Christmas cards - stop sending

I've never bought charity cards from anywhere except that charity's own shop. I know that if they're bought from a regular shop, the charity doesn't get that much.
I'm going to have to be organised and send them early on a 2nd class stamp approx half the price of 1st class stamp. Last year the latest 2nd class posting date was 18 December.

I’m with you, OP.

the only ones I post are to my family, to my neighbors , I post them through their letterbox, and they do the same. the price of stamps are extortionate ,

Quite a few of ours are for abroad, but I usually start writing them all on 1st December, and post nice and early, so all UK cards only need a 2nd class stamp.

Any cards sent (very few) will be posted with a 2nd class stamp which is half the price of 1st class and probably doesn't get there much slower.

I buy my Christmas cards from the hospice that provided such excellent care for DD and then DH and support for me and my family.
I’ve always regarded the giving and sending cards as an important way of bringing families together regardless of where we all live and hospice charity cards make me feel they are both included.

I’ll carry on sending them despite the astronomical cost of postage. They go out on December 1st.

I got my first Christmas gift catalogue this week, and for the first time ever there were hardly any Christmas cards for sale. Manufacturers must reckon C cards are a dying market.

I’ll still send some cards but the list is vastly shorter than it used to be. They’ll have Second Class stamps, though I’ve a,ways done that anyway.

A friend who gave up sending cards a long time ago, before that was really A Thing, was complaining the other day that she’s lost touch with some of the people she used to exchange cards with. I did think that maybe you have to be careful what you wish for, especially as the friend rarely uses the internet so the erstwhile friends can’t contact her that way, either.

It’s September folks can we end the summer and have a nice Autumn before ranting about Christmas cards and there’s already been a thread about this in August !!!

I agree with merlot. I will continue to send cards to people that have meaning in our live - be it recently or many years ago.

I buy direct from the charity and post 2nd class.

I love receiving and displaying Christmas cards so continue to send them.

I can’t imagine my home at Christmas without the cards crammed on to various surfaces, some refusing to stay upright and some so lovely you decide to keep them along with all the others you couldn’t bear to part with.
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I agree with Merlot, kitty and winter white, but a much reduced number to post and always 2nd class - it’s against my religion to use 1st!. I do, however, try to hand deliver as many cards as I can.

I too will continue to buy cards, local charity cards, for family in Ireland, my precious uncle of 92 ‘up north’ and a couple of other dear people who live away from here.
Others I’ll hand deliver, part of my Christmas, always has been.

I buy mine from Muscular Dystrophy as not only does it give them some profit albeit small it brings the charity to people’s notice. If you’d rather make a donation instead to your favourite charity why not? Another option is th send email cards from a company like Jacquie Lawson. A subscription can be used all year round for all events - provided you have email addresses.

It’s a good idea to have email addresses anyway. Stupid lost her Christmas address book last year and some didn’t get a card as a consequence. I’ve searched high and low and have just found it under my desk in the study! Now I need to write with apologies and say that I am still alive.

We never post any , our family are all local . So I deliver them myself, I don't see my extended family often , so it's nice to catch up