 cent.

RentDayBlues

The stamp is only required if you want a response

Shannon757

It's got a long way to go. 70 cent is good value for money.

me_irl

Heard a great quote about it earlier: "This is institutional-level of lying!" I have to agree.. and wish I came up with that.

Lights On

70 cent?? That is taking the piss to be fair, you'd be better off telling the little one that Santa isn't real, would save you the hassle.

Actually no.

If you pay for the stamp, the child will receive a letter back from Santa.

You don't have to put a stamp on a letter that you put in a post box so that it doesn't get delivered to imagination land. What do you they're going to do? Send elves knocking on your door for the 70cent?

Jaysis.

Fleawuss

Is there suddenly something wrong about making money out of Christmas?

mightyreds

Lights On wrote: »

70 cent?? That is taking the piss to be fair, you'd be better off telling the little one that Santa isn't real, would save you the hassle.

Santa isn't real

namloc1980

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

Nope they're not asking you to do that at all. But don't let facts get in the way of a good old rant.

JamBur

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

You acknowledge that An Post is loss making, but you won't cover the cost of having a reply mailed back. Do you want anything else free with your order of ridiculousness?

AndyBoBandy

mightyreds wrote: »

Santa isn't real

You just ruined my life!!

I'm 33

Into The Blue

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

You just ruined my life!!

I'm 33

Don't mind him, he was just bold last year, so didn't get anything

Guy:Incognito

mightyreds wrote: »

Santa isn't real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTNyKIGXiI

It's only 70c ffs

Antar Bolaeisk

We always sent them to Santa by means of the fireplace. The smoke carried the words to the North Pole (Smoke goes up you see) where the letters then recombined for reading purposes. Kinda like an old-school teleporter but just not as fast.

It never failed, I always got that surprise I asked for.

stimpson

Pfft. Writing letters. What is this? The 1950's?

My kids will be tweeting links to their Pinterests on Snapchat (or something)

Poochie05

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

We always sent them to Santa by means of the fireplace. The smoke carried the words to the North Pole (Smoke goes up you see) where the letters then recombined for reading purposes. Kinda like an old-school teleporter but just not as fast.

It never failed, I always got that surprise I asked for.

Us too! I have a parent from France and always assumed that' sphere it came from.
When I talk about it, no one else seems to have done this and everyone thinks we were so gullible to fall for it! :rolleyes:
But I think the magic of this is nicer than just posting a letter, made perfect sense to me, and I always got the surprise I asked for, most times lovingly made by Santa's elves, who used to head to the workshop after all the kids had gone to bed

Degag

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

Overreact much? 70c to cover a child getting a reply from Santa at Christmas?

lertsnim

Write the reply from Santa yourself if it's that important.

AnonoBoy

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned.

Guys whatever you do don't tell the OP about all the corruption, embezzlement, murder and child abuse that have been perpetrated by "respectable" institutions over the years. His head will explode!

whisky_galore

70 cent only? Are you as tight as a duck's arse OP?

Are there cutbacks on the pocket money now?

Ally Dick

RoboKlopp wrote: »

It's only 70c ffs

That's a lot of money if you're 5

Valetta

Ally Dick wrote: »

That's a lot of money if you're 5

It's only 69c if you have a franking machine.

AnonoBoy

Valetta wrote: »

It's only 69c if you have a franking machine.

TO THE BARGAINS ALERT THREAD!!!!

darkpagandeath

What ever happened to burning the letter and it getting to the destination via magic ?

Reminds me of this made up company.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ally Dick wrote: »

That's a lot of money if you're 5

And it's pure Scrooge if you make a child pay for the stamp on his letter to Santa himself.

AnonoBoy

Ally Dick wrote: »

That's a lot of money if you're 5

Do you make the kid pay for his own presents too?

Collie D

Brodie Helpful Club wrote: »

And it's pure Scrooge if you make a child pay for the stamp on his letter to Santa himself.

Kids these days are too coddled. If I wanted seventy cent when I was a lad I'd have to do fourteen hours down th' pits making sure the air was safe before they sent down the canaries

AnonoBoy

Collie D wrote: »

Kids these days are too coddled. If I wanted seventy cent when I was a lad I'd have to do fourteen hours down th' pits making sure the air was safe before they sent down the canaries

Working down mine shaft?

You were lucky.

We had to dig mine shafts in our day.

selous

Think you're all overlooking a major thing here, the North Pole is foreign mail, should be E1.00 not 70c :D:D

(And don't forget to put a return address on it, in case he's gone away or incomplete address:eek:)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

selous wrote: »

Think you're all overlooking a major thing here, the North Pole is foreign mail, should be E1.00 not 70c :D:D

(And don't forget to put a return address on it, in case he's gone away or incomplete address:eek:)

€1.05 actually.

Collie D

On a related note I was in the airport on Saturday and there were three scheduled flights to the North Pole that morning. And saw two bus loads of little ones getting a Garda escort to catch one of the flights. The Make a Wish Foundation I assumed. Even an oft-times grinchy non-parent like myself smiled at that.

My own flight was cancelled. Just hope theirs got away all right

darkpagandeath

And just to add is this not to get a reply from Santa ?

gctest50

stimpson wrote: »

Pfft. Writing letters. What is this? The 1950's?

My kids will be tweeting links to their Pinterests on Snapchat (or something)

https://www.portablenorthpole.com/en/

Did you know the PNP Children’s Hospital Program donates 5% of web purchases to kids hospitals around the world?

https://www.portablenorthpole.com/en/pages/hospital-donation

http://www.hellosanta.com/

Into The Blue

Ally Dick wrote: »

This is the lowest of the low as far as I'm concerned. A kid writes a letter to Santa and the PO are asking that they affix a 70 cent letter to it before they stick it in the special post box ????

I know the Post Office is losing money, but that's ridiculous

Ally Dick wrote: »

That's a lot of money if you're 5

So the lowest of the low is An Post charging 70c for a letter from Santa hand delivered to your door, but it's ok to pass the expense to a 5 yr old.........

cena

RentDayBlues wrote: »

The stamp is only required if you want a response

I thought An Post stopped that service years ago??

selous

No, still going, asked a postie today about it, he says any letter they get that has an address on it even if there's no stamp on it, gets a reply, even said there was a memo sent to offices that any Santa letters were not to be returned to sender, apparently one that was, made Joe Duffy some years back, oh to see that kids face:eek:

The Sun King

Titty fücking Christ..

Is there a Santa email address? That would be a pretty great service to set up! Like santa@lapland.com

ScumLord

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Working down mine shaft?

You were lucky.

We had to dig mine shafts in our day.

Aren't you lucky, we had no mineral deposits back in my day, we had to lure unsuspecting asteroids to the planet or there'd be no gold flakes in our goldschlager.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deleted User wrote: »

Is there a Santa email address? That would be a pretty great service to set up! Like santa@lapland.com

I think you could send it to any old address for a child and just reply yourself. Nothing beats them posting a letter and the excitement of the postman delivering a card in reply.

The Sidewards Man

70 cent wouldn't buy you much diesel.

Pappacharlie

Lights On wrote: »

70 cent?? That is taking the piss to be fair, you'd be better off telling the little one that Santa isn't real, would save you the hassle.

Why does the Air Mail rate not apply. Santa does live in the North Pole? Great value in my opinion.

kylith

We used to get a reply when I was little in the 80s and I don't remember ever putting a stamp on it. Santa used to say hi to everyone who'd written to him on the radio too.

The Randy Riverbeast

AnonoBoy wrote: »

TO THE BARGAINS ALERT THREAD!!!!

Bought 10, hope they fulfill the order. A price like that tends to be an error.

NachoBusiness

Seriously, be careful with the stamps as my nephew one year got totally different presents than he had asked santa for. Was all Rap CDs and stuff like that and he's only 7. We figured it out why in the end though as we had mistakenly put a stamp on it for him that was 50c.

DEFTLEFTHAND

We used to bring our letters from Claus into school to show the teacher. Suspicions were raised at the time, as everybody seemed to have the exact same reply.

AnonoBoy

ScumLord wrote: »

Aren't you lucky, we had no mineral deposits back in my day, we had to lure unsuspecting asteroids to the planet or there'd be no gold flakes in our goldschlager.

PLANET? You were lucky to have a planet.

We used to have to float in the void of space, holding our breath and hoping that we'd land somewhere with an atmosphere in time for us to 'ave our tea.

Into The Blue

AnonoBoy wrote: »

PLANET? You were lucky to have a planet.

We used to have to float in the void of space, holding our breath and hoping that we'd land somewhere with an atmosphere in time for us to 'ave our tea.

Land somewhere with an atmosphere? La de fookin da..

We were space dust, that had to form into an asteroid over billions of years before smashing into a planet..

Your Majesty.