Santa Claus letters received from 126 countries. France's Postal Service in 2007 specially recruited someone to answer the enormous volume of mail that was coming from Russia for Santa Claus. Other interesting Santa letter processing information, according to the UPU's 2007 study and survey of national postal operations, are: Canada Post has a special postal code for letters to Santa Claus, and since 1982 over 13,000 Canadian postal workers have volunteered to write responses. His address is: Santa Claus, North Pole, Canada, H0H 0H0; no postage is required. (see also: Ho ho ho). (This postal code, in which zeroes are used for
A Kidnapped Santa Claus since. In 1989 the story was adapted into a musical play for children, "Santa Claus is Missing!", by Sylvia Ashby, with songs by Scott Taylor. Another adaptation exists in the form of the animated film "Who Stole Santa?" in the Oz Kids series (1996). In 2009, cartoonist Alex Robinson adapted the story into comic form in a book released by Harper Collins. More generally, the idea of kidnapping Santa Claus has been exploited by other artists in other works, as in Jean Van Leeuwen's book "The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper" (1975), Tim Burton's film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), and