>'Operation Santa' online
'圣诞老人行动'转至线上
For more than a century, it was a simple way of making a child's dreams come true during Christmas.
一个多世纪以来，这一直是让孩子们在圣诞节梦想成真的一种简单方法。
Volunteers could go to the post office, sift through piles of letters that children had sent to Santa Claus and pick one - or more - that tugged at their heartstrings.
志愿者可以去邮局，从孩子们寄给圣诞老人的一堆堆信件中挑出一封或多封感动他们的信件。
Gifts were then acquired, wrapped and shipped to families whose space beneath the tree might otherwise be bare.
然后他们会收集礼物，包装好，运送到那些圣诞树下可能空无一物的家庭。
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, however, the US Postal Service announced recently that it was taking its annual "Operation Santa" campaign nationwide, and that letters to Santa could be read exclusively online by people across the country.
然而，随着新冠疫情的肆虐，美国邮政总局近日宣布，一年一度的"圣诞老人行动"今年将在全美各地开展，寄给圣诞老人的信件将由全美各地的人们在网上阅读。
This year, the letters will be uploaded to the Operation Santa website, so long as they are legible and make specific requests for items like toys, clothes or games.
今年，只要内容清晰可读，并提出具体的礼物要求，如玩具、衣服或游戏等，这些信件将被上传到"圣诞老人行动"网站上。
Starting Dec 4, postal customers can then read them and choose to send gifts with their responses, with a signature saying it's from Santa.
从12月4日开始，邮政客户可以阅读这些邮件，并选择将回信连同礼物一起寄出去，并签上圣诞老人的大名。
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