Letter from Santa only £2.95 post free

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 ninth year running we are offering your children the opportunity to have their very own personalized letter from Santa.

As well as all the personalisation already mentioned above, you are also able to insert your own personal message "from Santa" into the letter.  We believe we are the only company to offer this service free of charge.  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 red button to see the text of a sample letter.  

This year though we have some special "extras" for Christmas 2008

Every letter personally signed by Santa.  We won't use a printer or a "Signature" computer font.  Every letter will be signed by a real person using a real pen and real ink!!!

Following our long running success of the letters from Santa for children, this year we can present appropriately worded letters from Santa for Babies, Baby's first Christmas and for grown ups too.  (And don't forget the personalised message from Santa described above.  When ordering a grown up letter it can be as personal, caring, loving or saucy as you want.  Perfect for husbands, wives, grandparents, partners, lovers, friends or even the boss - you are only restricted by your imagination!!!!)

All letters from Santa are addressed personally to an address of your choice.  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. 

This year we are  using Royal Mail's Smart Stamp which we have discovered is more reliable and efficient than using a postage stamp.  We will also produce a logo showing Santa in his sleigh 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.  

All letters are despatched within 48 hours of receipt of payment.  (This is free of charge for orders despatched to UK addresses.  For orders despatched to addresses outside the UK we charge the standard Royal Mail Air Mail rate).  Alternatively, you can have yours despatched on a date of your choice.  However, when choosing your own date please remember:

• 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.  If you want the Letter from Santa to arrive during a certain period, it is suggested you take into account the usual delays in the mail system during the Christmas period and request for an appropriate date of despatch.  We cannot guarantee delivery on a specific date.

• Please do not choose a date after the Royal Mail's the last day of posting items to arrive in time for Christmas!!

The following credit and debit cards are accepted and we use the reputable services of WorldPay to carry out transactions.  Payment for goods using PAYPAL is also accepted.
Cheques and postal orders drawn on a UK bank are welcomed but we would ask that the Order ID is written on the rear. Cheques should be made payable to 'Yours Personally' and forwarded to:
Yours Personally, 76 Chapel Street, Long Lawford, RUGBY, CV23 9BE
Telephone enquires can be made on 01788 544904 or email us at
request @ yourspersonally.co.uk

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Christmas History

Traditionally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled man in a red suit trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard. On Christmas eve, he rides in his flying sleigh, pulled by reindeer from house to house to give presents to children. During the rest of the year he lives at the North Pole, in Finnish Lapland, or Dalecarlia in Sweden together with his wife, Mrs. Claus. The names of his reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. Rudolph, 'the red-nosed reindeer', has featured in many modern aspects of the Santa Claus myth.

Origins
The modern Santa Claus is a composite character made up from the merging of two quite separate figures. The first of these is Saint Nicholas of Myra, a bishop of Byzantine Anatolia, now in modern day Turkey famous for his generous gifts to the poor. The second character is Father Christmas, which remains the British name for Santa Claus. Father Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him survive from that era, portraying him as a well-nourished bearded man dressed in a long, green, fur-lined robe.

The Evolution
When the Dutch still owned the land that later became New York, they brought the Saint Nicholas' eve legend as Sinterklaas with them to the Americas, but without the red mantle and other symbols. Sinterklaas was Americanized to "Santa Claus" but lost his bishop's apparel and was at first pictured as a thick bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat.

Santa Claus appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card. His horse was converted to reindeers and a sleigh, the black peters were converted to elves, and, in an attempt to move the origin of the festivities away from their pagan background to a more Christian one, the date was moved forward a few weeks to the celebrated day of the birth of Jesus: Christmas.   Acknowledgement to www.ChristmasDay.org