He\u2019s making a list \u2013 and checking it twice.<\/p>\n
And Santa will try to answer the requests for presents, from those both \u201cnaughty\u201d and \u201cnice,\u201d which he receives from children in his Ocean Beach \u201cLetters for Santa\u201d mailbox.<\/p>\n
The OB Yuletide mailbox was sponsored once again this year by Ocean Beach Business Center. Santa\u2019s address at the North Pole hasn\u2019t changed. But OBBC has, with the business center having moved at the end of this year from 4876 Santa Monica Ave. to the popular indoor mall at 4967 Newport Ave., suites 10 and 12<\/p>\n
In recent years, husband-and-wife team Jo and Chris Peregoy, co-owners and operators of OBBC, have set up a \u201cLetters for Santa\u201d mailbox in front of their place of business.<\/p>\n
\u201cSanta drops off his mailbox every year right after Thanksgiving,\u201d noted Jo Peregoy adding, \u201cSince he vacations in OB, he leaves his box to collect all the letters from the kids of OB. He takes the letters back to the North Pole with him, and responds back to each child, so long as the letters are in the mailbox before Dec. 10. Santa writes his response letter, stamps the envelope with his official North Pole stamp, and sends the letter back to each child, to be received before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Jo Peregoy: \u201cSanta wants us to be sure we include a return address so that he can send back his letters. Santa’s mailbox will be available all the way up until Christmas for those wanting to send their letters, understanding that any letters dropped off after Dec. 10\u00a0may not receive an official Santa response in time for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
And how has this year\u2019s Letters for Santa response been compared to past years?<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch more turnout this year,\u201d replied Peregoy. \u201cWe have over 200 letters received at this point. Word has definitely gotten out and the response has been amazing. People from all ages and walks of life have come and sent a letter to Santa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peregoy noted she and Chris donate the pre-printed letter paper and envelopes, plus the stamps for mailing. \u201cSo, we are always open for donations to the cause and\/or volunteers to help mail out all the letters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Peregoy\u2019s Letters for Santa mailbox started out small and makeshift and has been evolving, getting larger ever since.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first we had a large Amazon box that we used that we spray painted to look like a mailbox,\u201d said Jo Peregoy noting OB Town Council came to their rescue at the start after \u201chearing our pleas for raising funds for a legitimate mailbox, and they made a donation to help get this program going, to which we\u2019re very thankful to them for the box.\u201d<\/p>\n
In explaining why Santa has an OB postal outlet, Jo said: \u201cThe running story we tell people is that Santa has a vacation home in OB, and we\u2019re his local mailbox because we have mailboxes. So he picks up his mail here, and he writes letters from here so that way they have a local stamp.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some letters for Santa this year:<\/strong><\/p>\n Santa,<\/p>\n Thank you for all that you do! I have one question. How do you deliver all the gifts in one night?<\/p>\n I would like the books The Wild Robot and the Wild Robot escapes.<\/p>\n Love,<\/p>\n Arianna Diaz<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear Santa,<\/p>\n I was very good this year. I went to India by myself. I took care of my sister. Can I please have a blue iPad for Christmas? Thank you. My name is Avish.<\/p>\n I live in San Diego. I promise to be a good kid next year.<\/p>\n Love Avish to Santa.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He\u2019s making a list \u2013 and checking it twice. And Santa will try to answer the requests for presents, from those both \u201cnaughty\u201d and \u201cnice,\u201d which he receives from children in his Ocean Beach \u201cLetters for Santa\u201d mailbox. The OB Yuletide mailbox was sponsored once again this year by Ocean Beach Business Center. Santa\u2019s address […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":317810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"He\u2019s making a list \u2013 and checking it twice. And Santa will try to answer the requests for presents, from those both \u201cnaughty\u201d and \u201cnice,\u201d which he receives from children in his Ocean Beach \u201cLetters for Santa\u201d mailbox.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11561,11550],"tags":[14801,12547,13617],"class_list":["post-317809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-peninsula-beacon","category-top-stories","tag-letters-for-santa","tag-ocean-beach","tag-ocean-beach-business-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}