The Need for Speed at the North Pole
North Pole Flight Command reported last night that a record number of sleigh flights have left the North Pole in recent days.
The nature of those flights are no secret: they are moving completed working from Santa’s Workshop and the Wrapping Department to staging areas in different places around the world. This is standard protocol.
Santa’s sleigh cannot hold everything at one time. In fact, a believer asked Santa just they other day just how much “stuff” Santa’s sleigh can hold and Santa told him that his sleigh could hold enough stuff “for about a whole typical school’s worth of people” at one time. That means Santa’s sleigh has to be constantly refilled as he flies around the world.
That effort usually happens every Christmas Eve and we even report on it now and then on the Tracking Santa Around the World Radio Show.
Normally, the transfer of completed presents from the North Pole begins in August. They just got started on it right after Thanksgiving. So while we note with precision just how far behind the Workshop is we really don’t know how far behind the effort is to move things into position for Santa on Christmas Eve.
While they are working on an estimate everyone at the North Pole knows there is a big need for speed – and that big need is only going to get bigger.
To help understand the nature of this issue better please listen to the North Pole Radio News report in the player above.
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Thank you, Elf Harold, and Elves Frank, Crash, and Westover! If the toys delivered are behind schedule for other places except the North Pole, how about stacking them on the Navy? I wonder how many round trips the delivery sleigh makes every day and on Christmas Eve. The reindeer lungs are as strong as Santa’s A team reindeer. I pray all the elves, the sleigh pilots, and the reindeer are healthy and fly safely.
I look forward to hear what surprise they will make us.
Happy December and Merry Christmas! 🦌🛷🎁⛴🤞🌟😊