Tracking Santa Status Report

Good day, elves!

I am pleased to update you on the status of the Tracking Santa for Santa program. This is the first of a series of weekly updates that I will be posting each Sunday. You will see a breakout report for each sector going forward to be posted by your elf supervisor on an assigned day of the week.

Before these reports are posted I review the data with Santa and receive direction from him. That information is shared with the Elf Supervisors late Saturday evening. After receiving that information it is reviewed by each supervisor, who then has a conference call privately with Santa for specific direction.

As of Saturday, November 19th, 2022, here is the status of elves worldwide:

North Pole Tracker Elves: 71,698
Freelance Tracker Elves: 8,606,898

Total Elves Tracking Santa for Santa: 8,678,596

From this pool of trained, professional and mostly-remote located volunteers we have, year to date, received the following reports as requested from Elf Supervisors and North Pole Flight Command:

Reports from North Pole Tracker Elves: 105,600,216
Reports from Freelance Tracker Elves: 133,794,567

Total worldwide tracker reports so far received: 239,394,783

This puts us at roughly 24% to goal for the year. Considering the date on the calendar, the number of days left until Santa launches, and the anticipated growth in the recruitment of elves over the next 30+ days, we believe these efforts to on track.

We can also report the status of the following important elements of Operation Merry Christmas associated with Tracking Santa for Santa:

North Pole Flight Command: To date, NPFC has a fully operational 24-hour command center located at the North Pole. Regional support locations have been established and are now operational in the following locations:

• Sector 1: Wiseman’s Creek, Australia
• Sector 2: Bethlehem, Palestine
• Sector 3: Bethlehem, South Africa
• Sector 4: Milagro, Ecuador
• Sector 5: Mistletoe, Kentucky, USA

North Pole Navy: In addition, extensions of Flight Command and support for sleigh operations have been launched through the North Pole Navy with ships deployed in the following locations:

• SS Jingle Bell – Pacific Ocean
• SS Snowball – Artic Ocean
• SS Tannenbaum – Indian Ocean
• SS Donner – Northern Atlantic Ocean
• SS Eggnog – Southern Atlantic Ocean
• SS Mistletoe – Coral Sea
• SS Frosty – Antarctic Ocean

Santa’s Reindeer: Santa’s reindeer are all accounted for and healthy. The entire team is presently located at the North Pole. They are engaged in training for the Reindeer Games, scheduled to begin soon.

Santa’s Sleigh: Santa’s sleigh design for 2022 has been under rigorous testing since July. A brief break in test flight operations is scheduled for Thanksgiving. Immediately after Thanksgiving test flight teams will be redeployed to test Version 9 of Santa’s sleigh, presently planned over the skies of the Pacific in Sector 1.

Santa’s Feedback (from Santa himself)

Friends, thank you for your willingness to serve the cause of Operation Merry Christmas. This week, immediately following Thanksgiving festivities, we officially launch Operation Merry Christmas. This is the flight phase of our mission and it very much involves each and every one of you. Your elf supervisor will be posting direction and needs for your area. Please pay attention and from this point forward plan to visit each day to learn of news and assignments. The detail in the information you provide I find extremely useful. We started out this year making an effort to improve information that would support my visits. That effort has already paid off. What happens over the next 30+ days is critical to the mission. So please do not let up and please report as you are asked. I am very pleased with the overall effort and I feel that we are in a good position to have a successful run this year. Thank you and Merry Christmas. – Santa

This is my report for this first week. Future reports will not be as lengthy.

Thank you.

About this Elf: Elf Roger Star

Roger is an experienced sleigh pilot, designer and flight engineer who has worked the past 42 years as a flight supervisor in the Tracking Department at the North Pole. Previous to that Roger served as a designer in the Research and Development Department during the crucial years of 1947-1974, an era known for breakout designs in Santa’s sleigh that broke long standing speed records. Roger was the lead designer of Santa’s 1968 sleigh, famous for surviving a brutal blizzard in Bavaria. Elf Roger led the tracker elf as International Director of Santa Trackers from its inception as a pilot program in 2016 until 2023. He is now director of North Pole Flight Command.