Canada Post announced on Wednesday that children will not receive letters from Santa Claus this year as a result of a month-long union strike that disrupted the postal office’s operations and its decades-long Santa letter program.
For more than 40 years, Canada Post, the nation’s main postal operator, has run an initiative that allows children from Canada and all over the world to write and send letters to Santa Claus with their wishes for presents for themselves and others using a special postal code in the “North Pole.” Thousands of volunteers at Canada Post help respond to the children’s letters every year in English or in whichever language a child’s letter was written, including braille.
Canada Post announced on Wednesday that the decades-long tradition will be halted as a result of a month-long strike by 55,000 postal workers affiliated with the Canadian…
