RUMFORD – Scot Grassette thinks Santa will have plenty of help from his elves when a 63-pound, 24- by 131-foot letter arrives at the North Pole later this month.

The letter – Grassette’s idea to raise money for the Mountain Valley High School majorettes and perhaps put Rumford in the Guinness Book of World records for the world’s largest missive – was mailed from the local post office at 4:30 p.m. Monday.

The dispatch, printed to scale with 10-inch letters on a huge coated sheet of paper from NewPage Corp., includes requests from 495 Rumford-area people who came to the high school Saturday to make their wishes to Santa known, enjoy a magic show, food, an auction and other fundraising events.

He said the top request was for world peace, followed by dolls, and trucks or cars. A few adults among those who contributed to the letter to Santa asked not to be laid off from their jobs. NewPage plans a large round of layoffs later this month.

Grassette said nearly $5,000 was raised.

Majorettes Rachel Boudreau, co-captain, and Kaitlyn Grassette, captain, along with Town Manager Len Greaney, selectmen’s Chairman Arthur Boivin, Grassette, U.S. Postal Service spokesman from the Portland office Tom Rizzo, and Rumford Post Office Postmaster Tony Glazier helped attach 288 first class Nutcracker stamps, costing $120.96, onto the letter’s box.

“I’ve called the North Pole and Santa knows it’s coming,” he said.

The letter was mailed to North Pole, Alaska, official site of the hundreds of thousands of letters that are mailed to Santa each year.

The magnitude of the attempt to create the world’s largest letter made “Good Morning, America” on Monday, The Boston Globe, and many local newspapers.

All the documentation for what Grassette hopes will present a successful case for the designation of “The World’s Largest Single Sheet Paper Letter” ever sent, was also mailed to the Guinness Book of World Records.

If it is accepted, it will be a new entry in the famed book of the biggest, smallest, longest, most unusual anything people have the imagination to create.

The high school’s majorettes devoted nearly six hours to writing all the requests on the letter Saturday.

Rizzo took lots of photos of the letter mailing Monday afternoon. He said many good stories happen throughout the year involving the postal service. The letter to Santa is one of the most unusual and heartwarming. The photos will be shared with other postal employees.

A letter to Santa is nostalgic, Grassette and others said.

Greaney was impressed with some of the messages on the letter. Some asked for a cancer cure, and many were of a religious nature.

The majorettes and Grassette hope the post office in the North Pole will use the letter as a fundraiser as well.

Whether the letter makes it into the Guinness Book of World Records won’t be known for weeks or months, Grassette said.