B.C. friends write and deliver letters from Santa during postal strike [Video]

When Tina Marsh realized the postal strike was encroaching on Christmas, she grew increasingly concerned about the kids in her neighbourhood.

“We need to do something,” she recalls thinking. “And I was like, ‘What if we collect letters?!’”

So Tina asked her friend and co-worker Tracey Barry if she wanted to step up and help Santa too.

“I jumped on board,” Tracey smiles. “And said, ‘Let’s do it!’”

So the festive friends posted a bunch of messages on social media about their plan and constructed dynamically decorated mailboxes at the end of each other’s driveways (one at 950 Thrush Pl. in Colwood, the other at 2399 Bellamy Rd. in Langford).

Then they invited kids to drop off mail addressed to the North Pole.

“We contact Santa and let him know we have them,” Tracey explains.

“Then Santa lets us know how he wants us to reply,” Tina adds.

“Then we …