Christmas cards out of fashion I wonder !

If it made you smile it’s done it’s job caleo

At 85 pence for a 1st class stamp I’m not surprised people are sending fewer cards. A stamp in 1950 would cost 45p at today’s valuation but it’s nearly twice the price.

That’s lovely BlueBelle.

What a lovely card, Bluebell.

I’ve been sending (free!) e-cards to quite a few sort of peripheral folk for years now especially abroad-must have saved a fortune! Definitely sending-and receiving less.

Mine are limited to siblings and close cousin now, but I don' t always receive one back so ...

I love to send and receive Christmas cards ?
Though there are an increasing amount of people who say they don’t ‘do’ cards now
Or worse posting on social media they are giving to ‘charity’ instead of cards this year
Not interchangeable IMHO ?

@BlueBelle - receiving a hand painted card must make the recipient feel very special, and they are lovely ?

The exorbitant costs!
Combine the initial cost of the card, plus time to write in it and add the addresses, recipient and sender to the envelope, then off to the post office, very expensive postage! Especially if outside the UK. Reckon on about £4.00/card. I just can’t do that, I simply don’t have the funds.
Much easier to use Skype, do it in person.

I think the cost of the postage puts a lot of people off. My husband very kindly spends about 3 hours during an afternoon the week before Christmas and hand delivers the majority of our cards within a 25 mile radius. I only post ,well it will be two this year, some of my regulars have died.
I send cards to people who will be alone and I have noticed elderly friends measure their self-worth by the number of cards they receive.

I love sending and receiving cards, and in fact have a storage box of new ones that I have bought when they are reduced in the new year!
Last year I posted a card through every letterbox in the street - I felt that being in lockdown, it was important that everyone knew that someone was thinking of them. Didn't get the same number back. but didn't expect to!
It's the postal costs that are prohibitive these days. I used to post cards to relatives and friends overseas every year but as it got more expensive, I sent emails instead. Not the same.

I used to send lots of cards until one year I spent almost 60.00 on stamps - sadly I had to cut down after that

I love cards - both sending and receiving. As for the cost of postage, I'll start soon and pop a book of stamps in with my weekly shopping - that way I usually have enough for the cards and some left over to use throughout the year.

I usually start off dreading Christmas,

then reluctantly, get pulled into it
not sending cards, then when I get my first ones
it does sort of set a better feeling

then get to send them at the last minute,
but yes, people, move, we lose contact for different reasons
people die even!!! I want to get back to this wonderful
"normal" some people go on about

me? I am at the stage of dreading Christmas.
It is a lonely time

I understand that expense can be a problem. I use second class stamps and deliver the local cards. Also I shop around for cheap cards. The cost is included in our Christmas budget. We buy quite a lot of presents but don’t spend much on food or drink so we save in that way.

The answer is No.. I work in the greeting card industry and we still sell the same amount now as we did 5 years ago if not more. Christmas cards are our biggest selling season followed by Mothers day.

Yes. Waste of money

Bah humbug

Too expensive, except hand delivery, and special friends/family!

@Charleygirl5

The cost of postage is now so prohibitive they are pricing themselves out of the market.

Over the past few years I've culled my list right to the bone and only post 1 xmas card which I cleverly (if I do say so myself) put in the envelope with birthday cards for 2/9 Dec. I post 2 other birthday cards in September and that's it. The only other cards are for my partner, son and best friend, none of which need to be posted.
Every year I'm appalled at the price of stamps, when I went to send the cards a few days ago and was told 85p per 1st class card, I almost choked, I only paid 69p per card. There's still over a week until the birthdays so I dropped them to 2nd class but they were still 66p each, ridiculous!
Now I'm looking at what it's likely to cost to send the xmas/birthday cards in December, I'm assuming they won't be under the 2mm limit and the weight won't be a standard large letter so I'm looking at £1.83 (1st) or £1.53 (2nd), it would only cost about that in petrol to hand deliver this one!

It's the only way I keep in touch with people, I know its expensive but it's only once a year.

Your card is lovely BlueBelle.

I too make my own cards - Christmas, birthday , anniversary, new baby/house etc. Yes, it does take time, but I find it both relaxing and satisfying. One friend said she saves all my cards as they are too pretty to put in the recycling!

This year I am so behind with my Christmas card making. My lovely Mum passed away in June, and I have been busy sorting out her house, and giving away/donating/getting rid of the contents of her house. I'm findind the process quite emotional and stressful, but the end is in sight!

I will plan a relatively free week sometime soon, and set to work. I usually make about 40, half of which are posted. I love to receive cards at Christmas, they are all blu-tacked to the doors leading off the hall (6), and so become part of the decorations.

I receive less and less every year, but I honestly think paying for the postage has put a lot of people off. I still send my special family and friends ones and they are normally just dropped in their gift bags.

I loved the tradition of the sending of Christmas cards . My mother had seven siblings and they were all close and dad had five but only three were close the other two were in Australia so never heard much from them.
Every year I sent cards to aunts and uncles and continued throughout my life sadly now they have all passed away and still I miss the sending of the card to them. I still have some first cousins and a few of us still send out cards to each other but some do not bother.

I don't think it's dying out, but the horrendous cost of postage is making many people cut back, or send e-cards instead (which I hate).

I still send about 60 cards each year, usually with letters for friends and family we very rarely see. I like the GC to have nice cards as I know they (or their parents) keep them. Last year I made all my cards, may do the same this year, most people really appreciate a simple handmade greeting. I like to uphold as many of the old Christmas traditions as possible in our modern high-tech world.