UPS Store offers to shred children's letters to Santa Claus in viral tweet
The stress of the busy holiday season appears to be taking its toll on the UPS Store's employees.
The social media account for the retail arm of the shipping giant posted a Grinchy message Sunday reading, "If your child addresses a letter to the North Pole, you can leave it with us. We do shredding."
The post quickly drew the attention of Twitter users who were generally stunned by the company's apparent lack of holiday cheer before being taken down Monday afternoon.
Most of the posts on the company's account show retweets in the single digits. The post offering to shred children's letters to Santa sparked nearly 5,000 retweets.
The UPS Store did not immediately reply to USA TODAY's request for comment.
Here is a sampler of how people responded to the less than jolly holiday message:
Heard the UPS store deleted this tweet after they were visited by 3 ghosts. pic.twitter.com/m3nB2jfg8R
— Alise Morales (@AliseNavidad) December 17, 2018
“And his heart shrunk three sizes that day”
— davepaisley (@davepaisley) December 17, 2018
So I see UPS has a new CEO. pic.twitter.com/KyteVyBl52
— Doug Quixote (@DeTroyes1) December 17, 2018
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/vmuaky7EOA
— Daisy Adair (@BooksRWeapons) December 16, 2018
An intern was fired today at the UPS HQ. I’ll pour a little eggnog out for them. https://t.co/bf8zIG3lsl
— Johnny (Joey) Jones (@Johnny_Joey) December 17, 2018
— Winthrop Chesterton (@IronyNOW) December 17, 2018
Bah humbug @TheUPSStore pic.twitter.com/TOwgKZrN7C
— Tomi @3Boys_OldLady (@3Boys_OldLady) December 17, 2018
— Stephanie Arnold (@MsArnold) December 17, 2018
The UPS Store went dark pic.twitter.com/0CD0XVPcye
— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) December 17, 2018
Who hurt you, UPS? pic.twitter.com/xjNLieD8VB
— Madison Alder (@madialder) December 17, 2018
— claire (@cIairer) December 17, 2018
Or you could do what many @USPS locations do. Mail a letter back from Santa to the child, then mail the children’s letters back to the parents after Christmas. We love our local postal workers!
— Jackie Brown (@TheJackieB) December 17, 2018
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