Maybe they didn’t have a forever stamp…

By By Leada Gore, Editor
Before I begin, let me say I love the people who work for the postal service. My uncle is a postmaster in Georgia. I depend on the postal service to deliver my newspaper each week. I like receiving mail, well most of the time. They could keep a bill or two every now and then.
Still, like all of us, the postal service does make mistakes from time to time. We’ve all had letters lost or delayed and occasionally, our newspapers get left on a dock and not delivered. Thankfully, those mistakes are rare.
However, I couldn’t help but chuckle when the package was plopped down on my desk this week. It was a bundle of five letters, all addressed in scrawling hand. The address read: “To Santa, North Pole.”
Santa? In the summer? There must be a mistake.
First of all, let me explain the Santa connection. Since Santa is so busy in December, newspapers around the country give him a helping hand and print some of the letters sent to him. The post office workers know this, so they often direct mail addressed only to “North Pole” to us. For some reason, these letters apparently took a long route and didn’t end up in our mailbox until June.
Now, I’m sure these children had their Christmas wishes fulfilled. Santa has a pretty complex system for finding this stuff out. He learned a long time ago you couldn’t just depend on the postal service, especially with the increasing cost of stamps. But I was concerned these children may have expected to see their letters in the newspaper and were disappointed. So, to make everything right, here we go, Santa: