Here are guidelines to write Santa Claus or to participate in the Post Office’s longstanding Operation Santa program.

There's a separate program for parents to write their own reply letters from Santa and get them mailed back to their kids with a North Pole postmark.

Operation Santa is open and is accepting letters for Christmas 2024.

Some children are imploring Santa to make the coronavirus go away. Others are asking for masks for Christmas.

Your kids may be among the countless children who write letters to Santa every year, but how many of those children can say Santa wrote back?

Letters addressed to Santa Claus pile up at the Post Office department of Consumer Affairs in Valencia, Calif, Dec. 18, 1996. (AP Photo/Susan Sterner) ...

Starting on Nov. 18, the letters will be available online for anyone to read and hopefully grant the wishes contained in them. To adopt a letter, you create an account on the Operation Santa website.

Your kids may be among the countless children who write letters to Santa every year, but how many of those children can say Santa wrote back? There are many ways to bring the magic of Christmas to ...

Letters addressed to Santa Claus pile up at the Post Office department of Consumer Affairs in Valencia, Calif, Dec. 18, 1996. (AP Photo/Susan Sterner) ...