The letter with the Father Christmas is a tradition consisting in for the young children writing a letter with the Father Christmas; this habit is carried out some time before Christmas and makes it possible to the parents to know what the children wish. This tradition was born in France with popularization from the Father Christmas in second half of the 20th century. It is followed in the families which make accept their children in the existence of the Father Christmas.

There was a commercial recovery of this famous letter via the Minitel and the special issues at raised cost.

In the families where the Father Christmas is an important character, the letters with the Father Christmas take part in the course of the family life around the festivals of Christmas.

In Canada

For the Canadians, the Father Christmas remains with the following address:

Father Noël
Pole Nord
H0H 0:0
Canada

Write to him little time before Christmas, he will answer you.

(Makes some, it will be the Canadian Société of the stations which will take care some. More than 13000 voluntary employees of SCP, helped by interpreters, add a small personal note to the preprinted letter which they send, in order to answer more than one million letters which are sent annually at this address.)

In France

Since 1962, in December, La Poste Frenchwoman replies to the letters addressed to the Father Christmas (whatever the registered address). This mail is opened by the customer service mail of Libourne, only authorized with that, to find the address of the shipper and to send a reply-card free to him. The first reply-card was illustrated by Rene Chag and comprised a text written by Francoise Dolto, psychoanalyst and sister of the Minister for the postal and telecommunications authorities of the time.

In 2003, La Poste thus sent 1.259.000 answers. The Father Christmas also received nearly 122.000 emails (via Internet site of the Post office).

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