Are people in general giving up sending Christmas Cards through the post?

[Miltonglade]

I have noticed in the last couple of years friends of mine (who I keep in touch with by meeting, online or text) are not sending Christmas Cards.
Is it becoming an outdated practice??

I bought one pack from a charity shop this year.
I've sent one through the post to a very good friend who lives abroad.
One to a friend at work, half a dozen to family and two more to a couple of neighbours who are also friends.

I haven't sent cards since I left school in the year 2000. I get one card every year from a friend who sends them out but she is the only one and I never send one back. No one else in my social circle does cards. It seems like quite an old fashioned thing to me.

I don't think it will ever be 'old fashioned' to send Christmas greetings to people. What form that takes is just detail really

It's lovely to get something other than official letters and junk mail on the doorstep, but if you know recipients prefer email, then try to match that preference

It's still a big fundraising opportunity for charities (who have been hard hit this year)

I like sending and receiving. It has definitely declined over the years - as a child I remember counting c 125, but so far we’ve had maybe 20.

You can't display emails & texts & electronic cards.

Christmas cards make up part of our decorations.

Overall I'd say yes. I've cut down now and only send them to distance friends and family

The kids design Christmas cards at school and a % goes to the PTA. Having bought a pack for each child I may as well send them, but I probably wouldn't bother buying generic ones.

The older generation in my family have stopped sending cards to people they buy presents for, but still send them to friends etc.

People are too lazy to write them now and have forgotten how to write

I send them to family and put some through neighbours doors but not generally to friends.

In previous years we only really sent them to a few family friends/older relatives abroad.

This year we've sent and recieved loads as we haven't seen people in RL.
Our eldest is in Reception so we've had the novelty of PTA cards and him writing his whole name.

(we're 32 so the younger generation - ish)

I don't send many now. It's too expensive. Last time I sent the full whack it cost £67 in cards and stamps. Never again. I now give all the Big Issue sellers in my town a card with a tenner in it instead. A few older folk get a card but it's a colossal waste of paper and time for one time a year. I try instead to send daft wee cards to individuals on their birthday or for something else. It means so much more than when it's mixed in with the deluge of all the other cards at that time of year. It's a relatively new thing anyway. My parents (in their 90s) don't remember sending and receiving cards in their youth.

I think it's a good idea especially in an isolated year where we've not met anyone. Texts and facebook don't show any effort and can't be displayed. Cards are a good way to remind people you care and doubly so if they are elderly / isolating / having a crap festive period / don't do fb. I have sent 25 to good friends / family (won't be seeing any of them for the foreseeable) but only had 4 back.

Its all very well saying do something instead but this just enables anti-social depressive people like my Dad to cut all social contacts.

I love cards, and it makes me sad how many of my friends can’t be arsed to do it any more.

Lots of childhood Christmas memories are card related - ordering them according to which were my favourites, sorting them into sizes and colours and hanging them up - like a pp, they were our Christmas decorations. That was it, the Christmas tree and all the cards, hung on the walls.

Then helping my dm write down the annual Christmas card ‘list’ of the names in the cards - the following year she would only send cards to people who had sent them to us the previous year! Finally, cutting them up with the big heavy pinking shears to make tags for next year.

I still turn my cards into tags, but I have to supplement them with bought ones now as there aren’t enough.

this just enables anti-social depressive people like my Dad to cut all social contacts

My Dad too. The cards all stopped the year my Mum died.

I've reduced mine dramatically to older relatives and friends that have sent me one. I've made a charitable donation in lieu of the rest of the cards.

Hardly sent any this year by post maybe 20ish mostly family. If makes me so sad, always preferred cards to decorations (my parents got about 150 cards and we had pants decorations in the 80s), and the thinking of others enough to send them cards was kinda what Christmas was about.