Operation Santa Claus Post Office Locations in California – 2009

LETTERS to SANTA PROGRAM

Delivering the Holidays, Delivering Dreams

As close as we can tell, the Postal Service began receiving letters to Santa Claus more than 100 years ago. However, it was in 1912 that Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local postmasters to allow postal employees and citizens to respond to the letters in the program that became known as Operation Santa.

In 1940, mail volume for Santa increased so much the Postal Service invited charitable organizations and corporations to participate to provide written responses to the letters and small gifts to the children who wrote them. Over the past 69 years, the program has taken on a life of its own. Postal facilities in cities around the country today allow charitable organizations, major corporations, local businesses and individuals to adopt letters to Santa to make children’s holiday dreams come true from coast to coast.

Individuals and organizations interested in adopting a letter should go to a participating office and complete a participation form. Click here to print a PDF of participating post offices. You can also call your local post office to see if this wonderful program is available in your area. Call 1-800-ASK-USPS.

California USPS Operation Santa Claus Locations

USPS – Sacramento District
545 Downtown Plaza, Ste 1031
Sacramento, CA 95814

USPS – San Francisco P&DC
1300 Evans Street
San Francisco, CA 94124

Telephone: 415-550-5005

USPS – Oakland Bay-Valley District Office
201 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: 510-251-3127

Participating Post Office Locations Across America

Click here to print or view Operation Santa Claus locations in other cities.

Click here to print Individual Participant Form.

Click here to print Organization Participant Form.

Call your local post office to find out if this wonderful program is available in your area. 1-800-ASK-USPS.

Please email us with new locations that are not listed on this form and we will immediately add them to our list!

Thank you so much for your interest and participation in Operation Santa Claus and we wish you and yours the very merriest Christmas!

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