“. . . with ev’ry Christmas card I write.”
“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas, with ev’ry Christmas card I write.” Does anyone write Christmas cards today?
shareEarlier today, I posted a Christmas card to a second cousin once removed.
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Yeah but through email. I don't have a car so it's an issue to take them to the post office. Last time I tried mailing a birthday card from my apartment, I put 2 stamps on it and my carrier put a note on it that said, "Too much postage." and put it back in my mailbox. I hadn't tried mailing a card from my apartment since.
share“Too MUCH postage”?! That’s a crime or something? You did not deserve that.
shareNormally letters get returned for insufficient postage. But in today's paranoid post 9-11 world excess postage is viewed with suspicion. If someone wanted to mail a letter containing a toxic substance, as was done with anthrax, they would put extra stamps on the envelope to avoid interaction with a postal clerk. The anonymous letter would have plenty of postage and would reach its destination.
A big red flag for the postal service is a package with no return address covered with postage stamps. It may contain explosive devices.
In the case of GreenGoblinsOck8 this shouldn't have happened. The letter was in the outgoing mail from a known location and would have had a return address.
Yes. I put my address on the top left side so it definitely wasn't suspicious. Then again I have also had to send packages to my parents house (they live in the same town as me) because my postal carrier refuses to take packages that don't fit in my mail box back to the post office so I can pick them up later. And instead puts them on the back steps of my apartment door where someone else can steal them. I already had that happen once and even went to the post office to complain but they kept doing it. It's really frustrating.
shareToday's mail carriers are so overburdened with package delivery due to the increase in on-line shopping, i.e Amazon and their ilk. The carrier may not have taken the box back because there was little room in the truck and they were anticipating a bunch of package pick-ups (people returning their purchases, etc.). The postal service was designed to handle letters and the occasional parcel, but today the tables have turned and package delivery has gone through the roof while letter mail is decreasing.
I once found a package on my steps on the Tuesday morning after the three-day Labor Day weekend. I checked the tracking number and found out it had been delivered on Sunday (a big no-no in my house) and had sat there for two days. Fortunately it had not been stolen or damaged by rain. This is one of the few times I went to the post office to file a complaint. The "delivery supervisor" told me they started package delivery on Sundays and holidays because Amazon dictates this. Scamazon thinks it runs the postal service, another reason why I don't do business with them. I only shop online as a last resort anyway, and the package in question wasn't even from Scamazon. The postal service had decided, since they had to go out on the route that day, they might as well deliver all Priority Mail parcels. This was supposed to ease the burden on Mondays, which are traditionally heavy volume days.
I told the supervisor that I don't want to see any mail at my house on Sundays. He said they would attach a "warning card" to my address notifying carriers not to deliver on that day. It worked for the most part, although there were still a couple of incidents this year. I now put a label on my mailbox which says NO DELIVERIES ON SUNDAYS OR FEDERAL HOLIDAYS. I will wait and see how effective this is.
Well I know about that stuff about Amazon and I admit I still shop with them. I like to buy particular old comics and unfortunatley none of my local comics stores have them and there are no trades that collect them. So I have to buy them on ebay and amazon.
shareThat's the "last resort" approach I was talking about. Collectible comics are something that are difficult to find unless you go to a comics convention or antiques/collectibles show. These are specialty items.
I'm talking about everyday items that can be found in any store. There are too many people who need something and the first impulse is to log onto Scamazon and expect the item to show up on the doorstep yesterday. Instant gratification without exerting any effort.
If others want to shop online, that's fine. Don't interfere with my life. I don't go out on weekends because I've spent the rest of the week running the rat-race. I don't appreciate having to get completely dressed just to make an unnecessary trip to the mailbox on a day when there should be no mail delivery in the first place, just because Scamazon thinks they own the postal service.
I understand. Though to be fair there are some products that aren't available in stores in my area due to selling whine and beer. Everyone signed petitions to my city council back in 2011 to have all grocery stores sell liquor and nobody thought about how the stores would have to quit selling particular products to make room for beer and whine.
shareWe sent out Christmas cards this year.
On the opposite end, My sister in law put a picture of her kids on Facebook and told everyone that’s her Christmas card
When I was a child, I never saw the point of Christmas cards. I grew up in the suburbs, and even as a small child I could see that all the suburbanites made a point of displaying all the cards they'd received, that they were competing to show off how many cards they'd received and how popular they were.
I've never sent Christmas cards as an adult, and don't save or display the ones I recieve.
Thank you, Otter. One thing I had at the back of my mind when I made this topic was the ostentatious display of received cards, usually on the home’s fireplace mantelpiece. For some reason, as a child I always found it vulgar and cold. Many of the cards were not handwritten at all. My father was the news anchorman for the CBS affiliated station in our region. We got cards printed by corporations. Not a warm and fuzzy experience. I think digital but personal expression is much better than corporate analog.
shareI have always loved the display of Christmas cards. They are a decoration and festive reminder of those I care about. They are a traditional part of the tinsel and holly decoration group. I never considered the idea of them being some sort of competition nor badge of popularity. That is some Scroogey shit. Though I never saw a sterile corporate printout card. That might have Scrooged me too.
shareI feel the same way. (as I'm looking at the cards I've received this year that are on the mantle of my fireplace). I don't generally have a lot of people in my home at Christmas, so I can't say that I display them to show others how many I get. I look at them and am touched that those people who sent them took a minute out of their day and thought about me.
shareMy companies send about 4000 to clients. Mrs K handles all the social ones. I write one to my wife, which I take with me on our December jaunts.
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