Letters to Santa/Father Christmas

[PinkJam]

I wondered what people do for this?

Do you send a reply from Santa yourself?

Use the Royal Mail one?

Or do you do a charity one, and if so, which?

[Mindymomo]

I wouldn’t be using Royal Mail this year, they are going to be really, really busy. I would post my own reply through letterbox.

[happylittlechick]

I've used Royal Mail in previous years. It's quite good.

[superstar84]

The nspcc do great letters online, no set charge but suggested donation is £5

We've had them for years and they've always been fantastic

[SueEllenMishke]

We use the NSPCC one. They're great

[PinkJam]

I’ve not used the NSPCC one before, going to have a look now.

[OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea]

My kids have never had a reply! They send them up the chimney. There was once a panic when dh got the kids to do them and sent them up (burned them) while I was at work but had neglected to read them first so had no idea what was on them!

[thelegohooverer]

@OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea did you have to break the news to him that FC isn’t real?

We’ve never had a reply either, except ds’ first year when I wrote one in the style of Tolkien and dh vetoed pretentious literary allusions when it came to Christmas. He was probably right but ...sigh.

[LockdownLove]

My boys are too old now but I would write them each a letter in my special “once a year Father Christmas” handwriting. It always mentioned a couple of good things they had done during the year .

And explained why he could not deliver when impossible presents were requested - “a pet monkey and the ability to fly” had to be covered one year.

I have kept the letters

[Scanner20]

NSPCC every year.. they do good letters and many designs

[JinglesWish]

I ordered a letter from a lady on Etsy. It’s beautiful. Her shop is Lunar Handwriting. I did think about trying to do it myself, but I’d spend a lot of the bits (nice paper and I wanted a wax seal) and it wouldn’t look as nice 😆

[HotToCold]

Iv used NSPCC .... But this is one i saw today

[WeeM]

I’ve used the nspcc one a few times and it’s great. I used the Royal Mail one last year and panic was setting in as no reply was forthcoming! So I probably wouldn’t do that again. Off to look up that Etsy one though, it sounds lovely.

[HotToCold]

Saw this and thought it was lovely