Flight Command just issued an update for us and they would like a fresh Local Christmas Report from all areas of Sector 2.
The report can be found at this link.
We have had good steady reports the last couple of days. Please keep up the good work!
Flight Command is requesting – rather insistently and urgently — that trackers in our northern areas please send in updated Weather Reports right away. This directly has to do with flights supporting the Kringle Plan.
What are northern areas? Just about any area that can get snow at this time of year. So, Siberia, Northern Russia, parts of Northern China, etc. Areas such as India, Thailand, etc don’t need to worry.
From the sounds of it, we can expect a lot of these kinds of requests over the next couple of weeks.
Please check in daily.
Do you and your friends want a visit from Santa this Christmas? You should get them on the Santa Map as soon as possible.
The Santa Map is a resource Santa will be using on his sleigh this year. From it he can tell where to deliver.
It’s simple and on it you can designate if you are an elf or just a believer, not that that matters for Santa to visit.
For those of us in Sector 2 this is very important because we have fewer actual believers in our sector than in others.
Make sure Santa knows where you are!
I guess when I put it out on North Pole Radio News about the Gobble Contest at MyMerryChristmas.com I caused something of a stir. I hear the are getting some good gobbles coming in.
But you know what? I want someone — meaning one of our tracker elves — to WIN!
So I’m going to sweeten the pot here. If you go and enter the Gobble Contest at MyMerryChristmas.com all you need to do is in the box where they ask for your name on the Merry Forums just put in your elf name. That way we will know you’re coming from SantaTrackers.net.
If one of our elves wins the Gobble Contest I will provide prizes in SantaTrackers.net swag – we’re talking buttons, pins, coasters, stickers, etc.
What do you do?
Just follow the instructions. Record yourself gobbling and upload it at MyMerryChristmas.com. That’s all you gotta do. They even have a toll free number there that you can call to record your gobble. So just call on the phone and gobble away.
I have a feeling we’ve got some real good turkeys among us. I want show folks what Christmas spirit can do and I think the tracker elves of the world can be the ones to show it.
Go gobble – I want to send out some prizes!
Click here to go to the contest.
We just posted the news at SantaUpdate.com about Thanksgiving and it immediately triggered a request from North Pole Flight Command.
This is for all trackers in every sector:
PLEASE SUBMIT A DAILY WEATHER REPORT, INCLUDING AT LEAST A THREE-DAY FORECAST, FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH.
This is where you can find the weather report.
We can expect to see a lot of sleighs in the skies for the next week. Elves will be moving all over the world in order to get home for Thanksgiving. With the weather being forecast in the extreme at the North Pole, they will be looking to give elves a little more time to get home in between weather events. While North Pole Flight Command is monitoring the weather at the North Pole, they need reports from everywhere else to help these elves return home for Thanksgiving.
Just as we do with Santa on Christmas Eve, our reports now can help keep these elves safe.
Please plan to do a DAILY weather report from your area between now and the Sunday following Thanksgiving.
If you have questions feel free to ask them in the comments below.
North Pole Flight Command is reporting that sleigh sighting reports have spiked from tracker elves in nearly every sector over the past month.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Elf Wilbur Boeing, a flight analyst at Flight Command. “Freelance elf reports seem to be dominating this trend and they appear to be coming from a lot of coastal areas, such as the Pacific Coast of Canada, the USA and Mexico. That makes sense because that’s the flight corridor to the North Pole for inbound traffic.”
Elf Pinky of Sector 5 says the reports coming in from trackers are “off the charts” for October. She says the sleigh sighting reports are plentiful but she also reports robust activity with weather, roof and local Christmas reports.
Likewise in Sector 1, which largely has seen reporting increase from the South China Sea to the North Pacific – another popular flight corridor, Elf Randi says that because of so many sleigh sightings they are also seeing a corresponding increase in tracker elf sign-ups in Sector 1. “What’s happening is that word of these sleighs in the skies is spreading, mostly I think on social media, and as people ask ‘what is that?’ and they learn they are flying sleighs, they naturally get curious about Santa and the work the North Pole does, so they sign up.” Elf Randi said.
The same thing is happening in the Atlantic, according to Elf Rolf, Elf Supervisor for Sector 3 in Europe and Africa. “All this traffic to and from the North Pole in September and October has led to a lot more new elf sign-ups. People are interested. They want to help.”
Elf Flip has promised an update on the total count of tracker elves world wide in the coming days. We will see what impact this has had on all the recruiting numbers for new elves.
Hi Elves!
I have a report I need from all elves in all sectors at this time – a Local Christmas Report. Please go to this link to send it in to your Elf Supervisor.
We are not expecting a huge positive response from this report. But let me tell you why we’re doing this.
North Pole Flight Command has detected a general problem with Christmas spirit, which is not unusual just a couple of weeks out from Halloween. But they are concerned that the Crisis in Santa’s Workshop could be discouraging people about this Christmas season.
So we’re asking for this report now and we will be asking for it again after Halloween. And we may be asking for it several times between now and when Santa launches, especially it concerns about this increase.
We also have the North Pole Post Office watching general feedback as well.
I have asked the Elf Supervisors to keep communication at a minimum unless there are pressing needs. This is a pressing need but I need this information from all Sectors, so instead of five different announcements I am making just this one.
Please continue on with the schedule of reports that your Elf Supervisors have asked for.
I can tell you that we are in good shape for the kinds of reports we are receiving and the number of elves we have working worldwide. If there are new needs you will see announcements either from me or from your Elf Supervisor.
We hope you are keeping informed of the news, listening to the radio news reports and the podcasts, and following North Pole Flight Command developments.
It is only the end of September but I feel compelled to issue an alert for all Santa Trackers world wide.
There is a crisis in Santa’s Workshop and elves from nearly every department at the North Pole are mobilizing to help in the effort. We are equally called upon to join in the effort.
Starting TODAY, I am meeting via Zoom with Elf Supervisors, who are all at their stations at the Regional Tracking Centers. We are going through the latest instructions from North Pole Flight Command.
You can expect some specific instructions coming from each of them over the course of the next couple of days.
In addition, I have asked, and I believe he has already posted on the Elf Wall, for Elf Harold Star to remind you about the North Pole Chat already scheduled at SantaUpdate.com for this Sunday at 3pm EDT.
I hope to have new information and instruction that I can share at that time. As usual, chat recaps will be posted.
I do not yet have details to share at this time but I suspect most of what might be required of us will be added and specific weather reports for certain areas. I believe special missions to route needed supplies to the North Pole are being devised at this time and our instructions will be related to those missions.
What part, if any, Santa will play in these events are unknown. I can tell you, however, that is he very hands on with this whole process and that we can expect to hear more from him about this situation in the days and weeks ahead.
For now, my hope for each of you is that you will:
Thanks!
Fellow Elves and Trackers in the Service of Santa,
It is shaping up to be an interesting season already. While I can report that we are on track with our early reporting in our efforts to track Santa for Santa I can tell you now that more will be asked of us this year.
While I cannot yet share full details of what is going on – that will be coming out soon — I can tell you our need for GOOD elves is growing by the minute.
As such, I have directed our Elf Supervisors today to effect as many elf promotions as possible.
That means that as a Freelance or Junior Tracker elf you can be elevate to full North Pole Elf status and obtain greater status and accessibility on this website just by sending your elf supervisor a message.
I am not entirely sure at this time what more will be asked of us in the Tracking Department. But we want to be ready. To be ready means more elves are trained and ready to serve Santa.
More details will be forthcoming. Those elves able and smart enough to act on this message will be rewarded. We need more good elves.
Hello Elves Everywhere –
Even though I am posting this under Sector 2 I think I am wanting and asking all elves everywhere to read what I am saying.
Each week, at least at this point in the season, the Elf Supervisors hold a video conference call, usually on Thursdays. The call comes at different times for each of us because, of course, we are now in our Regional Tracking Centers, all located in the different time zones. This week’s call had me online at 3am my time – and I didn’t know if I just got up super early or went to bed super late.
But I was soon not sleepy when we started talking about hiring new Sector Leads.
We all need a Sector Lead. Each Elf Supervisor is looking for one. That is because Elf Crash and the other powers that be changed the job of Sector Lead a little bit. So we’re all supposed to hire a new Sector Lead.
I’ve never had one in Sector 2.
On our call this week we talked a bit about some of the candidates that we have and others that we would consider.
For example, finding a Sector lead in my sector has long been a challenge. Santa and Crash both encouraged me to “get creative” in finding one.
The new goal of the Sector Lead is to give them a bigger voice in the sector. That means having them run an outside social media channel to reach out to the world. We want them to bring in new believers and make elves of them.
They want to see more pride in our work in each sector. More team building. Better communication of what we do and why we do it as elves.
I have been have good conversations with an elf in China. He’s a freelance elf because in his country he is not allowed to belong to a website requiring a login. Otherwise, he would be here talking with us on the Elf Wall. He’s really wanting to do it but isn’t allowed to. He sends me one-way messages through the report forms and it has only been recent that I have been able to make contact with him via a social media channel.
I think he would be an excellent Sector Lead. But, he wouldn’t be active here on SantaTrackers.net. I like the idea that he would be using a social media app native to his country and his language. I’m curious how many other elves he could recruit just by trying with others in his same situation.
The other Elf Supervisors suggest I talk to Crash and Santa about him.
Frankly, the other Elf Supervisors were a little envious that I have such a strong and willing candidate. They are all searching for the right kind of elf.
One Elf Supervisor said she got a message from a Junior Tracker Elf wanting to be Sector Lead. That normally wouldn’t be considered but this Junior Elf was here a few years ago and is now just coming back. He knows a lot. The Elf Supervisor would HAVE to promote them to North Pole Tracker Elf to become a Sector Lead and that’s being talked about. Junior Tracker Elves should be looking for any way they can to get promoted.
If you are interested in being an Elf Supervisor, applying in fine. But it wouldn’t hurt for you to just message your Elf Supervisor and plead your case. They are wanting to act soon but they don’t want to put the wrong person in the job.
We’re about halfway through August. Things are starting to get interesting for this season.
Greetings from Christmas Island in Myanmar!
I am happy to report that our Regional Tracking Center is completely up and operational. As a first run of receiving reports, we would like all elves in Sector 2 to submit an Elf Status Report.
This will not only give us a good systems test but it will give us an idea of how many tracker elves out there are on the job and paying attention.
We expect to begin our reporting routine starting on Santa’s deadline date for all Regional Tracking Centers of August 1st. Please be ready for that.
The test flights of Santa’s sleigh have left our sector, so we will have to wait for them to come around again. I suspect we will see them soon.
We are excited for the season ahead and hope you are too!
As you may have heard, Santa declared a very rare Toyvember event – right in the middle of Christmas in July. That’s never been done before.
Naturally, elves all over the world had questions about how that would work for them, including tracker elves in every sector. I finally have some answers for you.
Yes, all trackers, regardless of location or status – freelance, junior trackers, North Pole elves – are all invited to participate.
If you have a toy idea, design or prototype you are encouraged to submit them via a message to your Elf Supervisor.
Please keep your eye on the news. I have a feeling this Toyvember will not last long. I would encourage you to submit your toy invention as soon as you can.
Thanks.
