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Himmelpfort (dpa) - Children from all over the world have sent more wish lists to Santa Claus than ever before in Himmelpfort, Brandenburg.
Company spokeswoman Anke Blenn reported on Thursday that the Deutsche Post Christmas post office north of Berlin had received a record number of 320,000 letters in the Corona year.
In the previous year there were 294,000 and in 2014, when the branch celebrated its 30th anniversary, 312,000 wish lists.
With 21,000 letters from 62 countries, the number of submissions from children from abroad is also higher this year than usual. Last year it was 14,500.
"In view of the corona restrictions, many children and their parents have obviously rediscovered writing letters in order to contact Santa Claus in a very personal way, to paint or do handicrafts for him," said Blenn.
“In addition to the classics such as dolls, dinosaurs, police and fire engines, board games or, for the elderly, smartphones and tablets, many children would like their families to be healthy in 2020 and that“ Corona will go away ””.
Some children had also thought about whether Santa Claus could come to Christmas Eve because of the corona restrictions, Blenn reported.
Little Nina had therefore written that Santa Claus should please send her the long-awaited roller skates by post if he could not come by himself.
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According to Deutsche Post, the story of the Christmas post office began in 1984. Two children from Berlin and Saxony sent letters to Santa Claus in Himmelpfort.
A postal worker answered them - and in the following year 75 letters arrived.
In 1995, Swiss Post hired additional women for the first time to answer the mountains of letters.
Himmelpfort Christmas post office