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Postal Santa tries to deliver on letter requests

By Billy Baker

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 20, 2011

On the walls are the letters from the kids. Some try flattering Santa. “You are so rockin’ awesome,’’ one wrote. Some try sympathizing with him. “I know that you are very busy getting ready for Christmas,’’ another scrawled, “so I will be brief.’’ And some try the honest approach and come clean. “I’m sorry,’’ one wrote poetically and phonetically, “that I didn’t be as good as I sopost to.’’ But they aren’t the only letters to Santa in this backroom at the Boston headquarters of the US Postal Service.

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