Letters to Santa

Cheat! by Sony Music

Dec 20, 202236:36Society & Culture

In the 1910s, the New York City Post Office was having trouble delivering children's letters addressed to Santa Claus. So every Christmas, thousands of letters went unanswered. Then in 1913, an charming businessman named...

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