Digital letter
$6.95
- Color and black and white PDFs
- Ready minutes after you approve
- Print at home as often as you like
The Official Correspondence Authority of Santa Claus
A letter from Santa that knows your child.
Tell Santa a few real things from their year. Read and edit the whole letter before you pay. Then choose a printable keepsake or a mailed delivery from the North Pole Bureau.
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No payment until you approve · Digital letter $6.95 · Printed and mailed $16.95 · North Pole Deluxe $24.95
Every letter carries the Bureau seal and Santa’s signature.
The moment they realize Santa actually knows.
Any letter can print a name at the top. A child stops at the second sentence when Santa mentions something that really happened.
- I heard you finally rode your bicycle without the training wheels.
- Please tell Biscuit I have not forgotten about him.
- Mrs. Claus tells me that losing that front tooth was very brave.
Examples of the kind of line the Bureau writes. Not customer quotes. Your child’s letter is written from the details you give and nothing else.
That is the difference between a Santa letter and their Santa letter.
How it works
You do not need a card. You do not even need to give us an email address. The Bureau asks for those only at the moment you decide to order.
Step 1
Tell Santa about your child
Their name, their age, and a few true things from their year. Two details are plenty.
Step 2
Read every word first
The whole letter, on screen, in full. Ask for warmer, funnier or shorter, or rewrite a line yourself. If you do not love it, close the tab. Nothing has been charged.
Step 3
Sealed and sent
Printed on heavy cream stationery, signed, sealed and mailed. Or download it the moment you approve it.
Three ways to receive it
Every edition holds the same letter. What differs is how it reaches you, and what arrives beside it.
Printed and mailed
$16.95
- Heavy cream Bureau stationery
- Santa's signature and the Bureau seal
- Sealed and posted to your home
- A digital copy to keep, in case the post is slow
Everything the Bureau sends
North Pole Deluxe
$24.95
- The printed letter, sealed and mailed
- A Nice List certificate with their name on it
- A digital copy to keep and reprint
Whichever you pick, you read the letter in full before you pay for it. Compare all three side by side.
Those three pictures are the actual files the Bureau produces, shown at full size. Each one holds exactly what that edition contains and nothing else.
Order a mailed letter by Wednesday 9 December
That gives the Bureau time to write, print and post it before the last mail day. Letter post is not tracked, so we cannot promise the day it lands on the mat.
A digital letter has no deadline at all. You can print one on Christmas Eve.
Why the Bureau exists
We are parents. We bought the fill-in-the-blank Santa letters, and we watched a seven year old read one to the end and work out that it did not know anything about her. It had her name at the top and nothing else that was hers.
That is the whole problem this was built to fix. Not nicer paper. Not a fancier seal. A letter that actually knows something.
More about who makes these
Written for one child. Read by one parent.
The letter only uses what you tell us. It will not invent a pet, a sibling or a school play. If a draft slips, it is thrown away and written again before you ever see it.
Then it is yours. Ask for it warmer or funnier. Cut a line. Add one. The version you approve is the version that prints, and it is frozen the moment you pay so what arrives is what you read.
What is the North Pole Bureau?
The North Pole Bureau is a personalized letter-from-Santa service for parents in the United States, published by Anvil Road LLC. A parent gives a few details about their child, Santa writes a one-page letter about them, and the parent reads and approves every word before it is printed on cream stationery, signed, sealed and mailed, or delivered as a printable PDF. Letters cost $6.95 to $24.95. Unlike fill-in-the-blank templates, every letter is written for one child and checked so it never invents a detail the parent did not give.
What arrives
- One page, US letter size, on heavy cream stationery.
- The Bureau seal at the head and Santa’s signature at the foot.
- A sealed envelope addressed to your child. Deluxe adds a Nice List certificate.
- Digital editions: a color PDF and a black and white PDF, ready in minutes.
Quick answers
- Who writes the letter?
- An AI writing system drafts it from the details you give, in Santa's voice. You read every word and can change it before you pay.
- Will it mention things that are not true?
- No. A check runs on every draft so it only uses what you told us. A draft that invents something is thrown away and rewritten.
- When will a mailed letter arrive?
- It goes by ordinary letter post, which is not tracked, so we cannot promise a date. Order early in December to be safe.
- Can I change it after I pay?
- No. The version you approve is the one that prints. Spot a mistake before we print, and we cancel and refund so you can start again.
- Do you contact my child?
- Never. We only email the adult who ordered, and we never ask for a child's email, birthday or school.
- What if something goes wrong?
- Reply to any order email. Damaged letters are reprinted free, lost ones resent, broken links replaced.
You approve every word
The letter is yours to read, change and approve before a single copy is printed.
We never contact your child
No child email, no birthday, no school. We collect what the letter needs and nothing else.
Made to be kept
Heavy cream stock, the Bureau's printed seal, and Santa's own signature. Type set the way an office would set it.
Also from the Bureau
The letter is one night of the year. These are the rest of it.
Start your child’s letter
A few minutes. You will read the whole letter before you decide, and nothing is charged until you do.
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