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Christmas cards with or without stamps
2011-12-23 07:15 (768 Views)

I would like to thank all of you that have been so very kind to send me Seasons Greetings either by electronic media or by postal service.

This year when I was about to start thinking about sending the usual Christmas cards I was informed that we do not have any cards in the company this year but I could send an electronic Greeting.

For me that created a bit of an emotional conflict as I do believe in the physical card with a beautiful picture on it. It can be a picture of a mountain, a city skyline, the sky or sometimes it can be more related to Santa Claus. In general cards are very beautiful and make you feel happy. The beautiful cards arrives in envelopes with stamps on and just by that you can see from which country the greeting comes, sometimes the stamp is also a special Christmas stamp that has been created by the postal service just for this time of the year. You open the envelope and by then you can see who the kind person is that have sent you this greeting for the season.

As you might have gathered by now I’m a favorite of cards sent by postal service but as I mentioned in the beginning we did not have any this year so I was trying to adjust my mind to send the electronic version but just as I had come to grips with this for me very revolutionary thoughts I heard that we might be able to find some old fashioned cards after all. The cards arrived eventually but a bit late for me to be able to have them in the post in time for the holidays.

My Seasons Greetings have been stuck somewhere in space this year and it is not even cyber space, I will now save the physical cards for next year when I will once again be able to send a card in a envelope with a stamp on.

I believe that I’m quite good at using modern technology as well as social media but I strongly believe in some of the traditional ways of communication as well. We must not forget the joy of getting a real letter in these days of emails, facebook, twitter etc.

The ironic bit of this is that after making a speech about physical cards I will end up wishing you all happy holidays through a community!

Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year

Updated 2011-12-28 at 06:15 by Hakan Aldrin

Comments

    what Göran has written is also my traditional feeling, but meanwhile as we have seen a lot of electronic Seasons Greetings with a bunch of new - technical improved - innovations I'm ready to switch. Already this year I created for each of my important clients individual wordings; and to be honest that takes less than 50 % of work to do this with the machine than by hand .... and a drop of heart feelings can also be send out in our new world of Christmas cards.
    Have a splendend time between now and a hopefully healthy and successful Year 2012!
    Jan from TSF in Hamburg
    There is this service I have been using where you can upload a photo and write a card via internet. The service then include printing the card with the picture of your choice and sent out as a regular mail with a stamp. I think you can also upload the adress list you have and either send out the same text to all or group recipients for different text and or picture.