Field narrows for Santa letters suspect
December 14, 2007
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Canada Post investigators and Ottawa police are narrowing the field of suspects in the hunt for the person behind some letters from Santa that contained inappropriate material.
Post Office spokeswoman Cindy Daoust says the Letter From Santa program has been shut down in the Ottawa region until the culprit is found.
At least 10 hand-written letters were sent out that contained curse words and descriptions of lewd acts.
Daoust says the Canada Post workers, known as Postal Elves, are in shock over what has happened to the program in the Ottawa area.
Moya Greene, the president and CEO of Canada Post, says the post office is taking the matter very seriously.
Canada Post handles more than a million letters a year to Santa -- more than 11,000 current and former postal employees help reply to every letter received from a child.
Daoust says the hunt for the person behind the inappropriate letters is going and she's "very encouraged" with the results.
14:20ET 14-12-07
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