Up until the end of December, an experienced Swiss Post team will do all they can to reply to every child with a present and a story. Last year, Santa Claus received around 18,000 letters from children from all over Switzerland and abroad. The festive season is approaching and children are already full of anticipation.
This year, Swiss Post is again helping to ensure that their Christmas wishes sent by mail receive a reply. It forwards all letters addressed to Santa Claus to the five Swiss Post employees at the Christmas branch in Chiasso.
This means that even those children’s letters with the most imaginative addresses – "Père Noël, aux Rochers du Naye", "Christkind und Nikolaus, Himmelspforte 24, 2412 Im Wald" or "Gesù Bambino, Via delle stelle, Paradiso" – get to the Swiss branch of the main Santa Claus post office in Finland’s Rovaniemi. For more than 60 years, such letters, which are considered to be "undeliverable" in postal terms, have been forwarded to Santa’s team after being sorted by language, rather than being returned stating "recipient unknown".
Every sender receives a reply and a small present – as long as they have provided their address.
Swiss Post’s Christmas team replies to nearly all letters
Last year, Santa’s helpers received 18,386 children’s letters and drawings with wishes for presents or greetings to Santa Claus.
Source: Swiss Post
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