"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." No one can see that the Christmas season is fast approaching more than the U.S. Post Office. The Cedartown Post Office has prepared for the holidays and is equipped to take care of local Yuletide mail. A lot of the mail the post office receives during the holiday season will be letters that children have been carefully and mindfully written to Santa Claus, in hopes that jolly old St. Nick will reply. That's where the post office steps in as Santa's helper. The post office sees to it that each letter is sent straight to the North Pole where it is taken to Santa. Each day the post office is visited by a few of Santa's elves and it is the elves that load up all the letters and fly them back to Santa's house. It is there at the North Pole in Santa's workshop where all the letters from children, both naughty and nice, are opened and read by Santa himself. Santa reads each letter and tries his very best to reply to each and every child who writes and tells him of their wishes for Christmas. Once St. Nick finishes replying to the letters, he seals the envelopes with a little bit of Christmas magic and sends them to post offices across the world, where the mailmen deliver each one. Not only are Santa and the elves busy around Christmas time, so is the Post Office. With so many seasonal letters and stacks upon stacks of holiday packages the Post Office handles much more mail than usual.

According to Ralph O. Brooks, Cedartown Postmaster, about 20 million cards, letters and packages will be sent out from Nov. 24 up until Dec. 31, up from 3 percent from last year. This translates to about 150 million cards and letters a day, compared to 100 million on a average day.

"Here in Cedartown, we anticipate delivering an additional 125,000 cards, and letters and packages during this time," states Brooks.