Chicago Postal Workers Struggling To Answer All The Letters To Santa

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Dec 22, 2012 4:00PM

Have a little extra dough this holiday season? The Chicago post office has received 18,000 letters to Santa Claus and so far only 1,200 Chicagoans have volunteered to fulfill a local child's Christmas wishes. NBC Chicago reports that "those aspiring to help Santa can choose a letter from the facility, at 433 W. Harrison St., through Saturday."

This year is the 100th anniversary of Operation Santa. While kids have been sending letters through the post office for more than 100 years, in 1912 Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized postal employees and citizens to respond to letters.