Are you sending Christmas cards this year? Or less than previous years?

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Just curious as I can’t decide whether to cut costs and really streamline my Christmas card list, or to fully embrace the season of goodwill and send everyone on my list a card as usual!

I plan to send the normal amount.

My elderly relatives are getting less, just my Aunt now for a posted card. I usually pop one in with presents which are delivered by hand, it can work out very expensive to post them nowadays

I'm not sending any this year.

I know this is controversial but I read Christmas / birthday/ anniversary cards and then bin them pretty much straight away. I expect others do the same once they've read the message, so I think it's been a big waste of money in previous years.

I'll be sending my usual amount, but that isn't particularly high - 12-15 I think.

I used to send about 20 or 30. It will be 5 tops this year. Have you seen the price of stamps??

And where I live the postal service has been abysmal for about the last 5 years since they closed our local sorting office. So we've been receiving the cards sent to us weeks after Christmas also.

I wish I could boycott Royal Mail altogether.

I haven't sent any for years

I haven't sent Christmas cards in years.
There are other quicker and easier ways to wish someone a Merry Christmas these days that don't involve chopping trees down or using fuel to deliver.

I've only sent cards to my elderly relatives for years. There's less of them around now so the list is getting lesser. I'll send five this year.

I'm going to, but I'm going to try to reduce the amount I post I think — stamps are so expensive and the post seems to be getting less and less reliable.

For local ones I I'll put them through the doors myself, and I'll make an effort to take them to give to people if I'm seeing them.

I send them as I genuinely find them a good way to keep in touch with people I can't get round to seeing every year but don't want to lose from my life altogether. Friends who have moved away and more distant family mainly. I also like to give them to regular professionals e.g. teachers, hairdresser, window cleaner. I probably send 30-40 each year.

Will add, I don't give them to close family or friends who I see a lot of day-to-day.

I only send physical
cards to people I don’t see but still remain in touch with. I also send a few
e-cards. I don’t send cards to anyone I see and wish a merry Christmas

I’ll be sending about 5. Used to send 25-30

Only a couple to elderly relatives.

I haven't sent cards the last few years but will this year as dc has designed some with school for the first time so would like to send them. I love receiving them but equally understand it is a bit of a waste of money. More so the cost of stamps than the cards.

Exactly the same for me, there are some friends that don't use social media or not actively and that I don't see any more but still like to keep in touch with, a letter in a card at Christmas is a lovely way to do that. Then there are elderly relatives, dentist, hairdresser etc.

Immediate family and a couple of neighbours who send them to everyone in the street. I send very, very few now.

I actually feel quite sad about it, because when I was growing up, half the excitement was taking turns with my brother opening the cards as they came through the post, and putting them up on the strings that my dad put up. They added to the decor and I always volunteered to write the cards as I enjoyed it. But I do understand that it's wasteful and just a bit outdated really.

For people I see I will give the same amount , family , friends who get together for a Christmas meal , neighbours etc . The posted ones I wish I could stop , they go to mainly relatives on my husbands side we haven’t seen for donkeys years , but several of them have lost long term spouses over the last two years or are in ill health , so I would feel bad about no longer acknowledging them .

Reduce for sure. Price of stamps is prohibitive to send loads of cards out.

There’s only 2 that I send through the post and the rest are given in person and I’ve bought a colour in your own cards book so ds can make them for everyone 🥰

I haven't sent any for 6 years. I still get a few sent to me but I don't display them

I'm sending the usual amount, which works out at somewhere around 15. Mostly family but also a few friends.

I'm not posting any but will hand deliver a couple to older friends as always

I usually send and recieve no more than a handful so imagine will be the same this year!

I stopped about 10 years ago. I loved sending them and receiving them. I'd be checking dates to send cards abroad, when my Christmas card line started being more companies and fast food places, I stopped 😂 now in the last 2 years people have started sending them to us again but with the ridiculous price of cards and stamps I don't. I do get a nice one for pil and DH and kids, just hand over nice cheap cards.