The transceiver
Your letter, across the ice.
Write a few lines — what you are hoping for, how the year went, who you are thinking of. Santa reads every one himself and writes back.
Archive · est. 1823
Every letter is read twice.
Read in confidence
Letters are kept in Santa's archive. Nothing is shared, ever.
Always answered
A personalised reply is written back the moment your letter lands.
By reindeer post
A copy is mailed to you, sealed at the Pole with the star crest.
Flight control
Follow the sleigh.
A running simulation of the route the reindeer will fly: twelve sectors, one night, every rooftop in the world.
Polar sweep · live simulation
Now passing
North Pole
Next stop
Longyearbyen
Altitude
31,200 m
Velocity
1,046,200 km/h
Carrot fuel
94%
Gifts delivered
1,284,930
Flight manifest · 12 sectors
- North Pole90.0°N 0.0°E
- Longyearbyen78.2°N 15.6°E
- Reykjavík64.1°N 21.9°W
- Dublin53.3°N 6.3°W
- Lisbon38.7°N 9.1°W
- Dakar14.7°N 17.4°W
- Recife8.0°S 34.9°W
- Buenos Aires34.6°S 58.4°W
- Mexico City19.4°N 99.1°W
- New York40.7°N 74.0°W
- Honolulu21.3°N 157.9°W
- Auckland36.8°S 174.8°E
Simulated telemetry from the sleigh's harness. Real flight data goes live on Christmas Eve, when the route runs from the dateline westward, one night for the whole world.
Glee engine
A terrible joke, on demand.
Somewhere between the flight data and the letters, the elves keep a joke machine. It has never once been funny on purpose.
Glee engine · batch no. 01
What do you call Santa when he stops moving?