Is It Okay To Print Address Labels For Christmas Cards?

[arwalden]

or should I hand-write all the addresses on each envelope? What would Emily Post do?

-- Allen

[meegbear]

1. If you do ...

use CLEAR ones. Even if the envelopes are white, white labels stand out more.

Don't be gauche.

[caledesi]

2. I have been using labels for years. n/t

[bloom]

3. It's OK with me.

:D

[trotsky]

4. Labels are fine.

We try to offset the impersonal nature of the labels and the standard holiday newsletter insert by writing a small comment where we sign the card, something that indicates we were thinking of them as we put the card together.

[mikehiggins]

5. clear labels and "hand-writing" fonts will suffice. n/t

[trof]

6. My Christmas card story

The first Christmas after we were married, Miz t. ordered Christmas cards preprinted with our name. "Merry Christmas from the Lambards."
Not sure if it was her handwriting, or what, but they came "Merry Christmas from the Lamlards".
"No problem" she said, "I'll just take a pen and change the "L" to a "B".
Super.
They went out "Merry Christmas from the Bamlards".
<sigh>
The good news is she's never misspelled our name again.
;-)

[gratuitous]

7. Absolutely NOT!

And you must hand address the envelopes (vellum only, please) with a goose quill pen, dipped in only India ink and wiped with a silk cloth using silk from Mandalay and not that inferior stuff from Cathay, or you're a complete failure and have totally lost the true meaning of the holidays.

Or, do whatever you want, create your own traditions, and enjoy a "holiday" for what it is: Time for you and your loved ones, rather than time for a corporation, or your job, or some other little time thief.

:hi:

[trof]

8. I use a red crayon.

;-)

[supernova]

9. And don't forget the wax seal

imprinted with your family crest, Allen.

LOL! Over Halloween I found a cool Buffy the Vampireslayer font. I'm using that! ;-)

[Sinistrous]

10. Which would you rather receive:

A hand addressed card that shows the sender was thinking of you, or a card with a printed label burped out of a computer?

A printed label will get the card delivered, but it diminishes the significance of the greeting.

If you don't care then print away.

[cosmicdot]

11. what would Hyacinth Bucket do?

check zip codes carefully -- you don't want your first-class postage mail going to and through just any post code areas

keeping up that appearance
is a full-time job and your civic duty
it's an enormous effort, but worth it

the art of social letter writing and social correspondence is an obligation of the socially upwardly mobile person living in an area of outstanding natural porperty values in an exclusive postal code

letters to our Hyacinth and her corresponding replies are always great inspiration and highly educational
http://britcoms.com/kua/aunth/hydec.html

[arwalden]

12. Only The Finest Stamps...

affixed in place by using a RULER to determine the correct spacing.

I love Hyacinth so much... but feel dreadfully sorry for Richard.

-- Allen

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. No, they should be hand-written

All letters should be addressed via handwriting, unless one's handwriting is unreadable, in which case a printed label just makes sense.

It is a sign of respect to hand address every card (and that goes for thank yous, invitations, etc.)

[NicoleM]

14. I make labels.

I make the cards, I make the "to" labels and the "from" labels. They're always terribly cute--cool fonts and clip art and photos. I think that shows just as much "I care" (if not more) than buying store-bought cards and handwriting the addresses.