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Australia Post Santa Letter (2026) — Send a Letter to Santa from Australia

Australia Post Santa letter program — how to send a letter to Santa from Australia, the North Pole 9999 address, mailing deadline, and how to get a reply.

Last verified against Australia Post sources: May 2026

Santa's address in Australia

Santa Claus North Pole 9999 Australia

Copy the address exactly — extra punctuation or missing lines can route the letter to the wrong sorting office.

Mailing deadline

Early-to-mid December

Reply rate

high

Postage required

Yes

Reply languages

English

What makes this program different

→Australia Post runs an annual Letters to Santa program — postcode 9999 routes mail to the Santa response team.
→Standard domestic stamp required (Australia Post doesn't waive postage like Canada Post does).
→Replies typically arrive before Christmas Eve if mailed by the published cutoff.
→Santa might mention the beach. He swaps the heavy coat for shorts here.

While you wait for Santa's reply

Once the letter is mailed, the wait begins. On Christmas Eve, you can watch Santa fly his sleigh through Australia in real time on our free Santa tracker. It's a privacy-first simulation that runs in your browser, no signup, no tracking — and we've been refining it for years.

A short history of the Australia Santa letter program

Australia Post's Santa Mail program has run since the early 1980s as a quiet seasonal service that didn't get a national push until 1998, when postcode 9999 was officially assigned. Before that, posties at individual offices took it upon themselves to write replies — a tradition that still shapes the modern program's friendly, hand-finished feel.

Postcode 9999 doesn't correspond to any real Australian location. It's a routing trick — the four 9s flag the letter as Santa mail and send it to a dedicated processing team that handles the seasonal volume, which now sits well over a hundred thousand letters a year.

Australia Post partners with the Salvation Army for an additional layer: kids can request a reply, and families in need can also flag for support. Replies arrive on official Santa Mail stationery in time for Christmas if posted by early December, with the cutoff published fresh on auspost.com.au each November.

What kids in Australia traditionally ask for

🎁Aussie wishlists include cricket gear, footy boots (AFL or NRL depending on state), boogie boards, and pool toys. Christmas is summer holidays — half the gifts are outdoor.
🎁Lego, Bluey merchandise, and Minecraft loot are perennial. Bluey in particular has rewritten the under-7 wishlist over the last few years.
🎁Aussie kids leave Santa a beer (or a cold glass of water) and a slice of pavlova or shortbread, plus a carrot for the reindeer. The North Pole's heating bill must be terrifying after Australia.
🎁Christmas lunch is often a seafood barbecue — prawns, ham, mango — and kids sometimes mention this in their letters, partly as a heads-up that Santa can skip the heavy fruit cake at their house.

Sample letter template (Australia)

A starting point — change the names, the gift list, and the kind thing you did this year. Santa likes specifics over generic wish lists.

English

Dear Santa,

My name is [name] and I'm [age] years old. I live in [town, state].

I've tried really hard to be good this year. I [something specific — helped Mum in the garden, looked after the dog, was nice to my sister].

For Christmas I would love:
- [main wish]
- [smaller wish]
- [small wish]

I'll leave you a cold drink and some shortbread on the kitchen bench, plus a carrot for the reindeer. It's hot down here so don't wear the heavy coat!

Love,
[name]

PS: My address is [address] so the elves can send a reply.