Easy Tips for Sending Out Christmas Cards
The practice of mailing out Christmas cards has been around for a several centuries. The practice started in London when Sir Henry Cole commissioned John Horsley to make a card that the he could send out to friends and family for the season in lieu of his traditional letters. The commission was for one thousand cards in color.
As the years passed, many skeptics thought that sending Christmas cards and other greeting cards was just a fad but it turns out that it is a beautiful practice of keeping in touch with relatives and friends.
Time
Since Christmas cards are usually sent out during the holiday season, it is a given that many other people have the same idea and wish to send out the cards also. The problem with waiting until a few days before Christmas is that the post office may have a severe backlog due to too much correspondence. Your Christmas cards might not be able to reach their recipients on time. The best thing to do is to mail the Christmas cards in the middle of December at the latest or a little earlier if they are going out of the country.
Details
Another Christmas card tip is to jot down your mailing list according to an order which you understand for better checking. Keeping you address book up to date is also essential in keeping the recipients addresses current. In mailing Christmas cards, always write down your return address to be sure that the post office knows where to return them incase the recipient has moved. This practice of writing down a return address is also useful for the recipient if he or she would wish to mail a Christmas card to you.
Christmas cards should also contain the exact names and addresses of their recipients. Legible writing will be appreciated by both the mailman and the recipient. If your writing is sloppy, print mailing labels and purchase large quantities of return address labels for yourself. This will save you a lot of time and effort when addressing lots of envelopes.
Sending and receiving greeting cards can be a great feeling. In spite of modern advancement of emails, many people still would like to receive something that is handwritten and sent from the heart. The practice of writing and sending out greeting cards has a strong following and you can expect to see greeting cards remain a permanent fixture in our lives.
