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Adopting a Letter to Santa

Help make people’s holiday wishes come true by adopting a letter and sending them the perfect gift.

What’s an Adopter?

When you adopt a letter, you take on the magical responsibility of helping Santa fulfill the writer’s wishes! To participate, every adopter must complete an ID verification.

    How to Adopt

    • STEP 1

      Create Your Account

      Create an account and verify your identity. Only verified users can adopt — this helps keep letter writers safe.

    • STEP 2

      Read Letters

      Look through letters and find one or more you want to fulfill. You can use the filter to look for ones in your area.

    • STEP 3

      Adopt Solo or Share a Family

      Several adopters can easily team up to share a family of letters and bring more holiday sparkle to everyone’s holiday.

    • STEP 4

      Decide on Shipping

      There are two ways to fulfill gifts, either through our newly expanded online catalog, or by shipping packages from a Post Office location.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    • Monday, September 14: Letters can now be sent to 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888.  

    • Monday, November 2: Registration and ID verification for adopters begins.  

    • Monday, November 16: Letter adoption begins.  

    • Saturday, December 5: This is the last day to send letters. Letters must be postmarked by this date.  

    • Saturday, December 12: This is the last day to adopt letters before the website closes at 8pm ET. Send packages before this date to be sure they arrive by December 25, but the earlier the better to help families plan ahead.

    Anyone in the continental U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico can participate. All you have to do is sign up, create an account and get verified.

    Yes. Each registered person can adopt no more than 20 letters. Teams can adopt 20 letters per participating team member. 

    Please be sure you are able to fulfill the letters that you do adopt. Every adopted letter is removed from the site. If you are unable to fulfill the request, cancel your adoption on the Your Letters section of your account so it can be adopted by another generous person.  

    Yes. Letters from the same household are posted collectively as a family. Because we don’t want anyone to think Santa forgot about them, we encourage families to be adopted together and for each family member to receive something. You can adopt families individually or as a team — the team format is set up to make it easy to join forces, divide up the wishes and fulfill all the letters together!  

    New letters are added to the site daily starting Monday, November 16 through December 12. In many instances, letters are adopted as soon as they are posted. If there are no letters, it means they’ve currently all been adopted and are getting their holiday wishes fulfilled. But check back — new letters are added to the site every day. 

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