Santa Swears: REAL kids get naughty letters from Santa

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Can you beleive this? What's next? The debate: who is responsible Canada Post or just the sicko who did this?

Bad Santa spoils Canada Post Christmas program

Current and retired postal workers volunteer servicesRichard Starnes, CanWest News Service  Published: Friday, December 14, 2007CanWest News ServiceBad Santa spoils Canada Post's ChristmasOTTAWA -- Canada Post has temporarily shut down its Write To Santa program across Ottawa as police investigate the sending of obscene messages to some houses in the city."Everybody here is so shocked," Canada Post spokeswoman Cindy Daoust said yesterday.According to Canada Post's Web site, more than 11,000 current and retired Canada Post employees ensure that every child's letter -- with a return address -- gets an answer to letters sent to Santa Claus at the North Pole."Disappointed doesn't begin to describe how we feel," Ms. Daoust said. Rosalyn Da Costa was stunned after receiving two of the at least 10 obscene letters that have been sent. When she collected the mail at her home yesterday morning, she was thrilled to see Santa had answered letters from two-year-old Maya and 10-year-old Colton. "My first thought was to wait until Colton got home from school so he could sit and read them with her," she said. "I told Maya: 'There's a letter from Santa just for you, let's read it'. We sat down on the couch, I opened the letter and began to read. My mouth dropped open. Oh, My God!" Each Santa letter Canada Post delivers contains the same main message with a hand-written personal post-script. Maya's personal P.S. said: "This letter is too long, you dumb s---." "I went straight to Google, got the Canada Post number and called," said Ms. Da Costa. "A very nice lady at a call centre in Fredericton, N.B. was shocked and when I told her I also had a letter for Colton and was planning to let him read it when he got home, she said I should open it now just in case." Ms. Da Costa went downstairs, picked up the letter and returned to the phone. What she read had both ladies gasping. "Oh! My God, Oh! My God," they kept repeating. The personal P.S. to Colton's letter read: "Your mom s---- d---- and your Dad is gay." This brought a Canada Post supervisor to the phone. "He said: 'That's like dirt in my mouth. I can't even say it'." Ms. Da Costa decided to phone the media. "My warning to everyone is: 'Open your childrens' letters first'." That will not be necessary for a few days in Ottawa because Canada Post has put out an alert for letter carriers to not deliver any Santa letters, to intercept any others in the system and to send them back. "We will check every one," said Canada Post's Ms. Daoust."And we will make sure we have enough volunteers to send out new messages from Santa."At present, the program will continue as it has for the past 26 years across the remainder of Canada and around the world. But Ms. Daoust promises a close look at the system in the future. In 1999, an Oshawa seven-year-old receive a Santa message from Canada Post that called him "one greedy little boy!" But the latest incidents are far more inappropriate and the first incident of their kind in the program's history, according to Canada Post President and CEO Moya Green."We deeply apologize to any families affected by this... We are shocked and heartbroken," she said.
CanWest News Service