Christmas card/christmas card

I like to mail my one brother and my good friends a surprise package if I have the time to do it. We don’t regularly exchange gifts, which makes it a surprise. One friend sent me a package containing one soursop fruit one year!

As far as the mass mailings of cards, my wife takes care of it, thankfully!
 
I used to have this long list of people I had to send a card. Some of those people I hadn't seen in 30-40 years, but I got a card from them. I tried E-cards, but you had to use your E-address. That was back in the time when you emailed jokes to each other. No way was Uncle Eddy going to get my Email address, again- 20+ emails/day. Finally, I thought if I don't know if you're alive or dead, why am I sending you a card?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I used to have this long list of people I had to send a card. Some of those people I hadn't seen in 30-40 years, but I got a card from them. I tried E-cards, but you had to use your E-address. That was back in the time when you emailed jokes to each other. No way was Uncle Eddy going to get my Email address, again- 20+ emails/day. Finally, I thought if I don't know if you're alive or dead, why am I sending you a card?
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I keep a separate "junkmail" address just for such things. I can dump the lot with one click.
 
It makes a bunch of money for the card producers .. I'm out.

I call my 1/2 sister or she calls me, same with my remaining female friend, she calls, or I do depends on who thinks of it first.

My one living male friend usually comes by brings me a bottle of Crown [ he knows i have beer] We exchange merry Christmas & have a-bit of Christmas cheer.
 
We've gone, more and more, to e-cards. I like Jacquie Lawson cards from the U.K. The selection is very good. I only send one card through the post, to Australia.
 
I still send them, apart from a few 'special' Christmas cards, I buy them in the January sales, with the rising cost of postage, the stamps cost more than the cards, but most of mine are hand delivered to friends and neighbours
 
jet said:
had my first christmas card today,,i dont really do them anymore,but,spose i will send one back,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,how do you feel about sending cards for christmas
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Not me..not any more. Only to my daughter.. and I'll hand out a few to my near neighbours.. but I don't send them any more. Not only the price of decent cards,... but £1.25 per stamp... Royal mail has shot themselves in the foot
 
I've always liked it because it's a throwback to happier more peaceful times. But, I've cut back lately. The super high cost of postage is ruining everyone's christmas card plans like Ebenezer Scrooge. :mad:
 
Papa used to hang them as they came onto the paper garlands across the living room. Once he passed away, it reduced down to a quarter of the amount.

Haven't seen cards coming in the mail for ages. I get just a few e-cards instead.
 
If I receive a card, I send one in return. So many people have passed away that we knew, so very few now get exchanged.
 
Another tradition from years gone by. No, we've pretty much gotten away from sending or receiving the 'old' traditional Christmas cards and gone to the computer generated e-cards. I guess it's progress and at the very least saves on a tree or two. Just another checkmark for the history / memory books. Don...
 
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