Father Chistmas never guaranteed a reply to letters, he was always too busy - until now. Santa Claus has joined the Information Super Highway. www.santa-and-rudolph.co.uk is based in England but in the true spirit of Christmas, Santa delivers to children all over the world wide web.
Santa's website is very family friendly and encourages children of all ages to write to Santa via email and he will reply with a personal free message. There is no fee for a letter from Santa which is unusual in this commercial world and Father Christmas promises not to pass on email addresses.
Even those of us who believe in Santa still believe that nobody does anything for nothing - so what is behind the motivation to reply to every single letter from every child throughout the world who writes a letter to Santa on www.santa-and-rudolph.co.uk?
Sponsorship seems to be the answer. Big names, Famous brands, High Street stores, Shopping Malls - all have a little interest in Santa's website.
When we log on to Santa and Rudolph, a cheerful Christmas jingle sounds - so if you are at work, turn your sound down!. On the home page is a group of logos which when clicked on will take you to Christmas gift ideas from big stores. But you can ingnore those banners and simply choose to send Santa an email. There is no commercial message here and you get an immediate response (because Santa is very busy) and then in a day or so you will get a real personal response from Santa's website... and still no commercial message.
If you wanted some gift ideas, you can click on the appropriate link and the commercial arm of www.santa-and-rudolph.co.uk will provide some excellent sources of Christmas gift ideas.
Remember though, you are not buying from Santa ... perish the thought! Father Christmas selling presents!! - Each store has a secure server and you deal direct with the shop in question. So if you click on to Marks & Spencer - you buy from Marks and Spencer.