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An unlikely source has the pandemic fears of thousands of children across the world - Santa's mailbag. A post office in France that mail it for Santa has the concerns children have been about COVID-19. The letters contain the usual requests for Christmas gifts, but many have emotional outpourings that an insight into how the coronavirus pandemic is young minds. The post office has been to "Dear Santa" letters since 1962. A writer who to the notes said: "This year, we really feel their fears - for themselves, their grandparents or their parents. It's what really from their letters. And in every country."

The post office has been with around 12,000 letters per day. It a team of 60 letter-writing "elves". They that many children are confiding in Santa and expressing heartfelt fears that perhaps parents are in the dark about. One child : "This year, more than the others, I magic and to believe in you." Another child a mask inside her envelope for Santa to not the virus. A "chief elf" explained the emotional toll on children. She said: "The letters to Santa a sort of release for them. All this year they have in lockdowns and have been deprived of school and their grandpas and grandmas....Children are into words everything they have felt during this period."