Santa Claus still gets the most mail, according to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). In 2006 Santa received more than six million letters that are answered by postal workers in 20 countries. Written by children and filled with the most fanciful wishes, these missives are often addressed simply "To Santa, North Pole. "

Postal officials don't know why a Christmas card dated Dec. 23, 1914 just arrived in northwest Kansas. They are puzzled over where the card has been and what delayed the card mailed from Alma Nebraska with insufficient postage and found somewhere in Illinois. The postcard features a colored drawing of Santa Claus and was mailed by cousins to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, Kansas who is now dead. The Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz wanted the card to reach Martin's relatives.

A 200-pound potbellied pig named Romeo is living as a major part of the household of a family in St. Albans, Queens. The part-Vietnamese potbellied, who was bought from a farm in Long Island, was described by the Cummings family to be completely housebroken, and has never brought any complaints from the neighbors. He was reported to consume three pounds of pellet food daily, and is taken for a walk four times a day without a leash.

A man was apprehended by police officials Sunday for riding his bike along the hallways of a motel, hitting two people in the process. Withholding the name of the suspect, police reported that the man was wearing nothing but a pair of swimming trunks as he was zipping down the hallway of the Best Western Soldiers Field Tower and Suites, reported the Associated Press.

Angered because his wife did not buy beer, a man shot one of the family's two pet goats. The man, 48-year old Peter W. Mischler, was said to have come home from a hunting trip, and was enraged to find out that his 22-year old daughter had let the goats out, allowing the animals to make a mess.