Electronic Christmas Cards Just Can't Replace the Real Thing

In Sweden this year fewer Christmas cards were sent via post than last year, in which even fewer were sent that the year before. This downward trend is blamed on the ease of sending electronic cards via the internet.

Which is a shame.

In our house we always send loads of Christmas Cards (at least 20 to England and about the same again in Sweden and Europe). For all the fancy graphics and animations you can get with e-cards you can't stick them up on the fridge, or line them up on a shelf or, as we do, hang them from the curtain rail. For us they are another part of the Christmas decorations and make us think about the family and friends who sent them.

You just don't get this emotional connection with electronic cards.

So think twice before deciding not to send Christmas cards via the post. The cost of the stamps and paper is well worth it when you consider the happiness that getting them brings to those close to you.

Merry Christmas...