Bring cheer to a deserving child this holiday season 12/4/2020 LOS ANGELES — Starting today, the USPSOperationSanta.com website is active and ready to welcome potential letter adopters to help make the holiday season special for hundreds of deserving kids and their families. This year, the holiday season is going to be more challenging than usual […]
We need your letters now! WASHINGTON, DC — Let’s face it, this year has been a struggle for so many people in more ways than one. Thoughts of kids, the holidays and wondering how to provide for them may also be weighing heavily on many. But take heart, Santa and the Postal Service are way […]
1/8/2020 Participation surged to record levels last year in a Postal Service program that helps employees and customers fulfill the holiday wishes of those less fortunate. Through Operation Santa, individuals and organizations “adopt” letters to Santa Claus from families in need and fulfill their requests, which often involve basic necessities like food and clothing. More […]
Santa Claus will get a helping hand from the Postal Service again this year. Operation Santa, the annual USPS program that allows employees and customers to aid families in need by “adopting” their letters to St. Nick and granting their holiday wishes, will run from Nov. 18-Dec. 20. The program will have a new website: […]
October 27, 2015 One of the workers charged in June with ripping off the postal service’s Operation Santa program to provide needy kids with Christmas gifts has been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail. Mahogany Strickland, 23, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty Friday to carrying letters […]
All three postal workers were hired in late 2013. More postal workers involved in the scam. Secret Santa’s allegedly suckered by three postal workers who gamed NYC’s Operation Santa Was NYC Santa conned? A Queens man was released on his own recognizance and another man and woman were released on $50,000 bond yesterday, after being […]
The Postal Service has kicked off this year’s Operation Santa program, the annual campaign that has helped fulfill the holiday wishes of children and their families for more than a century. Through Operation Santa, individuals, businesses and charitable organizations respond to children’s letters addressed to Santa Claus. “Operation Santa has made dreams come true for […]
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In 17 major US cities this week, the US Postal Service’s Operation Santa will begin offering the public letters to Santa written by low income children. Volunteers can “adopt” letters from needy kids asking Santa for “a warm coat,” “food or clothes,” or “shoes for my older brother,” and then […]