--- title: The UPS Store Has No Patience for Letters to Santa This Year description: In a now-deleted tweet, the UPS Store suggested they were happy to shred letters addressed to Santa Claus — and the internet was shocked canonical: https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-17T20:03:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:29.523Z og:title: The UPS Store Got Savage About Your Letters to Santa This Year og:description: The UPS Store offered to shred North Pole letters in a now-deleted savage tweet og:url: https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The UPS Store Got Savage About Your Letters to Santa This Year twitter:description: The UPS Store offered to shred North Pole letters in a now-deleted savage tweet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The UPS Store Had a Brutal Message About Your Letters to Santa This Year > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 17, 2018 8:03 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 17, 2018 8:03 PM UTC Sorry, kids: you might want to rethink sending your letters to [Santa](http://time.com/5464944/santa-stops-traffic/) via UPS Store this year if you want them to get anywhere near the [North Pole](http://time.com/money/5471124/how-to-mail-letter-to-santa/). “If your child addresses a letter to the North Pole, you can leave it with us,” the UPS Store tweeted over the weekend. The kicker: “We do shredding.” The dry message — very much the opposite of festive — took off online, with Twitter users shaking their heads virtually at the mail carrier’s dark tone. And on Monday afternoon, the tweet was deleted from the UPS Store’s account altogether. But not before there were plenty of responses, from those applauding the social media team for their brutal honesty and willingness to “break children’s hearts,” to those wincing at the dark, [Grinch-like](http://time.com/5452013/grinch-taylor-swift-meme/) spirit of the post. But while the author of the UPS Store tweet may not be on great terms with Santa Claus or his helpers, the U.S. Postal Service at least wants to help parents out keeping the fantasy of Santa Claus alive. ## What does the Post Office do with letters addressed to Santa? Letters addressed to the North Pole Postmaster in Anchorage, AK before Dec. 8 with included responses from “Santa” are being sent back with a North Pole postmark, no shredding necessary. > [](https://twitter.com/TheUPSStore/status/1074428471923728384) > [](https://twitter.com/cIairer/status/1074508751137193984) > [](https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1074749738463965184) > [](https://twitter.com/PatriciaTreble/status/1074745391235694597) > [](https://twitter.com/PennFal25/status/1074747310352056321) > [](https://twitter.com/AliseNavidad/status/1074746981703143425) UPS did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment on this story. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/"},"headline":"The UPS Store Had a Brutal Message About Your Letters to Santa This Year","datePublished":"2018-12-17T20:03:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:29.523Z","description":"Santa may not be getting his letters if the UPS Store has anything to do with it","url":"https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Holidays 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5481911/ups-store-santa-letters/","name":"The UPS Store Had a Brutal Message About Your Letters to Santa This Year"}}]}] ```