Canada Post announces that it has waived the deadline for its Letters to Santa program due to the national strike that disrupted mail delivery in the run-up to the holidays.
Posted at 11:57 a.m.
The approximately 55,000 postal workers walked off the job more than two weeks ago, thereby also suspending a program that allows up to 1.5 million letters from young Canadians to be delivered to the North Pole each year.
The Crown corporation said in a statement Tuesday that while the deadline to send a letter to Santa with the iconic postal code H0H 0H0 was usually Dec. 6, that deadline has now been removed from its website.
Canada Post said that once operations resume, it will ensure that all letters reach the North Pole and are answered, although it has not guaranteed delivery dates.
The Crown corporation says that since the program began more than 40 years ago, Santa’s North Pole Post Office has responded to more than 45 million letters.
During the strike, some communities stepped up to deliver Santa’s mail themselves, offering their own local programming on social media to ensure letter writers received a response before Christmas.
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