Children writing to Santa Claus in Finland may not get any response this year, or if they get one, it could only be in English.
Half a million people, presumably mainly children, wrote to Santa Claus in Finland last year, and those giving a complete, clear return address were supposed to have received a printed response telling about Finland and its Lapland area where Santa Claus supposedly lives.
Due to savings measures at the decade-old Santa Claus postal office, only "a few thousand" responses will be sent this year and these will be written in English only, Xinhua news agency cited Ulla Seppala, director of consumer letters at the postal service, as telling Finnish magazine Seura.
However, she assured that all letters would be opened this year even though a response might not be sent.
The response from Santa Claus has been written in numerous languages, but this year children worldwide will receive English letters only.
Director Seppala was quoted by Seura as saying that "filing the application was also a cumbersome process". She was not willing to specify the size of the savings the postal service will make by reducing operations.
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