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From the AP, via Yahoo!:
A sex offender is responsible for taking away some of the joy of the Postal Service's Operation Santa program: Volunteers who answer children's letters to Santa can no longer deliver gifts in person — or even know where they're going.
The program resumed Saturday morning in New York and Chicago, three days after it was abruptly suspended after a postal worker in Maryland recognized one volunteer as a registered offender. A postal inspector intervened before the individual could answer a child's letter, but officials decided changes had to be made.
I can't tell you how sad this story makes me. I'm glad, however that the program will continue. I'm just depressed that reality has to intrude in such a nasty way over a great holiday donation program.
That said, I've always just donated to Toys for Tots or via an Angel Tree, having been a recipient of such gifts myself a time or two as a child.
A sex offender is responsible for taking away some of the joy of the Postal Service's Operation Santa program: Volunteers who answer children's letters to Santa can no longer deliver gifts in person — or even know where they're going.
The program resumed Saturday morning in New York and Chicago, three days after it was abruptly suspended after a postal worker in Maryland recognized one volunteer as a registered offender. A postal inspector intervened before the individual could answer a child's letter, but officials decided changes had to be made.
I can't tell you how sad this story makes me. I'm glad, however that the program will continue. I'm just depressed that reality has to intrude in such a nasty way over a great holiday donation program.
That said, I've always just donated to Toys for Tots or via an Angel Tree, having been a recipient of such gifts myself a time or two as a child.