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Santa’s own Postal Code [H0H 0H0]

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Santa’s own Postal Code [H0H 0H0]
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Where do you send your letters to Santa to? The North Pole? Santa’s workshop? Actually Santa has his own postal code, H0H 0H0 (with zeros instead of the letter ‘o’) and it’s in Canada where postal codes are alphanumeric. Letters “ the kind that bypass parents “ used to end up undelivered because there was no centralized address for Kris Kringle. But for the past 30 years, Canada Post volunteers (in the thousands) had been helping Santa reply to a million letters (every year!) from children around the world in different languages, including Braille.

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Weird and wonderful Christmas traditions

To each their own, they say, and they’re absolutely correct. What works for us may be weird to others. Nevertheless, here are a unusual Christmas traditions from countries across the world

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Published Dec 25, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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Weird and wonderful Christmas traditions

PhilippinesThe Giant Lantern Festival (Ligligan Parul Sampernandu) is held each year on the Saturday before Christmas Eve in the city of San Fernando “ the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines.” The festival attracts spectators from all over the country and across the globe. Eleven barangays (villages) take part in the Festival and competition is fierce as everyone pitches in trying to build the most elaborate lantern. Originally the lanterns were simple creations around…

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