{"id":347500,"date":"2026-09-15T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347500\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:16:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-tis-the-season-children-can-start-sending-letters-to-santa-as-usps-opens-annual-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347500\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Tis The Season Children Can Start Sending Letters To Santa As Usps Opens Annual Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Christmas may be months away, but it is never too early to give Santa a head start on holiday wishes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The United States Postal Service has started its Operation Santa program, accepting letters to the North Pole through Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is the 114th year of the program, which aims to help children and families nationwide receive holiday gifts.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Operation Santa also offers letter adoption. Adopters can sign up beginning Nov. 2 to help fulfill wishes in letters sent to Santa. They can choose a favorite letter and help fulfill the wish by purchasing and shipping a gift by Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To send a letter or sign up to adopt one, visit <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoperationsanta.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uspsoperationsanta.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas may be months away, but it is never too early to give Santa a head start on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-347500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}