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global1

(25,991 posts) Wed Dec 25, 2024, 01:08 PM Dec 25

Remember Back When The U.S. Post Office Made Two Deliveries Per Day Around Christmas...... [View all]

just to deliver all the Christmas Cards that were sent around Christmas.

Those days are over. Every year the Christmas Cards I receive are getting sparser and sparser. I just got 10 this year. I used to get close to 100.

Too expensive now. Card prices are up and so are postage stamps.

I've made a decision only to send e-cards and only to people that sent me a card.

With the money I save on cards and postage - I make a donation to a charity.

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Remember Back When The U.S. Post Office Made Two Deliveries Per Day Around Christmas...... [View all] global1 Dec 25 OP

I haven't gotten or sent a Christmas card in years. CrispyQ Dec 25 #1

Important docu about how GOP systematically destroyed the USPS (and they still are) CousinIT Dec 25 #2

I can remember back when first class stamps were 3 cents. Sneederbunk Dec 25 #3

I remember an am & pm usps delivery 6 days / week SheltieLover Dec 25 #4

I should have read the replies; I just posted the same. LoisB Dec 25 #9

I got 12 generic Christmas cards for $1.25 at Dollar Tree. LeftInTX Dec 25 #5

Decrease in xmas cards has nothing to do with cost JI7 Dec 25 #6

weird as hell to see nostalgia for the 1950s on DU onenote Dec 25 #7

I remember when mail was delivered twice a day, 6 days a week. LoisB Dec 25 #8