The AP has reported a few facts about holiday greeting cards.
They say that Holiday cards date to 1843 in Europe and 1875 in the United States. The Greeting Card Association says that holiday cards now account for about 27% of the 7 billion paper cards sold each year.
The U.S. Postal Service expect total holiday mail to fall for the first time in decades. The drop is expected to be from 20 billion last year to 19 billion pieces of holiday mail this year.
The AP also says that according to ettiquette experts at The Emily Post Institute it is acceptable to skip cards to save money.
You can skip cards but you can also send more meaningful cards to less people if you are trying to cut back. ShoppingBlog.com reports that American Greetings and Hallmark started noticing that people were looking for more traditional cards during the 2007 holidays. The big card companies have also come out with more traditional and heartfelt cards this year.
