Postal Service to Cut Santa's Mail Service?

Dateline North Pole, Alaska:

A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid Interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon.

The group is looking to counter a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to discontinue a 55-year-old program of volunteers in the Interior town responding to thousands of letters each year addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" each year.

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The Postal Service imposed strict new rules for how Operation Santa works after security issues arose in a similar program in Maryland last year. Those new rules are what knocked North Pole out of the program.

Gaborik believes his town's name gives Santa letters more cachet than other destinations.

"The city was founded on the Christmas theme," he said Thursday. "This is our identity. This is North Pole, Alaska."

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