Couple Jim Glaub and Dylan Parker have been warned about their Manhattan apartment address by previous tenants. Letters to Santa usually get delivered to their place by mistake and it has been going on for years.
Jim Glaub, who was first to move into the house, learned that none of the letters have been replied to, so he did the same thing when he got the letters to Santa. "I'd get three letters and I didn't really think anything of it," he told People. "I was like, 'Oh, sorry - wrong number.'"
After Jim Glaub married Dylan Parker, he started to notice that the number of letters to Santa grew. In 2010, the couple received 450 and most of it came from nearby cities in New York. They didn't know how the post office could mistake their address but Jim Glaub decided it was time to do something about it.
Returning the letters to the post office wasn't an option. "If we bring them back to the post office, are all the kids getting a letter back with 'Return to Sender'?" Jim Glaub told New York Times. "I don't want that to happen," he said.
So with the help of some friends, the couple took their cause to social media with the idea that perhaps someone would be willing to grant the gift wishes in the Santa letters. That year, 150 children received their Christmas presents.
But every year since, the couple have been spearheading the drive to answer the letters to Santa. This has spawned a Facebook group, Miracle on 22nd Street. It has been sustained even as the couple has since moved to London. They have made arrangements with the new tenant of the New York apartment regarding the letters to Santa, according to New Now Next.
Volunteers would ask Jim Glaub and Dylan Parker for a letter to sponsor but the couple admitted that it's not always the case. According to Scary Mommy, the couple recently stressed out over finding people to become sponsors only days before Christmas. But the spirit of the holidays always brings miracles.
Jim Glaub no longer wonders about the mistake at the post office and just believes in how much doing this selfless gesture has changed their lives. "You don't think about it, you just give," his partner Dylan said.
