Does anyone get Christmas cards anymore?

[Corgigal]

I’m not talking local business mailings. Should we have a DU Christmas cards mailings? Do we trust enough for that, or does anyone care about cards anymore?

I’m not sure , any suggestions?

[femmocrat]

1. I not only receive them, I send them.

I look forward to hearing from relatives and friends, Merry Christmas, DU!

[jimfields33]

2. I received one from a cousin and two from neighbors so far this year.

No others. Back in the day id get 50 or so. Those days are long gone.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

3. Still a tradition with the ancients....

in our family, so we send a receive a slew of them, the younger set, who knows, are there instagram Xmas cards?

[Corgigal]

4. So, to many

it’s starting to slim out. Does anyone here want to get a card? Private message me an address, and I will mail a card. I understand the privacy with all of this, but so many of us have been here for so long.

Up to you. A little DU holiday spirit would be a nice touch.

[LakeArenal]

5. Mail is expensive in Costa Rica so I can't

But I used to make Solstice Cards as that is the real event of this time of year.

Not fake a fake Birthday

Not a arbitrary New Year

They don’t celebrate Thanksgiving everywhere.

But the Solstice now that’s a real celebration.

[Runningdawg]

6. I've gotten one in the last 6 years. But that is about to change.

A music group I am a part of on FB is really tight. This year a Christmas card/gift exchange was suggested. Gift can't cost more than $5 and must fit in card envelope. So far, I have 7 people to trade with, I guess we will see how it goes.

[doc03]

7. One from a neighbor, the insurance man and car dealer.

[Corgigal]

8. Lord,

You sound like me. We got one from my husband health insurance. Yuck.

Will mail a card, if you want to shake up your postal carrier. Ha.

[doc03]

11. Oh I forgot the one from my health insurace

company. They all pretty much want my money.

[LNM]

9. We get quite a few

It's surprising since we don't send out any. Most of them are from the younger generation, my kids friends and cousins and our friend's kids. I love getting them.

[mnhtnbb]

10. I have received two so far this year.

I used to send out 80-90 cards/year as recently as five years ago. Then my husband and I separated, and the last cards I sent out were literally right before he committed suicide in 2018. Haven't sent cards since then and have only received a handful each year.
Just finished writing a card to my cousin. Maybe I'll send a couple more this week, but nothing like what I used to do.

[Nay]

12. So far I have sent out 4 and received 3. It's not a big deal anymore, AFAIK.

[malthaussen]

13. Yep, California Peggy sends me one every year.

I even send one to her.

-- Mal

[Binkie The Clown]

14. Have not sent or received any physical cards in the last 30 years. nt

[Harker]

15. Thanks for reminding me.

The three my wife asked me to mail are still in my car.

[MyOwnPeace]

16. I mailed out 54 this year......

still waiting for my 'Thank You' note from DeJoy.......

[50 Shades Of Blue]

17. We've only gotten 7 so far this year. I mailed about 30.

Sadly, there's a been a lot of attrition due to older relatives/friends passing in the past 5 years, but a lot of people I used to exchange cards with just don't send them any more. I can't seem to end the tradition though.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I both send and receive holiday cards.

[TuxedoKat]

19. I still send them

I don't get that many, maybe a dozen or so. I love sending as much as receiving them. There is one DU'er I send a card too. I'll send one to you too if you like.

[patphil]

20. We send and receive about 30 Christmas cards each year.

I remember as a young boy watching my mother prepare well over a hundred cards. She would write a Christmas message in most of them...different depending on who she was sending it to.
She sent so many that she would start making them out in November, and kept track of them in a notebook with columns for each person's name, and with sent and received columns for each year.
It was actually a manual version of a spreadsheet; way before computers.

[Ocelot II]

21. Very few.

I remember years ago when it was a big deal - my mother spent hours addressing cards, and we'd always get a ton of them, sometimes including mimeographed (!) letters bragging about the sender's brilliant children and lavish vacations and we'd always get a good laugh from those. These days it's just email, if that.

[bikebloke]

22. It's down to one card a year.

I exchange with some Dutch friends. They call it my "proof-of-life" card. My father remarried before he died. His wife and I exchanged cards. But I haven't heard from her in a couple years, so suspect she's dead.

[Fla Dem]

23. Yes, but the list has been greatly reduced in the past 20 years.

Probably sent out about 20 this year.

[MissB]

24. I got one from a niece

And I suspect the other niece will send one out too. Generally we see close family around Christmas and well, all year round.

I did get a nice arrangement from a local realtor. We had her over two years ago when we thought of moving but ended up not moving. She’s someone I’ve volunteered with over the years at the school. It is a nice arrangement with a small succulent, orchid and evergreen (all potted) and some decorative items. Better than a card.

[onethatcares]

25. we send and receive

we don't send out yearly history like some do, but it's nice to see the same names on the mantle at this time of year.

It's sad not to see some names on the mantle too, but such is life.

[RobinA]

26. My Friends Do

They don't reciprocate much, but I will send as long as I want to. It's sad really. Doing a small nice thing for people is too much trouble. Or something.

What I want to know is do brides and grooms send out Thank Yous anymore? I'm 0 for 2 this fall. The one I had to check my bank statement to see if they had gotten my check. They had. The others I can only assume they got the gift, as I took it to the groom's parents' house as instructed.

[malaise]

27. One of my siblings sends a card every year

without exception- she started this the year she left for college 1968