WASHINGTON DC— This year Curseen-Morris Processing and Distribution Center received hundreds of letters addressed to Santa. It also received a heartwarming and generous response from the community during the three weeks of the 99th season of the Operation Santa Claus program.

Now it is time for Mr. and Mrs. Santa to make their deliveries.

Join us on Christmas morning, at 8:30 a.m., in the Customer Service parking lot at Curseen-Morris P&DC, 900 Brentwood Road NE., Washington DC 20066. You will be escorted to the loading dock where you can capture the action as gifts are arranged in Santa’s “sleigh.”

Then, follow Santa and his reindeer to homes in D.C. to watch the delight unfold.

Happy Holidays from the U. S. Postal Service.

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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $67 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.