由于新冠肺炎疫情肆虐,今年美国邮政总局的“圣诞老人行动”将全部转移到网上。全美各地的人们都可以在网上阅读圣诞愿望邮件,匿名送出礼物,当一回在线版圣诞老人,为疫情中的圣诞节增加一些节日的快乐和温情。 freestocks@freestocks/unsplash 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。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。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。 sift :vt./vi.筛选 With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, however, the US Postal Service announced Monday that it was taking its annual “Operation Santa” campaign nationwide, and that letters to Santa could be read exclusively online by people across …
CNN — In its 108th year, the US Postal Service’s annual “Operation Santa” letter writing campaign is going digital – and expanding nationwide – to adapt to the ongoing pandemic. Over the last 108 years, the USPS has received hundreds of thousands of letters as part of the “Operation Santa” program, Frum said. USPS first launched an online pilot of …