As most kids – and parents – know, it’s never too early to get going on that Christmas list. Just because it’s not even Thanksgiving yet doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be perfecting that list so nothing goes wrong on the Big Day.
One of the biggest questions kids ask is: How can I get my letter to Santa? After all, sending mail to the North Pole can be a logistical nightmare, especially if you’re 4 years old.
Luckily, Concord Parks and Recreation has just the thing: a special mailbox that goes straight to the big man.
All you have to do is bring your letter to the Heights Community Center (14 Canterbury Road) and drop it off at the special red mailbox in the main office. Make sure you include $5 for postage (it’s a long way to the North Pole) and a name and valid return address.
This part is important, because if you don’t have the postage and a return address, Santa can’t write back to you. What a bummer.
If everything is good to go, Santa will reply with a pack of reindeer landing dust and a recipe for Mrs. Claus’s famous sugar cookies. That alone is priceless, so the whole thing is quite a deal.
If your child is having a hard time with the letter, there are fill-in-the-blank forms you can pick up at the community center office to help get the process going.
Due to the anticipated high volume of letters, everything has to be in by Dec. 9 to give Santa and the elves enough time to read and respond to all the letters – and get them back to you in time for Christmas.
But Parks and Rec isn’t the only place accepting letters to Santa. The Monitor and Insider are also just about ready to start accepting letters, too, so don’t forget about us!
The Monitor will run about six ads over the course of December giving all of the instructions, so keep an eye out. Once all of the letters are in, we’ll print them all in the paper, assuming there’s enough space.
