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Despite Corona: kids can write to Santa Claus
Even if some pre-Christmas things, such as visiting Christmas markets, are no longer available during the corona pandemic, children can also write to Saint Nicholas this year: “That will not change anything,” said the chairman of the Committee of the Festival of Saint Nicholas, Peter Gerecke, in Saarland. Saint Nicholas of the German Press Agency. Mail from thousands of children around the world is answered at the St. Nicholas Post Office and also by St. Nicholas volunteer helpers.
About 2,000 letters have already been received from children to St. Nicholas, said Sabine Gerecke, director of the children’s letter campaign at St. Nikolaus. The corona pandemic is also a theme in the letters: Some children asked him how Saint Nicholas was doing and wished him to stay healthy, he said. Others reported that it was not a great year because of Corona.
For more than 50 years, children have written “An den Nikolaus” in the small town of the municipality of Großrosseln, near the French border. According to Deutsche Post, it is the oldest St. Nicholas post office in Germany. The association between the festival committee and the post office has existed since 1967. There are seven Christmas post offices in Germany where children can send their letters to Santa Claus, Christkind or Nicholas.
The letter campaign for children officially begins in mid-November, the letters would be answered on December 6 on Saint Nicholas Day. In 2019, Nikolaus’ team responded to 26,568 letters from children from a total of 41 countries, more than ever.
In addition, the image of Nicholas de Saarland has been used as a machine stamp on more than a million letters from the Saarbrücken correspondence center around the world since this week. “This makes our place, our Nikolaus, known around the world,” said Peter Gerecke.
