Albert Street Booster Juice in Regina accepting letters to Santa

Regina parents might be wondering how their kids can send letters to Santa Claus this year during the ongoing Canada Post strike.

Jenn Leib, owner of the Booster Juice at the Golden Mile Shopping Centre, said kids are more than welcome to drop off their letters at the store on Albert Street, and they can pick up a response from Santa four days later.

Leib said she came up with the idea after she was saddened by the thought of kids not being able to send letters this year.

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“The magic and the excitement of Christmas for the kids – which, to me, is what Christmas is all about – isn’t there this year,” she said on Tuesday.

“I came home and I said to my husband, ‘I have a crazy idea. What if I made a mailbox at the Golden Mile Booster Juice (where) kids could drop off their letters to Santa and then we get the elves to come pick it up and magically, four days later, there’s a letter from the North Pole waiting for these kids to get picked back up?”

Leib began the project on Thursday, and will accept letters until December 22. As of Tuesday, she said the store had received about three or four letters from kids.

“The gal that was working the night that the first letter came in, she phoned me all excited saying ‘Oh my gosh, they were so cute and so excited,’” Leib said.

“It’s really bringing joy to not just the kids dropping off these letters, but to our staff as well.”

Leib said it’s exciting to help bring out the magic of Christmas and give back to the community – which is what Christmas is all about.

She said she fondly remembers writing her own letters to Santa as a child.

“I always asked questions to Santa – I wanted to understand how he got here, how the reindeer flew and how the elves made all the presents,” she said.

Her two children also wrote to Santa when they were younger, and now they’re helping Leib out with this project.