Santa Letter Details
We all love receiving mail - especially at
Christmas. And who better for your child to get a
letter from this year than Santa. What a surprise
for them to see that Santa has remembered their
name, how old they are and where they live and he
also knows what they want for Christmas.
For the eleventh year running we are offering
your children the opportunity to have their very own
personalised letter from Santa.
Santa Letter - Optional
Personal Message
It is the personalisation that makes the Santa
letter believable, and as well as all the
personalisation already mentioned above, you are
also able to insert your own personal message "from
Santa" into the letter. This is the
perfect way to mention something important that has
happened during the year. It may be winning
medals or trophies; bearing up well during an
illness; succeeding in
exams; being good at school or just being kind to
parents and siblings - in fact it can be anything
you want. But when you are filling out the
order form remember, it is Santa talking in the
letter
so please word it appropriately i.e. in the first
person. For instance enter on the form, "I
saw you playing for the Avon School football team
when you won the knockout trophy in May - well done
James", and NOT "James plays football and he
won a trophy in May". Press the button on
the right to see the wording the letters. Or
if you're not sure what you want to write take a
look at some of our
messages from customers
in previous years.
Santa Letter Chocolate coins
The quantity of chocolate coins that are included FREE
with the Santa Letter will weigh approximately 34g
(including foil wraps). They will be wrapped in
bubble wrap bags to protect them in transit. We
don't put warning labels on the packs so please make
sure you dispose of the bubble wrap before giving
chocolates to children. The same warning applies
to the foil wrapper around the chocolates - please
dispose of carefully.
Santa
Letter Signature
When you order the Santa Letter with chocolate
coins we will add an extra touch to it by signing it
personally. We won't use a rubber stamp, a printer
or a "Signature" computer font. Every
letter will be signed by a real person using a real pen
and real ink!!!
Santa Letters Despatch - Very Important
All letters from Santa are addressed personally and despatched
individually to the person whose details you give on the order form.
We will despatch all Letters from Santa within
24 hours. Alternatively, you can select a
date that you want it to be posted. This
means you can order early, safe in the knowledge
that the letter will be posted nearer to
Christmas. However, when choosing your own
date please, please, please remember:
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The date of despatch you request will be
the day it leaves our office.
Again - the date it leaves our office -
not the day it arrives at your
home.
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Every year we have a small handful of
people you believe that their Santa
Letter will arrive on their doorstep on
the date they have selected. When
the letter fails to arrive the customer
is naturally disappointed.
Given the incredibly low price we are
charging for the Santa Letter, we simply
cannot guarantee delivery on a specific
date.
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It
is suggested that if you want the Letter
from Santa to arrive during a certain
time frame you take into account the
inevitable delays in the mail system
during the Christmas period and request
an appropriate date of despatch.
Postage is free of charge for
orders despatched to UK addresses. We use
second class postage up to and including
Wednesday 1st December 2011 Thereafter we
use first class postage.
For orders despatched to addresses
outside the UK we charge the standard Royal Mail
Air Mail rate which can be found
here. (Please note - we do
not
ship to the USA or Canada)
We do not use postage stamps on
letters from Santa which incur a post mark from
the town from which they were posted. This
ruins the illusion that the letters originated
from the North Pole. Instead we use Royal
Mail's Smart Stamp which we have discovered is
more reliable and efficient than using a postage
stamp and does
not incur the dreaded local post
mark.
We display a logo and the words
"PRIORITY MAIL. PRIORITY MAIL.
PRIORITY MAIL. Posted at the North Pole.
To be delivered by postal company of destination
country". We then hand stamp this with a
North Pole postmark.
Although
the Royal Mail symbols still appear on the
envelope we leave it to parents to tell children
that all letters from Santa start at the North
Pole where they are sent out to all the
countries in the world. From there the
local carrier i.e. the Royal Mail delivers the
letters to the child's address.
At just
£4.95 for the Santa Letter with chocolate coins you
can make Christmas 2011 special for somebody special
this year..........
Or if you want your Santa Letter
immediately, why not download it now. That's
right, exactly the same content as the letter above
but without the chocolates and personalised
signature (obviously!!). Your Santa Letter is
fully personalised and instantly downloadable.
Save it to your hard drive and print it out whenever
you want.
Find out more
The Origins
of Santa Claus - or is it Father Christmas
It is
suspected that Santa Claus
is based on a real person –
the patron saint of children
who was Saint Nicholas.
Saint Nicholas was renowned
for his charitable work and
was a very popular saint,
particularly in the East.
Saint Nicholas lived from
270 to 210 AD and became the
Bishop of Byzantine Anatolia
– a town in Turkey. He was
renowned for his generosity
and could often be seen in
his red bishop’s clothes
giving sweets and gifts to
children. There are many
versions of the origin of
Santa Claus (Father
Christmas) so which one do
we believe. And when did the
Santa Letter
originate Well here we have
tried to investigate and
come with some answers.
In early times, many
churches were built in
honour of Saint Nicholas. In
the 11th century, he was
were enshrined in a church
in the Italian city of Bari.
It is told that the first
Crusaders visited Bari and
carried stories about
Nicholas to their homelands.
The anniversary of his
death, 6 December, became a
national holiday and a day
to exchange gifts.
Another origin of Santa
Claus is of course from
England. Here Santa Claus
is known as Father
Christmas. Father Christmas
can be traced back to an old
English festival usually
held in midwinter. As far
back as the 17th century
pictures of him survive
which show a rotund bearded
man dressed in a long,
green, fur-lined robe. The
red-clothed Father Christmas
didn’t make his appearance
until the 1870’s.
In Greece, Santa Claus
or Father Christmas is the
patron saint of sailors, in
France he was the patron of
lawyers, and in Belgium the
patron of children and
travellers. And what
about America. Well it is in
America that the Santa Claus
we now know really came
alive. It is believed the
American Santa Claus started
in Holland where Saint
Nicholas was known as
“Sinterklaas” which over
time developed into Santa
Claus. And when the Dutch
founded New Amsterdam (now
called New York), they took
the name and celebrations
with them.
As early as 1773 "St. A.
Claus" was mentioned in the
American press. In 1809,
Washington Irving (the
author of "Tales from Sleepy
Hollow") wrote about
Sinterklaas in his "A
History of New York." Irving
described Sinterklaas as a
rotund little man in a
typical Dutch costume, with
knee breeches and a
broad-brimmed hat, who
traveled on horseback on the
Eve of Saint Nicholas. In
1822, Clement Clark Moore, a
poet and professor of
theology, published the poem
"A Visit From St. Nicholas"
(also known as "The Night
Before Christmas").
He had a broad face
and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed,
like a bowl full of jelly,
He was chubby and plump, a
right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw
him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a
twist of his head
Soon gave me to know I had
nothing to dread.
Moore's Santa is a jolly old
elf who flies around in a
miniature sleigh with eight
tiny reindeer. Moore even
named the reindeer by the
names we know them today
which are Doner, Blitzen,
Cupid, Prancer, Dasher,
Dancer, Comet and Vixen –
and of course Rudolph of
whom many songs and rhymes
are written.
In the nineteen thirties an
advertising agent called
Haddon Sundblom created a
Santa as a fat human instead
of an elf, with a jolly face
and big beard in a Coca Cola
ad. And today, Sundblom's
Santa is the one that
children and grown ups
recognize around the world
and which can be seen on the
letter and covering envelope
of our
Santa Letter.
From then on the story of
Santa Claus or Father
Christmas continued to
develop. We know he has a
“naughty and nice” list.
Children write their letter
to Santa every Christmas
asking for toys and games.
Nowadays Santa writes back
to the children with a "Letter
from Santa" Children
who have been naughty get a
piece of coal from Santa
Claus and children who have
been good all year can
expect gifts galore. We know
Santa Claus has a Grotto
which was originally at the
North Pole but which has now
moved to Lapland. Letters
from Santa from this site
still bear the original
North Pole postmark. In his
Grotto his elves work hard
making toys for girls and
boys around the globe.
But on the other side of the
coin there has long been
opposition to teaching
children to believe in Santa
Claus. Not only can the
commercialisation of Santa
Claus and Christmas be
detrimental it also detracts
from the religious
background, traditional ways
and the underlying hope of
peace and goodwill at that
time of year. Indeed their
are those who believe that
the
Santa Letter offered
here is a sign of
commercialisation. We on the
other hand believe that it
is a "bit of fun" and in
keeping with our motto of
"Keeping the Dream Alive".
Others state that Santa
Claus is a lie, and that it
is wrong for parents to
teach their children to
believe in him. Perhaps that
is the same for the Tooth
Fairy too…….
Whatever the history, no
matter where you are in the
world we all hope you have a
very happy and peaceful
Christmas
French: JOYEUX NOEL
Spanish: FELIZ NAVIDAD
German: FROEHLICHE
WEIHNACTEN
Swedish: GOD JUL
Welsh: NADOILG LLAWEN
Japanese: KURISUMASU OMEDETO
Chinese (Cantonese): GUN TSO
SUN TAN’GUNG HAW SUN
Latin: NATALE HILARE ET
ANNUM FAUSTUM
Letter from Santa
with Chocolate Coins
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