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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 23:06:40 EST
- From: David Leibold <DLEIBOLD@VM1.YorkU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Santa Claus Conquers the Fax Machine
- Message-ID: <telecom12.907.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 907, Message 11 of 11
- Lines: 31
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- A Reuters report notes that a new fax line to Santa Claus was swamped
- with thousands of calls for gift wishes. The line was set up in North
- Pole, Alaska (formerly Moose Crossing), the self-declared home of
- Santa Claus for many years.
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- The fax number is +1 907 488.4646 (that is, 488.HOHO).
-
- Perhaps Floyd Davidson is still on the Digest; wonder how Alascom is
- taking all of this?
-
-
- dleibold@vm1.yorku.ca
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: This is a good time to mention a charity effort I
- strongly support each year: The Chicago Main Post Office receives
- literally thousands of letters each year addressed to Santa Claus;
- they are typically from the children of impoverished families living
- in ghetto areas of our city. Chances are likely the post office in
- your community also receives these. The Chicago PO will give the
- letters in any quantity desired to anyone who agrees to at least try
- and fill the requests on an anonymous basis. They are sorted by the
- size of the family and number of children. Some of the kids write
- Santa to tell him they have been good all year and hope he will
- remember them. Others ask Santa 'not to worry about them, but be sure
- little brother or little sister gets something ...' I think everyone
- knows what I am leading up to ... ask at your post office for Santa
- Claus letters in whatever quantity you can deal with; I take a few
- every year, and perhaps you will feel led to do so also. Thanks. PAT
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