By KATY MANTYK
Epoch Times Staff
NEW YORK—Santa made an early trip to the Big Apple on Dec. 2 to join post office officials, first grade students from Manhattan’s P.S 19, and the choir from Preston High School in the lobby of the Main Post Office on 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue, to launch Operation Santa Claus.
Each year, letters written by children and adults to Santa Claus are made available at the New York Main Post Office to members of the public who are willing to give the gifts in Santa's name. Many letters are written by underprivileged children and families who, for economic reasons, face a bleak Christmas.
New York’s Operation Santa Claus is the largest of its type in the country, receiving approximately 500,000 letters ever year.
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