Trackers of Sector 1 – things are definitely picking up. I need to know who’s working and who is not right now. Please update your Elf Status as soon as you can.
I strong urge you as well to become familiar with all our tracker reports. I think we’re going to be sending in a few public observance reports, air traffic reports, and local Christmas reports in the next few weeks.
Don’t forget the weekly weather report.
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.
Hello trackers in Europe and Africa,
North Pole Flight Command is asking for an updated Local Christmas Report from our sector. I’m not sure why, but let’s get it to them.
Like Sector 5, we can report very active new tracker elf signups over the past week. Welcome to all of our new trackers! Please go to Elf University to learn and let me know if you have any questions.
Like the other supervisors, I was in the meeting yesterday on the phone with Elf Crash and Elf Roger Star. I am not confident yet that we will be seeing either the test flights or extra sleighs that are part of the Kringle Plan in Europe and Africa. I am hoping to meet with Elf Z today who might be able to give me specifics for our sector.
Please stand by for more news.
Thanks!
As others have been sharing today we had a conference call with Elf Crash and Elf Roger earlier. For us there is a little more complexity because we have test flights of Santa’s sleigh going on in our sector and now a lot of freighter sleighs are coming.
Why are they headed our way? Well, we’re Sector 1. We’re first. I think the strategy in Flight Command and Santa’s Workshop is to get the early sectors squared away first.
So that means we have the possibility of seeing sleighs in our skies right now.
They are concerned with air traffic in certain areas:
If you are in any of those areas we need an air traffic report from you when you can.
Do NOT forget the weekly weather reports.
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.
Elves, it looks like things are heating up for us in Sector 4. We had a conference call a while ago with Elf Crash and we heard as well from Elf Roger during our meeting. Reindeer and sleighs are headed our way soon.
That being the case, I need know who is working right now. Please send in an Elf Status Report as soon as you can. I’m expecting instructions soon.
Elf Crash seemed very serious today.
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.
About a month ago I posted a request of a Local Christmas Report from tracker elves around the world. The response to that request was very good.
Four weeks since I made that request we know a little more about the state of Christmas around the world. What you reported has raised some concerns at North Pole Flight Command and with Santa Claus.
After a lot of meetings this week, some Zoom calls with Santa, and discussing things with the Elf Supervisors, I am asking, on behalf of Santa, for all tracker elves to step up at this time and do some “above and beyond the call of duty” kind of things right now.
First, we need you to do that Local Christmas Report as soon as you can. We need to see if things are the same or if things have changed.
Second, we would like all tracker elves — North Pole Tracker Elves, Junior Tracker Elves and Freelance Tracker Elves — to please submit a Public Observance Report as soon as you can.
Please understand the difference between these reports. It was reported via the Elf Supervisors that some wayward elves have taken upon themselves to use this report in the wrong way. (They were using it to “snitch” on others and “report them to the naughty list”, which is silly because there is NO naughty list).
When Santa sends trackers out to observe that’s what they are doing. They are watching, not spying. You’re not looking to see anything wrong. You’re just looking and reporting on what you see. Santa wants honesty. But he doesn’t want an elf anywhere thinking they have the right to opine on someone’s behavior.
With the Public Observance Report Santa is not looking for information about one person. He wants to know about large groups of people where you’re reporting from.
I would also tell you that Santa has big concerns about the next month of operations and even bigger concerns about his flight this year. He is asking for all tracker elves to RECRUIT as many new elves as you possibly can. North Pole Flight Command agrees that more eyes out there working to track Santa for Santa are going to be useful when Santa launches.
If you are a new elf, and there are many, we ask that you go to Elf University and learn as much as you can. Then go to the Elf Wall and ask questions of the elves that are there. Please do the standard reports for your area: Roof Report, Chimney Inspection and Landing Zone Report. Be sending in Weather Reports at least weekly.
This is our critical period. We need tracker elves to increase their activity as soon as possible.
Elf Bernard was in North Pole Chat yesterday and he created a lot of discussions among tracker elves for his comments about how tracking Santa for Santa will be different this year.
In this episode of the North Pole Podcast Elf Frank Myrrh talked with Elf Crash Murphy, the International Director of Santa Trackers. They discussed Elf Bernard and why he is a misunderstood elf.
The movie “The Santa Claus”, by Disney, has a character called Elf Bernard who just happens to be the head elf in Santa’s workshop. That movie came out in 1994.
The REAL Elf Bernard who is the head elf in Santa’s workshop has worked for decades longer than that movie has been out. Some of our oldest site users can remember that (we have been publishing online since 1991 and for years we sent the Santa Updates out by fax, many of them featuring stories about Elf Bernard).
Elf Crash discusses what life has been life for the real Elf Bernard since the movie came out. And it hasn’t been entirely pleasant.
More importantly, Elf Crash addresses why Elf Bernard said tracking Santa for Santa would be different this year. If you are a tracker elf or are thinking of becoming one this episode of the North Pole Podcast is very interesting.
Elf Crash says that if you have comments or questions from this podcast you can comment here or over in the Elf Community at SantaTrackers.net.
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.
