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The post office has been inundated with around 12,000
per day. It has a
of 60 letter-writing "elves". They say that many children are confiding in Santa and expressing
fears that perhaps parents are in the dark about. One child wrote: "This year, more than the
, I need magic and to believe in you." Another child slipped a
inside her envelope for Santa to not spread the
. A "chief elf" explained the emotional
on children. She said: "The letters to Santa are a sort of
for them. All this year they have been in
and have been deprived of school and their grandpas and grandmas....Children are putting into
everything they have felt during this period."
