>>17126779actually i started doing the math and the math does not check out and i forgot what else i was going to say because i have literal brain damage but i'll just just the discarded scraps
essentially i was going to say some shit about how santas like a pro chess player optimizing his routes because people open presents at different times and the international date line and his magic sleigh isnt infinite so he has to make trips back to the north pole while doing deliveries but one of the more pivotal bits was going to be about how on the delivery day during his deliveries he also tells the elves which gifts are needed and if they need more because itd be wasteful for the elves time and effort to stockpile more gifts than they need and the demand for specific gifts dramatically drops over time and even if elves took an average of 1 second to make a gift itd take them too long to make all the gifts for everyone in the world but even assuming it takes a whopping 5 seconds per gift on average and santa having only 1 million elves itd only take about half a day to make 10 billion gifts since most people who get gifts get more than 1 and a lot of people get way more than 1 so even considering the people who dont celebrate christmas i think the 10 billion gifts due on christmas is a fair guess, maybe even low
but yea they can anticipate most gifts way ahead of time so they probably only need to make a couple million on demand on christmas eve, though that ties into santa's discretion on gifts which is a whole nother can of worms
anyway heres some of the retarded stuff on the cutting room floor for this and the previous post
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and remember most kids dont write to santa and he doesnt use computers
as we all know santa personally manages all of that stuff himself: he sees you when youre sleeping, he knows when you're awake and so forth