Christmas is pardoned!

I'm so relieved!

An Alaska senator says the U.S. Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office.

Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Deputy Postmaster General Pat Donahoe told her in a phone call the agency has reconsidered its decision to not allow volunteers to answer the letters.

Calls to the Postal Service were not immediately returned. (1-800-dicklesswusses was disconnected)

I really think this is for the good of the people

"Santa Claus" holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to "Santa Claus, North Pole" will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town as has been done for years.

Yup. Protecting YOU!

To give them a LITTLE TEENY amount of credit, they blame this on protecting the children from volunteer Santas that are sex offenders and MIGHT CONTACT A CHILD! Here's an idea: Screen for sex offenders!

Up next: No more eggs sold at Easter. Citing high cholesterol levels in test monkeys, there will be a ban starting two weeks before Happy Friday (previously know as "Good" Friday).