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So when you get Christmas cards with printed address labels do you think...

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LIZS · 17/12/2007 19:58

  1. how impersonal
  2. how convenient, must try to remember to do ours on Word in time for next year
  3. there's someone with too much time on their hands ?
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tassisssss · 17/12/2007 19:59

2

every year we say we'll do this by next year and we don't!

louii · 17/12/2007 19:59
  1. someone has moved house and is telling new address?
Pennies · 17/12/2007 20:00
  1. Hate it.
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LIZS · 17/12/2007 20:01

I mean on the envelope , not inside ! I tend to 2/3

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SeaShells · 17/12/2007 20:01

Someone wants a card in return

TheIceQueen · 17/12/2007 20:01

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Alambil · 17/12/2007 20:02

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Weegle · 17/12/2007 20:02
  1. I do it - relic from when all addresses went in to excel for wedding invitations. v handy print them all off. Why is it impersonal? I write a message in the card. I seriously couldn't be fagged to do that if I had to handwrite 80 addresses, where's the issue?
SeaShells · 17/12/2007 20:04

Oh your address not theirs! God I don't send enough to be bothered with that, haven't sent any yet this year.

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 17/12/2007 20:05
  1. Like Weegle, it's a relic from wedding invites. It also means that I don't forget anyone since if the label has gone from the sheet, I've written the card!

I can't believe anyone finds it impersonal. It's what's in the card that counts.

DaisyMoo · 17/12/2007 20:06
  1. How bizarre - when it came from neighbour over the road and I know everyone else on the road had theirs handwritten with just their name
manchita · 17/12/2007 20:08

Just got one today-seemed quite impersonal to me

TheIceQueen · 17/12/2007 20:12

manchita - how is it impersonal if the message inside is hand written?

My mum used to send out over 300 christmas cards - she used to hand write the message but printed address labels off the carefully maintained contact list on their computer.

These days she sends a lot fewer cards, but still uses the printed address labels (with handwritten message inside) due to her writing being rather unpredictable because of her Parkinsons.

ISawSantaKissingKerrysNorks · 17/12/2007 20:12

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speak2deb · 17/12/2007 20:13

2- I wish I was organised enough to do it

Lucycat · 17/12/2007 20:15

TheIceQueen - my mum does the same as she has quite bad arthritis in her hands and while she can cope with the the insides - just - the addresses are just a step too far for her.

I wish i was as organised......

TenLordsaLapin · 17/12/2007 20:20

I do that, we have all our friends' addresses on a database (well, I am an IT geek) which I update as they move and/or have children (or get divorced etc!) and then we run a whole load of labels for Christmas cards.

It's convenient, it's easier on the hands (sending 120 ish cards!) and also it solves the problem of trying to write with a fountain pen on those farking shiny envelopes!

TenLordsaLapin · 17/12/2007 20:21

Conversely, I get slightly irritated when I receive a card that is just signed, without "Dear Lapins" etc. I don't expect a message, but just a signature does seem a tad impersonal.

TheIceQueen · 17/12/2007 20:25

TLL - I think my mum started to do just the signature thing after a few years of sending 100's each Christmas......when she got a LOT of comments about how the "card was addressed to us but it had someone elses name inside"

TenLordsaLapin · 17/12/2007 20:25

I have to confess, I have done that but it was at work

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