Greetings!

Recent meetings of senior elf teams at the North Pole have discussed preparation for Christmas at length.

And we’re all feeling really good about how ready things are.

Production us up at the workshop and they are way ahead of their goal.

The North Pole Post Office is running on time, the Wrapping Department is stocked and ready to go and the Reindeer Training teams are already hard at work.

But despite all this readiness elves here are conversing more and more about how worried they are about Santa not being here and not being in charge of all that has to get done.

They are saying that without Santa here we can’t get the job done.

The ironic thing about that is that Santa is usually gone from about the middle of November until close to Christmas Eve any way – every year.

And have we ever failed?

No. I’m telling you right now. Stop worrying. We got this. Everything with Christmas is under control.

— Elf Ernest