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3,000 letters from Fort Worth sent to Santa, but he also accepts e-mails
Dec 25, 2008 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Some children burn their letters to Santa in the fireplace and let the smoke carry them to the North Pole.
Others write letters in school and ask their teachers to get them to Saint Nick.
And, yes, Santa accepts e-mail.
Of course, thousands of children trust the U.S. Postal Service with their Christmas wish list. Fort Worth postal workers handled at least 3,000 letters to Santa, all of which made it to the North Pole in plenty of time. Here's a look at what today's children want, or want to know, from the big man in the red suit. Because of privacy concerns, their names are excluded:
"Dear Santa, How do you travel all around the world in one night? Will you please answer me? Do you stay alive forever? Answer me on a piece of paper. PS. Get the paper from our office."
-- Mansfield
"Dear Santa, Here is what I want if it's not too much trouble: a Nintendo Wii, Controlled Spike the Dinosaur, V-Smile Motion, Laser Jam, Kidart Studio. Hope it's not too much trouble and hope you're not working too hard." -- Granbury
"Dear Santa, I want the Magnetix coaster and the Star Wars Republican fighter tank and the agents deep sea quest, and the castle troll warship, and the Nerf N-strike recon blaster, and the Nerf N-strike Vulcan blaster and a digital camera. I deserve these gifts because I earned 7 awards!! I've done all of my chores. I've taken all of my vitamins and I've stayed healthy the whole year, by eating broccoli!!!" -- Corinth
"Dear Santa, I can't wait for Christmas because I get to see my cousins, and I also want to make it a great Christmas for my mom and dad because I would like, if you could, to bring them a new Infiniti car. That would make it a great Christmas for me, my mom and dad, and probably Courtney. A white one would be great. Or black. But if you couldn't I would totally understand. And what would make me happy is if I got a cell phone. My mom and dad don't believe me that everyone at school has one." -- Keller
"Dear Santa, Thanks for the letter, it really surprised us. We were not expecting it. For Christmas I forgot one item that probably you can not get me. It is a Snow Machine where you can control when and where it snows, but that is likely not possible. What did one of the elves mean when they said to leave lots of extra room? Believe-O-Meter: A lot, Yes, Not Really. (Me=A lot!)" -- Fort Worth
"Dear Santa, I want a Palm Centro but it has to be from AT&T and a Palm Centro blue leather flipcase and a magnet flipper case and a Palm Centro desktop cradle and a Palm universal wireless keyboard."
-- Mansfield
MELODY McDONALD, 817-390-7386
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