Snail mail Christmas cards

[Aphro]

Does anyone still do this?

I do, but over the years my list has gotten a lot shorter. It seems like most people have stopped sending cards. I still send to older relatives, and a handful of friends. Maybe 20 or so cards total. I used to send close to 50, and it would cost a fortune in stamps.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I mailed just one card.

 

[Aphro]

I would totally send these out:

 

[AnneSexton]

Yes.

I do. I like the ones that come with a newsletter folded-up inside.

 

[Froya]

I used to love doing it, and I keep saying I'm going to get back to sending them, but it never seems to get on the list of things to do. I always sent more than I got back, and that doesn't bother me. So few people I know send cards now. If I get more than four, I'll be very surprised.

 

[doowdniw]

I sent out a batch on Monday. The ones going to the UK may be a little late.

 

[silver gurl]

Yes. Sent mine out last week. A few may be late.

 

[spacekowboy]

I bought them and stamps with every intention of sending them out....

But I didnt.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I normally do since I keep a short list, this year I may but will be late if at all. I tend to personalize (doodle) on the envelop & enclose a thoughtful note inside, all of which takes time and inspiration. This Christmas both are in short supply.

BTW beautiful Av

 

[Aquagal]

I sent one.

 

[oggbashan]

We send and receive about 50 in each direction through Royal Mail.

We send and receive about the same number delivered by hand.

But our e-cards are increasing year on year.

 

[Aquagal]

I laughed when I saw a friend take a family picture Christmas postcard to mail out, but only took a picture of the picture and then put it on the FB to all her friends.

Talk about lazy and cheap.

 

[TwinkleStars]

I do, ask silver gurl .

 

[Adre]

Sent 50.

 

[lynn-23]

We still do them. They were a tradition in my family growing up and my husband's family did them too, so it was something my husband and I carried on with after we married. We still send out about the same number, probably 40 or so to friends, family, some co-workers. But over the years, the number we get back has dropped dramatically. I think we have received 4 so far this year and one of those was from our bank. So many people now just post on Facebook or Instagram. I much prefer the actual mailed cards. We keep a list and sit down one evening in early December and put on a movie, open a bottle of wine and start writing them out and addressing them. I always thought it was nice to go to the mailbox every evening in December and find things other than bills or junk mail and hear from people I don't hear from often. Sadly, its a tradition that is fading away. Stamps are expensive, and facebook is free.

 

[chillywilly2]

Still about 20 or so. We have a list and whoever sends one gets one. You miss 2 years running and you're off the list

 

[oggbashan]

Still about 20 or so. We have a list and whoever sends one gets one. You miss 2 years running and you're off the list

Twenty years ago we used to send and receive about 200. Older members of the family have died and younger ones use e-cards.

Any that don't send for two years don't get except one branch of the family who just cannot afford postage stamps and aren't on line. We still send to them and get email updates about them from other parts of the family who are close enough to visit.

 

[Hypoxia]

Most friends and family are gone now. We used to send out dozens; this year, we each sent about five, even to those who only respond with last-minute e-cards. So it goes.

 

[warrior queen]

Since transitioning to a minimal-waste lifestyle, I haven't done cards.
My planetary footprint is miniscule these days

 

[sr71plt]

I still snail mail Christmas cards. Not only that, but I hand paint each one individually. Takes me several months.

 

[TarynUp]

My friends and I exchange cards before we go home for Christmas break. I like it, it's like an old school tradition that makes me feel happy

 

[Bray123]

I've had two cards this year, addressed not to us - nor to the family that lived at my house before us, but to the family that lived here before them. Must have been around twenty years since those people lived here.

What is the point of that, I'm not too sure.

I post one card a year, zero e-anythings, zero gifts and that takes all the stress out of the season.

 

[sr71plt]

I've had two cards this year, addressed not to us - nor to the family that lived at my house before us, but to the family that lived here before them. Must have been around twenty years since those people lived here.

Weird, isn't it? We received one this year addressed to my father, who has been dead for thirty-four years--and who died nine years before we bought this house.

 

[thespiceoflife]

We still do them. They were a tradition in my family growing up and my husband's family did them too, so it was something my husband and I carried on with after we married. We still send out about the same number, probably 40 or so to friends, family, some co-workers. But over the years, the number we get back has dropped dramatically. I think we have received 4 so far this year and one of those was from our bank. So many people now just post on Facebook or Instagram. I much prefer the actual mailed cards. We keep a list and sit down one evening in early December and put on a movie, open a bottle of wine and start writing them out and addressing them. I always thought it was nice to go to the mailbox every evening in December and find things other than bills or junk mail and hear from people I don't hear from often. Sadly, its a tradition that is fading away. Stamps are expensive, and facebook is free.

yes....fading fast, we still receive about 40+ cards but send 60 or so