Swedish post office archives over a century of Santa letters

Sweden's postal service is inundated every year with thousands of letters beginning with 'Dear Santa', and it not only answers them but for over a century has kept those that stand out. With addresses such as "Lapland", "Reindeer Land" or "Santa's Igloo", the postal service PostNord last year alone received around 16,000 letters intended for Father Christmas.

A few letters every year are selected for the museum's archives, a collection that now holds about 10,000 letters from around the world, the oldest dating back to the 1890s. Many of the letters, written in children's handwriting, also have questions for Santa. And it is not only children who send letters to Santa Claus: this year's batch contained a letter from Chinese Taipei sent by a 20-year-old.