Several weeks ago we were alerted to the fact that Santa will be addressing the tracker elf community about Tracking Santa this year and that he wanted your questions. This is a reminder that there is still time to send in those questions.
Elf Crash will be in North Pole Chat before Christmas too and he wants to address some of those questions, especially if Santa doesn’t have time to address them all.
You can submit your questions at this link.
Thanks!
We want to send a big welcome to new tracker elves in Sector 5. This weekend has been a record breaker. Especially with freelance tracker elf sign-ups.
We want you to be prepared for tracking Santa for Santa. Do not wait until December 23rd the check in. We need tracker elf work done now.
Elf Crash Murphy and Elf Roger Star of Flight Command met with us by telephone earlier today. There is a lot going on and you need to know it all.
Begin by researching your job at Elf University.
Then go read the news at SantaUpdate.com, NorthPoleFlightCommand.com and right here on SantaTrackers.net.
Feel free to message me with any questions.
Oh – and don’t forget to visit North Pole Chat today at 3pm EST if you are available.
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.
After waiting for what felt like forever in hearing back from Elf Crash and Santa, I can now officially announce we have a new Sector Lead in Sector 5.
Elf NotJack, who has several years experience tracking Santa for Santa, will be our sector lead as he gear up for this season. She will be helping new elves, promoting the recruitment of elves and sharing news on social media, and helping me to get the word out on news and events that affect tracker elves in Sector 5.
I’m very excited to have someone so capable. She’s smart, she’s savvy, she’s alert, aware and dedicated to the cause of Santa Claus. Girl power in Sector 5!!!
(Sorry, guys. I’m just teasing).
Both Santa and Elf Crash heartily endorsed Elf NotJack. Santa said this was a very wise choice and he’s excited to have so much experience at the lead in Sector 5. Elf Crash said he could endorse my selection of Elf NotJack “with both hands high in the air”.
It is a great moment in Sector 5. Please join me in welcoming her to her new elf job.
The Elf rush is on — meaning we’re getting bombarded with new elf activity.
So…this post is mostly going out to those who are new. You long-term stalwart North Pole Elves might not learn anything new from this post. For those of you helping the new elves on the Elf Wall, thank you! You will likely see more new elves there as we are approving them as fast as we can.
If you are new, let’s catch up a little bit. Your main job as a tracker elf is to provide local information to North Pole Flight Command that will be useful to Santa when he flies on Christmas Eve.
Most tracker by now have done roof reports, chimney inspections and loads of weather reports. If you haven’t done any reporting yet, do those reports first.
The other reports will come in time as we get closer to launch.
Now, and this is for all elves, we need a fresh Local Christmas Report. We suspect, when it comes to Christmas, things look different than they did a few weeks ago. This report will tell us.
And lastly, I’m pleased to announced that I will be announcing very soon about our new Sector Lead. I have just a few details to attend to before I can make that official. Please stand by for news.
Thanks, Elves!
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.
Boy, what a day it has been. Meetings, phone calls, Zoom meetings – we have just had it all going on.
Basically it all boils down to this, gang: this crisis in Santa’s workshop is changing the face of tracking Santa for Santa this year. I’m still trying to figure out how it is going to do that but I can tell you that Santa suddenly had big concerns about how many active QUALITY tracker elves we have this year.
Remember last year when Crash told us it didn’t matter how many elves we have? Remember when Elf Moe and Santa said we’d rather focus on quality elves rather than having a bunch of elves.
Well, that was last year.
This year is different.
The other Elf Supervisors might be speaking to this soon too. They were in all the meetings and all the calls. The message wasn’t just for me.
But don’t kid yourself. We’re the biggest sector and during most of these meetings I felt like Santa was talking directly to me.
We’re the target guys. We’re the last sector he delivers to. We’re the biggest sector he delivers to. This whole workshop thing is going to affect us the most. Mark it down right now. Christmas Eve has the potential to be really hairy tracking Santa.
Every North Pole Department is on this problem. And every one of those departments all say the same thing: Sector 5, Sector 5, Sector 5.
So, for whatever is coming for this year we need more elves for it. A. LOT. MORE. ELVES.
How many? Santa said he’d be checking in on me about the numbers.
That being said, right now, we’re at about 6 million verified trackers of different types – independent, North Pole and Junior Trackers – and we’re going to need MILLIONS more in Sector 5.
So…it is time to start talking to your family and friends. Seek out believers first. Start talking to them about the situation at Santa’s Workshop. Tell them that Santa needs our help this year. Help them understand that you will teach them how to track Santa for Santa.
In the meantime, I’ll try to figure out what kind of final figure Santa has in mind.
Thank you.
Hi Gang,
Right now we are kind of in a holding pattern with Flight Command. I’ve asked them for clear direction of how we can help them and they keep telling me to just wait.
All the sleigh flight activity that’s not related to the test flights of Santa’s sleigh so far seems to be in Canada – most specifically in the Yukon, which is pretty sparsely populated. That’s also a land of a lot of lumber and it is told to me that wood is coming from there to supply Santa’s Workshop.
That is a place and that is a product that moves regardless of the weather. They do have plenty of early winter weather there and Flight Command knows all about it.
If that changes, I’ll let you know.
But for now, Sector 5 is going to focus on our regular work.
So – if you haven’t done roof reports and chimney inspections yet please close that up. And keep the weekly weather reports coming from your area.
Thanks, Elves!
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!
I cannot speak for any of the other Elf Supervisors but since made the announcement about promotions yesterday I have been flooded with questions. Let me see if I can make this more clear for elves in Sector 5.
First of all, if you want added responsibility as an elf, I want to streamline the process. Especially for all of our new Junior Tracker Elves. It is as simple as this:
If you want to be a North Pole Elf, just send me a message telling me that. Elf Moe has promised I can instantly promote you.
Because of this, I need a lot more Elf Trainers. If we will have new elves with the ability to get on the Elf Wall, we will need other North Pole elves to show them what to do and to help them out. If you are an experienced North Pole Elf and want this responsibility, just send me a message.
I would also remind you that I still need a Sector Lead in our sector. This is a big job and it isn’t for every elf, especially a new elf. I need an experienced elf to be my right hand this year. If you qualify and want that responsibility, please let me know.
Many of you have written is saying you’re willing to do anything. I’m thinking it over now and will be messaging you in the days ahead privately to discuss special jobs or missions I have in mind for you.
Thank you for your many responses. Keep them coming!
