NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Old-fashioned mail carriers are delivering hundreds of letters to Santa Claus by horseback this year.

The Nebraska division of the Pony Express recently carried more than 500 letters from Gothenburg to Cozad to help deliver the letters to the North Pole.

Rider Wayne Gronewold says the Pony Express group gives Gothenburg residents the chance to send their Santa letters via horseback.