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Anticipating Santa, Part 1: Santa Freaks

Posted by Jeff in Christmas Online

Early in the morning of every December 24th the major mass media starts to wonder about Santa Claus. But true believers in Santa actually track his activities year round.

True believers know, for example, that Santa hardly ever spends much time at the North Pole during the off-season. In fact, we have it on good authority that Santa actually holds an Elf Convention every October.

Why October?

The Big Guy won’t say. But we find it no coincidence that right after this big event is held the interest in Santa and Christmas starts to build up. And so does the anticipation.

For more than 17 years they’ve been processing mail for Santa online over at My Merry Christmas. They report MORE letters for Santa during the months of October and November than they do in December.

Interesting, isn’t it? Who are these people? And why the urge to write Santa months and weeks ahead of the holiday season?

With all of these questions the folks at My Merry Christmas made us an interesting offer: why don’t we just interview the main mail elf at the north pole as these letters come in? They set it up for us and this is exactly what we will do in the weeks ahead.

Who are these Santa freaks and what do they want of him? Stay tuned.