According to the Associated Press (via NPR News), North Pole volunteers who ghostwrite letters to children for Santa Claus have proposed an alternative to the Postal Service's prohibitively expensive new security policy, in hopes of saving the town's beloved holiday program. The volunteers propose giving North Pole's Operation Santa organization its own, specific address to which children would send letters, instead of the generic address used now. That way, say the volunteers, the organization could run its own program, effectively bypassing the Postal Service's new security policy. All three members of Alaska's congressional delegation stopped thinking about things like climate change, Alaska's nascent natural gas pipeline and national health care reform long enough to send letters to the U.S. Postmaster General expressing their concerns over the changes. Read more here.
North Pole strikes back
