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A seasonal greeting card, whether handwritten on personalized Christmas stationary or typed out on a tasteful e-card, is one way to show family and friends you care about them this holiday season ...
The greeting in the card can be personalized but brief, or may include a summary of the year's news. The extreme of this is the Christmas letter (below). Because cards are usually exchanged year after year, the phrase "to be off someone's Christmas card list" is used to indicate a falling out between friends or public figures.
"Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!" "Season's greetings, and best wishes for the New Year." “I hope your holiday is full of love, peace, and joy!” "Merry Christmas, and best wishes for 2025."
Since its conception in 1994 by Judith Donath, [2] [3] the technology behind the E-card has changed significantly. One technical aspect that remained mostly constant until 2019 was the delivery mechanism: the e-mail received by the recipient contains not the E-card itself, but an individually coded link back to the publisher's website that displays the sender's card.
American Greetings Corporation is a privately held American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. [2] [3] Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, gift packaging, stickers and party products.
Someecards.com is a free online e-cards service created by Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell. The content of Someecards consists of parodies of the sentiments found in the traditional Hallmark greeting card, sometimes features content that could be considered offensive if taken seriously. [1]
The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 15th century, handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe.
In the United Kingdom, an estimated one billion pounds are spent on greeting cards every year, with the average person sending 55 cards annually. [19] In the United States, approximately 6.5 billion greeting cards are bought each year, at a total cost of more than US$7 billion. [1] A counter card in the U.S. typically sells for $2 to $4. [1]