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Santa's post office opens in Himmelpfort

Published: 10 Nov 08 08:33 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20081110-15417.html

Germany’s most beloved Christmas post office opened on Monday in Himmelpfort in anticipation of receiving thousands of letters from hopeful children to Santa Claus this year, Deutsche Post reported.

Town officials, including Father Christmas himself, were on hand to celebrate the opening some six weeks before Christmas Day. Last year the post office received – and answered – some 280,000 letters to Santa Claus from children in more than 80 countries. The office in the German state of Brandenburg is the one of seven in the country, but the only holiday post office in the formerly communist eastern states.

The town name, Himmelpfort, means "heaven's gate."

Letters from the naughty and nice to St. Nick, or the Weihnachtsmann as he's known in Germany, can be addressed to:

Weihnachtsmann
Weihnachtspostfiliale
16798 Himmelpfort
Germany

DDP/The Local (news@thelocal.de)


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