Dead Letter Post Office- - sounds spooky, doesn’t it? A post office for the dead? It seems like something straight out of a ...

Ever wondered what happens to Santa’s post? Thousands of children write to Father Christmas every year. While Grinches and ...

The Postmaster-General has instructed postmasters to forward to the Dead Letter-office, except in special cases, all letters remaining unclaimed one month after being advertised, instead of two ...

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letters addressed to “Santa” or “The North Pole” would mostly go to the Dead Letter Office (DLO), as “they were written to someone who, spoiler alert, does not exist,” Pope said.

The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled "dead letter" investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender.