From: dfo@tko.vtt.fi (Foxvog Douglas)
Subject: Re: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus
Summary: Canadian claims North Pole, not just Santa
Keywords: Santa
Organization: VTT
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:54:22 GMT

I received the following comment from someone who could not post to
the net.  As it does not contain personal material i am assuming
that he would not mind my posting it, especially since he expressed
a desire to do so.

From: u36!bbi.kwnet.on.ca!sp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Sean P. Goggin)
Message-Id: <9208262301.A9168zp@bbi.kwnet.on.ca>
Date: Wed Aug 26 23:01:06 1992
Subject: Santa Claus.

I regret that I must email you as I cannot postnews from this site.

What an outrageous suggestion perpetrated by  both the Finns and 
Greenlanders that Santa Claus's home is in their respective countries.

Every North American child knows that Santa Claus can be reached at
his address:

       Santa Claus,
       North Pole,
       CANADA  H0H OHO
       ^^^^^^

The Canadian Government consider the exact location to be a state
secret, but have carefully selected specially trained Post Office 
personnel to deliver all mail so addressed to SC's secret workshop.

It is beyond dispute that every RADAR station in North America on each 
and every December 24th. plot an unidentified object originating in
CANADA's northland.   Refute that ! Eh!
^^^^^^^^
We also have in our sovereignty both the magnetic and physical North 
Poles, conclusively affirming our legitimate claim as country of 
residence of the venerable gentleman.

Further false and base assertions by Finns, Swedes, Danes, and I note,
Norwegians will cause us to take forceful action to the detriment of the 
aforementioned nations.

Should these spurious claims not cease forthwith, we will inflict you all 
with our special virus, constitutionalitis.

Consider yourself warned.

Regards from Canada, the one and only homeland of Santa Claus.

       Sean

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And my reply as i cannot email to his site:

I beg to differ on what "every North American child" knows.  The kids in the
US have never heard of this address that the Canadian govt. has set up (except
possibly some in border communities).  You are correct that the North
Magnetic Pole is located in Canada, but the geographical North Pole is in
international "waters" far from the Canadian coast.

I also have an envelope with a US Christmas stamp on it which is
postmarked "North Pole, Alaska," but i do not know if it allegedly came
from Santa Claus.  I did not note the ZIP code, but the US may have put
99999, which is the ZIP code that Finland uses.

I know that the NORAD "defense" radars report the unidentified object each
Dec. 24th eve (do all report it?  surely the overlap is not that great--it
would depend upon the path taken which radars would notice the object). But
consider that if Santa replenished his sleigh in northern Finland after 
servicing Europe, he would certainly come over the Arctic on the way to North
America.

BTW, most European govt's DO have constitutions, so we would be immune to
your version of the plague.

doug foxvog
dfo@tko.vtt.fi

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