The first Christmas card of this year’s festive season slid through our letter box yesterday morning, and very welcome it was too as it came from a chum with a great sense of humour.
We plan to post our own Christmas cards at the end of this week, just after Thanksgiving, and I thought that ours would be the first out this year. But my chum has beaten us to it.
I did wonder whether it would be a good idea to put a note in this year’s cards announcing that this would be the last year they would be sent and that a donation to charity would be made in future. But my wife, who is the arbiter of such matters, strongly disagrees as she likes the tradition. On the other hand, she smiles wryly when I point out that it is Yours Truly that has the job of writing them all out!
The first commercial Christmas card is considered to be that commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 at a cost of a shilling each. It is interesting to note that the cost of postage at that time was just one penny.
How things have changed. These days, the cost of postage is very often more than the cost of the cards themselves!
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We plan to post our own Christmas cards at the end of this week, just after Thanksgiving, and I thought that ours would be the first out this year. But my chum has beaten us to it.
I did wonder whether it would be a good idea to put a note in this year’s cards announcing that this would be the last year they would be sent and that a donation to charity would be made in future. But my wife, who is the arbiter of such matters, strongly disagrees as she likes the tradition. On the other hand, she smiles wryly when I point out that it is Yours Truly that has the job of writing them all out!
The first commercial Christmas card is considered to be that commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 at a cost of a shilling each. It is interesting to note that the cost of postage at that time was just one penny.
How things have changed. These days, the cost of postage is very often more than the cost of the cards themselves!
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