How to write a letter to Santa Claus in Great Ustyug?

Christmas holidays smell tangerines and Christmas tree. Even adults on the eve of the most magical holiday of the year remember themselves as children. A person carries the faith in a New Year's miracle through his life.

And it begins from childhood - with the belief that the winter wizard Santa Claus will come and bring the most welcome gift that is so much dreamed of. In what way can a child create a winter fairy tale, how to send a message to Grandfather Frost correctly and in a timely manner, we will tell in this material.

The residences of the main fairy-tale winter donor are located in the Arkhangelsk region, in the Lapland nature reserve on the Kola Peninsula, in Murmansk, but the main residence is considered the residence of Santa Claus, located in the small town of Veliky Ustyug, which territorially belongs in the Vologda region. Opened it in 1999.

It would be very difficult for Santa Claus to make out everything, but he has excellent assistants. On the territory of the residence are located the Snow Maiden's Tower, a trail of fairy tales with their favorite children's fairy tale characters. Here also live the deer and that same famous troika of horses, on which the Russian Father Frost is often depicted on postcards.

It is here that postal workers send children's messages with pictures and poems, with requests and success reports, if there is no other data on the envelope besides the inscription “Santa Claus”. If, on the envelope, the city is indicated - Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, then the message, of course, will go there.

To begin writing letters to the bearded New Year's character, in principle, it is possible already from the end of autumn, “Santa Claus Mail” at this time is already opening. The arts and thoughts that the child expresses in a pattern or in a free form are folded into an envelope. The main thing is not to forget to buy a stamp at the “Russian Post” tariffs (no more than 50 rubles) and indicate the correct address.

In Veliky Ustyug, a children's letter will reach anyway, even if the address is not indicated. Mail workers "by default" send all "unidentified" messages from children to the residence in the Vologda region. Nevertheless, the letter will reach faster if you write the address and zip code.

Not only children, but also adults write on the website of the New Year wizard. If you believe the statistics given on the main page of the resource, by the beginning of December 2017, Santa Claus has already received more than 3 million e-mails.

You can write a letter by clicking on the banner with the image of a wizard. Also on the left side of the main page, as well as at the very top of the page there is an active link "Letter and gift from Santa Claus".

Many sites on the eve of the new 2018 launched the campaign "Write a letter to Santa Claus".

Such quick ways to send an email are less romantic than a postal item, but they are more convenient for parents. Since the child who sent the letter on the site is sure that the secret of his message is preserved, and parents can then go to the site and read the wishes of their children, because all the letters after moderation are published.

Not just writing a letter, but also making it possible for a child before the holiday to receive a response from Grandfather Frost, is possible in two ways.

The first option is a handwritten answer, starting with a personal greeting (“Hello, dear Peter!”) And ending with detailed instructions for the coming year.

To make the answer more reliable, you should download one of the forms from the Internet, for example, this one.

Print it on quality paper on a color printer. Fill it with beautiful handwriting. Be sure to pay attention to that in the form was the signature and seal of the residence of Santa Claus.

Next, the finished message fits into an envelope and is sent by parents to their own address; you can use a registered letter to hand it over to the child personally.

The second method allows you to order not only the answer, but also a gift from the winter wizard. On the same official website of Santa Claus from Veliky Ustyug, parents are online they can choose the desired gift, a postcard and write a text in a special window, which should be in the reply letter. This service is paid. Parents will have to pay for the selected gift, and for its delivery, as well as for the letter, the cost of which in Russia is 100 rubles.

It is reasonable to take care of making an order in a month and a half. Do not forget to pay it immediately. According to the rules of Santa Claus, unpaid bids are liquidated after 2 weeks.

Preparing for writing a letter should be in advance, discussing, as it were, in passing with the child, what he would like to ask a winter wizard as a gift. It is necessary to explain to the child that it is ugly and impolite to ask for expensive gifts. This will greatly facilitate the lives of the parents themselves, who then have to fulfill the new year wish of the children.

1. The message always begins with a polite greeting, congratulations on the upcoming holiday.
2. Next, ask the child to tell a little about himself - where and with whom he lives, what he likes to do, what successes he has achieved in the outgoing year. It will be good if the baby learns to be grateful, and will surely say “thank you” for last year’s gifts.
3. Only after this, the time comes to begin to express your desires.
4. At the end of the letter, the child politely says goodbye and signs.

If the child is still small, older brothers or sisters can help him with writing, if the child is alone in the family, then one of the adults can be called upon to help - dad, mom, grandmother or grandfather.

The longer a child believes in a miracle, the more kind and harmonious an adult grows from it. This is verified by many generations. If a child early loses faith in fairy tale and magic, then he too soon confronts the real world, in which there is not always a place for kindness, love, miracle.

In some parents, the child, at the age of 7, confidently declares that Santa Claus does not exist, while in others, until his teens, he continues to write good and touching messages to the winter wizard. Everything is in the hands of parents. You can support faith in a miracle, knowing small parental “tricks”, which will help the child to keep the desire in secret, and the parents still learn about it and execute on behalf of Santa Claus:

1. Do not ask the child "in the forehead" that he will ask Santa Claus, find out carefully, attract third parties to it (if your child’s child or another friend at your request will carefully ask what your offspring is dreaming about, the conspiracy will not be violated) .
2. Do not take the child's letter for Santa Claus from the child and do not demand to give it to you to read.
3. Go to the mail together.Let the child perform all actions on sending himself, but it is important not to lower the message into the mailbox, but to send it through the mail worker, the operator. When paying for the stamp, be sure to send a note to the female worker asking him not to send the message, but to postpone it until the evening. In the evening, after work, you can go in and pick up the letter, read and start preparing a real Christmas miracle for the child.
4. Do not show that you know what the child wrote about.
5. Remove all price tags from gifts, take out instructions, warranty cards so that the child cannot find out in which store the gift is bought.
6. When the child rushes under the tree to unpack the gift wrapping, pretend you don’t know what it is, take an active part in the unpacking, pry and admire the kindness and generosity of the winter wizard.

Fairy tale child is not just needed. He needs it as air, as food, as water. Without a fairy tale, a person cannot develop fully, it is difficult for a child to develop imagination, fantasy, it is difficult to learn to exist in fictional circumstances.

In children under 7 years old, the mythical phase of development is in full swing. That is how psychologists call the thirst for fairy tales. A child who is deprived of the opportunity to believe in fairy tales and miracles, matures earlier, but grows up less flexible and adaptive person.

Psychologists emphasize that the tradition of writing letters to Santa Claus is important not only for the children themselves, but also for adults, because this process (in some cases, a whole spy special operation) unites all family members.

And while it is still small, it will be a pleasure to create a miracle to its parents. The opportunity to be in the role of a real wizard at least once a year is a valuable experience for moms and dads.

About the “Mail of Santa Claus”, which send applications for the response letter and a gift, most of the parents' reviews are only positive. Postcards come bright and colorful, high-quality, the design of envelopes changes every year.

However, when ordering in the last New Year's Eve, the response will have to wait a very long time. Some parents described situations when the answer only comes in spring or early summer. However, such incidents happen infrequently.

According to the first letters, which have already begun to arrive in the address of Grandfather Frost, and which are published in the public domain, it follows that under the tree in the New Year's Eve 2018, children want to find the following gifts (rating compiled by us on the basis of letters received before December 1, 2017):

• cellular telephone;
• skateboard and hoverboard;
• a laptop;
• robots;
• Stuffed Toys;
• sweets;
• cars, airplanes, tracks, ships;
• water and laser guns;
• constructors;
• invitation to the tv show.

The wishes of adults, who also leave their letters on the public New Year's mail, are almost the same, but more ambitious. Adults ask Santa Claus:

• new car;
• money for an apartment or for building a house;
• child;
• new job;
• device privacy;
• opportunities to shake hands with President Vladimir Putin, world-renowned engineer and inventor Ilon Mask and the entire Russian hockey team.

You can watch Santa Claus's house in Veliky Ustyug in the next video.