WHILE most children are gearing up to send their Christmas wishlists off to the North Pole, a little boy in the U.K. was busy penning a more somber type of letter — one to his father in heaven.

Teri Copland wrote on Facebook that her 7-year-old son, Jase, recently asked her if he could send a note to his late father, James Hyndman, via the Royal Mail, a British courier firm.

“Mr. Postman,” the handwritten envelope read. “Can you please take this to heaven for my dad’s birthday, thanks.”

The boy’s mother dutifully sent the letter, not expecting any sort of response — but she said what her son received in return “restored (her) faith in humanity.”

Jase was sent a letter by Sean Milligan, an office manager at the Royal Mail on Nov. 28, explaining that the letter he sent to his father had been delivered.

“I just wanted to take this opportunity to contact you about how we succeeded in the delivery of your letter, to your dad in heaven,” Milligan wrote to the young boy. “This was a difficult challenge avoiding stars and other galactic objects on route to heaven. However, please be assured that this particular of mail has been delivered.”

“I know how important your mail is to you. I will continue to do all I can to ensure delivery to heaven safely,” the note concluded.(SD-Agencies)

Facebook to share her gratitude over the kind gesture. At the time of publication, her post has already been shared over 250,000 times and racked up nearly 50,000 comments from people around the world.

“A few weeks ago my 7 year old [sic] son posted this card to his dad in heaven and today he got a lovely reply from the postman,” she wrote on Facebook. “I actually cannot state how emotional he is knowing his dad got his card... you didn’t have to make the effort to do this you could have just ignored it but the fact that yous [sic] have made the effort for a little boy you’ve never met is such a lovely thing to do.”

“Royal Mail you’ve just restored my faith in humanity and thank you it honestly means the world to him please share this so all the staff at Royal Mail know just how greatful [sic] we are,” she added.

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The infant’s mother was breastfeeding him at their home in the city of Agra when the animal entered the house and grabbed him, the family said.

The monkey dropped the badly bitten child on a neighbour’s roof after locals gave chase to the animal.

The baby died of his injuries in hospital. Locals say monkey attacks in the area are growing more frequent.

The baby’s uncle, Dhirendra Kumar, told the BBC that the family was heartbroken.

“There are too many monkeys in the area. We live in fear. We have told the administration so many times to help us but they haven’t done anything. The mother of the baby is too distraught to even speak,” he said.

Pushpa Devi, the child’s grandmother said the family would “never recover” from the loss and people are living in fear of monkeys

“I have lost my grandson. Just a few hours before the monkey attacked our baby, I had him in my arms. Our baby didn’t have to die. People will talk about it for a while and then forget it. But we have to live with the reality that our baby is gone,” she said.

Ajay Kaushal, the officer in charge of the nearby police station, told the Reuters news agency that the baby had been badly mauled.

“The monkey bit the infant’s head and only dropped him when people chased it with sticks and threw stones at it,” he said

This is the latest incident in a series of monkey attacks in Agra, which is also home to India’s most famous monument, the Taj Mahal. Two months earlier, a toddler was attacked by monkeys and is recovering in hospital.

In May, two tourists were attacked at the Taj Mahal.

“Monkeys are everywhere in Agra,” Shravan Kumar Singh, a local environmental activist told Reuters.

Locals say monkeys can be seen on almost every street in Agra

“They come in search of food, but they snatch and attack as well.”

Singh said monkeys were becoming more aggressive as a result of being displaced from their natural habitats, which have been destroyed by the expanding city.

Some local organisations have been calling for monkeys to be sterilised and excluded from wildlife protection legislation, he added.

(SD-Agencies)