Santa gets more requests for necessities this Christmas

Friday, December 24, 2010
Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News

According to U.S. Postal Service workers, this year's batch of letters addressed to the North Pole contains millions of heartbreaking pleas from children who are wishing for a fat man in a red suit to deliver basic necessities like shoes and coats instead of new toys.

[Yahoo!] More than 20 post offices log these wish lists and ask the public to respond with toys and letters in a program called "Operation Santa," USA Today's Donna Leinwand reports. This year, unemployed parents and their kids in New York and Chicago are asking for boots and clothing they can't afford.

One 7-year-old wrote: "This year my moom don't have much money to spend on Christmas gifts so I'm writing to you. It would make us very happy if you and your elves would bring us toys and clothes."

One in four American children are supported by food stamps, and enrollment in the program has skyrocketed.

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