Now send your letters to Santa Claus by e-mail

But Santa Claus is allowed to indulge in a little technology. Word has it that Santa enjoys surfing the Internet and receiving e-mail messages at his home in the North Pole.

It?s with that in mind, the Southern Standard is giving its readers a chance to communicate with Santa using the wonders of technology.

With December approaching, the newspaper has begun to receive a steady flow of letters to Santa. In the past, those letters have either been hand delivered to our office or sent by U.S. mail. Now youngsters have a third choice.

Thanks to the creation of a new e-mail address ? [email protected] ? children can send their letters to Santa using the Internet. Letters sent by e-mail will be published in the Standard the same as always. But sending letters by e-mail will save postage, a possible trip to the post office, and letters will arrive in minutes instead of days.

?Ten years ago, who would have ever thought about children sending letters to Santa by e-mail,? said Standard publisher Patricia Zechman. ?But nowadays children are starting to use computers at younger and younger ages. This gives them another fun way to send their Santa letters. Some of them might get a big kick out of doing it this way.?

The e-mail address is currently up and running and Santa is waiting for your letters to arrive. So if you?re looking for a neat new way to get your letter to Santa this year, be sure to keep this e-mail address in mind ? [email protected].