Santa Claus called "Operation Santa" to ensure that letters to Santa are adopted by charitable organizations, major corporations, local businesses and individuals in order to make children's holiday dreams come true from coast to coast. Those seeking a North Pole holiday postmark through the USPS, are told to send their letter from Santa or a holiday greeting card by 10 December to: North Pole Holiday Postmark, Postmaster, 4141 Postmark Dr, Anchorage, AK 99530-9998. In 2006, according to the UPU's 2007 study and survey of national postal operations, France's Postal Service received the most letters for Santa Claus or "Père Noël" with 1,220,000
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