It doesn’t tak a Grinch to steal Christmas this year. The United States Post Office beat him to the punch. In fact, it seems the USPS is throwing Santa out with the sex offender this year.
Postal Service officials said they are tightening rules in such programs nationwide after a postal worker in Maryland recognized a volunteer in the agency’s Operation Santa program as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child’s letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to make changes to the program.
Because of the Maryland scare, the USPS has decided that the small town in Alaska named North Pole will no longer be answering kids’ letters to Santa this year. The program started in 1954. Needless to say sex offenders do not need access to childrens’ names and addresses and probably don’t need to be corresponding with kids in the name of Santa Claus.
Rather than do a better background check the USPS has decided that it will end the program. Of course, only a few years ago postal workers were instructed to say, “Happy Holidays” in lieu of “Merry Christmas.” Political correctness has been carried to the extreme.
Perhaps, the latest closure of the North Pole Santa letter program is an indication that those in control of snail mail really are as inept as many of us have suspected. Most companies who run into such flagrant ineptitude try to rebuild their companies, starting at the top.
Well, our bet is that the USPS will find a lump of coal in its Christmas stocking.
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