Santa's logistics challenge | Bangkok Post: business

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Celebrating Christmas in a Buddhist country like Thailand requires advance planning, flexibility and a good imagination. However, even though Thais do not take a holiday _ Christmas would have to be the most enthusiastically celebrated festive event of the year. In fact throughout Southeast Asia _ the Christmas supply chains have not only been stocking up with good will but in supplying the thousands of tonnes of decorations, artificial trees, tinsel, coloured lights, Santa costumes and artificial snow. With presents under the tree and unable to wait any longer, Christmas this year is a very special time to have a well-deserved break and put behind us a year of tragedy, floods, earthquakes and cyclones.

Now let us see if there is some logic behind all this talk of Christmas.

The logistics of Santa's delivery service