If you write a letter to Santa this year, don’t expect one back with a North Pole cancellation stamp.

The USPS has added stricter guidelines to it’s “Letters to Santa” program after a registered sex-offender was found volunteering for the program in Maryland. Under fear that pedophiles will volunteer to write dirty letters to children the post office now requires participating locations to encrypt the child’s last name and address on all letters.

Unfortunately the tiny post office in North Pole, AK will not be able to comply with these strict new regulations and has effectively dropped out of the program.

So now if your kid writes a letter to Santa it will probably have a postmark from Sheboygan.

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