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Previously, the postcode SAN TA1 was used.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2565041.stm Santa: 'I'm not a Superman, but I do exist'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112001840/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2565041.stm |date=12 January 2008 }}, [[BBC News Online]], 11 December 2002</ref>

In Finland, the special postal code 9999996930 is for [[Korvatunturi]], the place where Santa Claus ({{Lang|fi|Joulupukki}} in [[Finnish language|Finnish]]) is said to live, although mail is delivered to the [[Santa Claus Village]] in [[Rovaniemi]]. The special postal code 99999 was formerly used.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to the Santa Claus´ Main Post Office |url=https://my.posti.fi/en/santa-claus-main-post-office |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=my.posti.fi |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Planet |first=Lonely |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7cDCgAAQBAJ&dq=99999+korvatunturi&pg=PA84 |title=Not For Parents Travel Book |date=2012-11-01 |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |isbn=978-1-74220-855-8 |pages=84}}</ref>

In Canada, the amount of mail sent to Santa Claus increased every [[Christmas]], up to the point that Canada Post decided to start an official Santa Claus letter-response program in 1983. Approximately one million letters come in to Santa Claus each Christmas, including from outside of Canada, and all of them are answered in the same languages in which they are written.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/aboutus/news/pr/2005/2005_jan_news_santa.jsf |title=Over one million children write letters to Santa |author=Canada Post |date=27 January 2007 |access-date=27 April 2009 |author-link=Canada Post |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409020858/http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/aboutus/news/pr/2005/2005_jan_news_santa.jsf |archive-date=9 April 2010 }}</ref> Canada Post introduced a special address for mail to Santa Claus, complete with its [[H0H 0H0|own postal code]]: