As a strike by Canada Put up workers continues, TheMuseum in Kitchener is taking steps to make sure kids’s want lists make their method to Santa Claus within the North Pole.
TheMuseum has introduced will probably be accepting letters to Santa Claus till Dec. 22.
“After I noticed that Canada Put up wasn’t capable of proceed this 40-year custom, it simply occurred to me we have to do this,” TheMuseum’s CEO David Marskell informed .
“So, [it’s] simply actually wanting kids to have the ability to share their needs and desires with Santa Claus.”
Round 55,000 Canada Put up employees have been on strike since Nov. 15, shutting down the Crown company simply forward of the busiest time of yr for mail deliveries. Since then, negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Staff (CUPW) have continued.
Round 55,000 Canada Put up employees have been on strike since Nov. 15. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)
Kids bringing letters in individual will obtain free admission for a day, or a coupon for a future go to to TheMuseum, Marskell mentioned.
Canada Put up hopes operations can resume rapidly
Canada Put up says it helped Santa by delivering responses to 1.4 million letters from around the globe final yr and it hopes to do the identical this yr.
Phil Rogers, a spokesperson for the company, mentioned Canada Put up normally begins to obtain letters for Santa in mid- to late November.
“It’s our hope that postal operations can resume as rapidly as attainable at this vital time for purchasers. When operations do resume, we’ll assist Santa by delivering a response to each letter despatched to him this yr,” Rogers wrote in an e-mail to .
Canada Put up has been serving to Santa together with his mail for greater than 40 years, dealing with between 1.2 million to 1.5 million letters every year. Rogers mentioned it is a massive effort and a terrific supply of satisfaction for everybody at Canada Put up.
For folks dropping off letters at TheMuseum, stamps will not be required inside Canada and kids ought to embrace their return tackle. All letters from one household needs to be in the identical envelope, Marskell mentioned.
He mentioned a response by Santa earlier than Christmas will rely upon the size of the Canada Put up strike however households are urged to deliver letters earlier than Dec. 8.
