December 12, 20195:00 AM ET
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Gino’s Deli A San Antonio deli put a decorative mailbox to Santa inside. Now kids drop their letters to Santa and the owner responds.
NOEL KING, HOST:
Good morning. I’m Noel King. Gino’s Deli Stop-N-Buy in San Antonio is a plain old deli most of the time. But last year, owner Aleem Chaudhry put up a decorative Christmas mailbox. The thing is, kids didn’t understand the decorative part. They put present requests and questions for Santa inside. So Chaudhry wrote back, and now it’s a tradition. One curious little girl asked Santa, are you really coming down the chimney? Why don’t you use the front door?
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