ELGIN, Ill., Dec. 21 Four-year-old twin brothers in Elgin, Ill., have been mollified by the U.S. Postal Service, which disastrously returned one of their letters to Santa, unread.
Eric and Evan Gilmore mailed their letters together early this month, but Eric's came back Dec. 9 stamped Return to Sender, Insufficient Address, Unable to Forward.The incident received national media attention and the postal service sprang into action.
Wednesday, USPS spokesman Tim Ratliff appeared at the boy's home with their original letters, a photo of Santa holding the letters, two post office teddy bears, coloring books and books about the post office in history, the Elgin (Ill.) Courier reported.
Later, Ratliff told reporters the sorting station that would have processed the boys' letters in Carol Stream, Ill., gets between 3,000-5,000 letters to Santa each year and this year's oversight was an isolated incident.
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