lol

LOL well I this has brightened kids Christmas, good going over reacting peons!

Chances of predatory paedophile finding an address and deciding mmmm this child sounds delicious I shall go and rape. Very close to zero.

vs

Making a child happy upon receiving a message from Santa. Very close to 100%

Well, obviously they picked the correct option!

Pathetic...

This just shows how sad our world is becoming

The future

Soon school registers will have childrens names in code for the fear of pervs.

If it gives the impression of saving just one child...

It'll be worth destroying the childhoods of every other wide-eyed kid that writes to Santa each year.

Nice going, fucktards.

Sad jobsworths

So it was impossible for the letters to be double checked before being sent out?

Sad..

This is just so sad, and so now aswell as not being able to go and see Santa you can't send him a letter, which is the most magical thing about Christmas in my opinion - getting that letter back from actual Santa.

The comment 'in different times' - yup we live in paranoid times where nobody is to be trusted as we now cannot write and receive a letter from someone we will never meet.

on the other hand....

... parents not willing to take the risk could just tell their kids they will post it for them and do the reply themselves... those willing to accept the minute chance of have little johnny fiddled with, use the non-anonymous service that has been provided since the 1950's.

And the guy quoted saying "we live in different times"... no, we really don't, you just think you do - pedo's arn't a creation of the 00's, they were here long before then, as was privacy intrusion, the difference is that the people who ran it and those who used it, were all willing to give out or use this information to perpetuate a lie for the kids. Don't blame the times just because you're scared of being bum-raped by lawyers! :)

I've always had my doubts about Santa

He creeps down the chimney and, presumably because he only comes once a year, he fills your stocking. I'm grabbing my coat and heading on down to child services

Fucking Unbelieveable

The fucking self righteous twats, one sex offender closes it down? He was stopped from working! No need to do all that bollocks.

It doesn't even say he was a paedophile, he was probably just caught pissing in public.

The North Pole is not in Alaska!

You can still send your letter to Santa at his real address:

Santa Claus

North Pole

Canada

H0H 0H0

Not sure if his Canada Post elves will respond to letters from foreigners.

rofl

oh noes! a child's address has been compromised! ... .... .... could one just not ... walk down a street, find a house with a christmas tree "santa please stop here" sign and have about 75% (taking grandparents into account, who inevitably have to play along and do this) chance of a child living in the house. the more effort put into the display the younger the child.

Knowing what the child wants and address gains no favours for the peado, every child will evidently want a pony/playstation/most-over-marketed-sex-appropriate-toy-on-tv.

Misleading Article

"The US Postal Service has pulled the plug on a Santa Claus letter service which has run since 1954."

not the same as

"So the Operation Santa Program will still work, but those letters with the North Pole mark won't be handled by volunteers in the town."

but of course all the previous commenters read only the first two paragraphs and go straight to bitching and moaning about how our liberties are being infringed and Christmas is ruined forever. The only actual difference is that one town has decided that their postal workers can't keep up with the concept of a reference to an address being replaced with an address. Not newsworthy and certainly not worth reacting like a Faily Express reader about it.

To quote Andy T Weir

Santa is, in a way, a religion. A faith-based "god" that is all-knowing and watches you. Culture after culture has come up with the same concept. "Be good, because a great and powerful being is watching you, even when no mortal is, and there will be a reckoning."

At a young age, you get told it was all a lie. Isn't that messed up? At age 6 or so, you discover that something you took to be true was not only a lie, but a carefully maintained conspiracy perpetrated upon you by the entire adult world. Millions are involved in the conspiracy, as are major corporations and the press.

And people wonder why the youth of America are cynical.

-Andy T Weir

Who cares?

I dont, maybe the day will come when we stop filling kids heads with nonsense

It was undoubtedly god's punishment

for putting the north pole in Alaska.

Save Santa

If it instills a positive ethos and morality seperate from anything provided by any church then we should be all for it.

re: rofl

"75% (taking grandparents into account, who inevitably have to play along and do this) chance of a child living in the house. the more effort put into the display the younger the child."

That's a pretty sick inverse proportion you've just suggested, but I applaud the mathematics. It's y=10/x where x is the effort from 1-10 giving y the age of the child.

@ AC - doubts about Santa

Damn right! Plus, he's clearly a peeping tom who "sees you while you're sleeping".

He'll give you a present, though - if you're "nice" to him...

spookily

My son recieved his first santa letter this week, I'm in the UK... the letter was addressed to him, and it didn't say who it had came from or where from - just Santa.

A quick google search, and it's turned out it was an NSPCC service... evidently it must have been a friend that gave our sons details to them for this free santa letter.. I think.

He's 7 months old... having I think I prefer the US child-opts-in version than the completely anonymous "we know you have a child, now try to figure out who we are and who else knew!" system the nspcc seem to be running! lol

Not being a daily mail reader - I'm sure my son is safe... for the minute.