EVERY year children write letters to Santa in the North Pole with their Christmas wish lists.

The tradition is part of the magic of the festive season - but it seems postal company UPS didn’t get that memo.

And it seems Scrooge himself is in charge of the postal giant's official Twitter @TheUPSStore after a tweet about the firm shredding the letters that Santa needs to see went viral.

It said: “If your child addresses a letter to the North Pole, you can leave it with us.

“We do shredding.”

Needless to say, people are horrified.

The tweet caused such a stir it has since been removed but parents have lashed out at the company.

Their CEO has been compared to the Grinch, while others tweeted: “Who hurt you?”

One person wrote: “RIP Social Media Manager of The UPS Store.

“You will be missed.”

And a third tweeted UPS: “Shredding one dream at a time.”

The company has since issued a response, claiming it was only meant to be a joke.

Staci Reidinger, public relations and social media manager for the company, told BuzzFeed: “We do a lot of puns that have second - or third-level meanings in our posts. We thought this was going to be one of those.

“We did not want to take away from the magic of Christmas.

"[The tweet] was just to get people laughing."