Calgary website lets children send digital wish-lists to Santa

By News Staff

Posted December 3, 2012 7:48 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Christmas is coming and today’s children may not want to bother writing a letter to Santa the usual way.

A Calgary, Alta.-based website — emailsanta.com — offers tech-savvy children to write directly to Mr. Claus online.

The head elf lives in Calgary and began the website during a Canadian postal strike in 1996.

Santa started out answering 100,000 messages in the first year, and now deals with more than one-million.

The website also has a “naughty or nice” list and a Christmas countdown clock.

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