Christmas present thank yous?

[Greenlife1]

Do you thank your friends/ family for Christmas presents.

I always do. Although I admit usually via message/ phone where once it used be handwritten.

I have come to notice an absence of thank you messages over the last couple years....anyone else?

Although we mostly open the presents at home, DS sees most of our relatives over Christmas so says thanks in person. I'll follow up with a message on the group chat.

Anyone we don't see I'll message. DS will do a thank you note for my elderly relative.

I'm not really bothered about getting a thank you as my DS gets presents from the parents of all the kids I buy for so it all just works out. If I was childless I'd expect a thanks from my nephews and nieces in some form.

It’s just common courtesy to say thank you for a gift - in whichever form that thank you comes.
My kids write thank you cards to family members and friends of the family for both birthdays and Christmas. Their own friends get a thank you at the time of receiving the gift as it’s normally at their own party.
My brother and his wife are shit at this. They almost never acknowledge receipt of a gift, let alone say thank you for it. I find it incredibly rude and normally message to check they’ve received it, to try and prompt some gratitude!

I saw a thread on this earlier today. It seems to be par the course that thank-you's are no longer expected -

I sent the kid’s thank you text/video over a week as I like to send photos of them playing with item received.

Always ensure the DC’s FaceTime or call people to thank for gifts. DH’s family rarely thank or acknowledge receipt of gifts & I find it bad manners

DH and I insist that DS says thank you in some form: in person, by phone, message or letter. I stopped sending presents to my godson because he never said thank you (I know they were delivered).

We tend to open presents with the relative who is giving it, so we can just say "thank you" straight away. There are a couple who send presents via post, so I would send a text thank you and usually a picture of the kids playing/wearing/using what they were given.

Our kids do them but our adults don’t give/get much, will write and than those that have hosted us.

It’s nice to know that it’s even arrived though!

Yes, I appreciate people taking the time to get me something so always say thanks for the present!