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Are email greetings as acceptable as card greetings?
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Posted by tobr24u z6 RI (My Page) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 6:49
| With almost everybody I know now doing email it seems to me that a personal email greeting (not one message sent to all) makes sense these days, do you agree? |
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| Yes. It's not the mode of greetings, it's the thought that matters. I don't support the USPS waste policy. So I email, online bank, opt out of all junk mail, etc. |
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| no handmade individual cards are the way I prefer to go. (play your cards right , and you MIGHT receive one ) |
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| E-mail greetings are much preferable to those ghastly "this is what my super-achieving family did this year" letters. So much easier to delete one of those than to tear it up and trash it! |
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| youngquinn, I like the handmade cards! My wife's coworker offers those for less than a $1 and they are always beautiful. |
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| I keep all the letters that are mailed to me. I throw away all bank statements. :) It's great for a day of bad weather or illness to sit back and read just how much people love me. :) Hand-written letters are best for sure! |
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| I will continue to be old-fashioned and enjoy giving and receiving many beautiful hand-made and hand-written Xmas cards, as usual. Most of my close friends agree. It's well worth the effort, IMHO. If I just sent e-mails, a huge part of the joy of the holiday season would be missing. I usually send out over 60 greeting cards each year, many overseas. |
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 12:56
| I use Guggenheim eCards as my main business and personal eCard source, I like Guggey as they're free and have a very nice selection and format for messaging. My sister uses an ecard site that she pays a yearly fee for, but they have some very awesome java cards that are interactive and quite often hilarious. She sends all her cards through this site--the yearly site fee is well below what she would spend in stamps. So, depending upon your needs, and your family or business ideology about economics and conservation, ecards may do it for you. eCards enhance my communications. I usually combine my business messaging, first sending an ecard to acknowledge receiving a donation, but then I also send an itemized receipt in the mail. I could send out hundreds of holiday greeting cards for the business, but I can't afford it. eCards fill that gap and allow me to personalize a message. So, instead two days of writing out actual cards, I can spend a day sending personalized eCards, save my wrists, save some trees, I don't add to the carbon footprint, and I keep a few hundred dollars for the paper cards and their stamps in my pocket. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Guggeneheim eCards
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| For a quick "thinking of you!" for no reason, I think the message via the internet is fine. But, to me personally, nothing can replace the short note in a stamped envelope which has been addressed by hand. It's one of the financially cheapest of ways available to anyone to bring a smile to a friend or loved one and will probably be more longer remembered and more deeply felt than an internet card - which (perhaps) gets more quickly deleted from both the pc and the mind than does a pretty notecard with blank inside in order to write a quick, personal message. These days, I very rarely ever get a "paper" note anymore from a friend or family who are far away, but I send out several a month. I suspect I'm one of the last around who does this - I enjoy the process. |
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| They seem kind of lazy, but a regular card with just a signature and no news is pretty pointless, too. |
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| Although we do everything electronically in this house, I really enjoy receiving Christmas/Holiday cards. It's all that's really left that is not so impersonal. I always write a little note in each and sign it. No email cards from me! Oh, yes, the handmade ones are awesome. I do scrapbook and stamp so every once in a while, I'll send those out. |
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| Call me old fashioned or just one of the few lone voices crying out in the wilderness to keep the fine art of personal, hand-written communications alive. Even if I could deciper their handwriting, I'd love to get a handwritten thank-you from my nephews for the generous checks I send for birthdays and Christmas. I know email is the accepted route today - but that doesn't mean I have to like it. And yes, spare me the family newsletter. Given my druthers between an email and a family newsletter, I'll take (and most often delete) the email. |
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| duluth, I'm with you about keeping alive the fine art of personal, hand-written communications. I continue to do my part! IMO, email greetings are lazy and impersonal. I don't send them and I don't want to receive them. |
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No I don't think they're acceptable for a special occasion or holiday. All they announce to me is that you're either too cheap or too lazy or too thoughtless to put any real thought into the greeting whatsoever. The lazymans way out.
If you can't be bothered for any or all of the above reasons then don't send anything. a new twist on an old adage.
It is better to send nothing and be considered thoughtless than to send an E-greeting and remove all doubt. |
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I get beautiful annimated greeting cards from some of my rose friends!
I send some of my photos with Greetings this one covers a lot of bases.
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 21:50
| That's a beautiful picture, what building is that? It seems very famiiliar. |
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| Grace Church Rectory on Broadway and 9th Street in Manhattan |
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- Posted by trudi_d 7, Long Island (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 22:48
| Yep. I thought it was Manhattan--city chuches are magnificent. You'll like this photo--it's an undated stereoscopic--there's no tree in front.
WikiCommons image |
Here is a link that might be useful: Photo Tour of Grace Church.
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- Posted by jodik 5 Central IL (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 20, 09 at 8:49
| While email may be acceptable as a way to send greetings or Ecards... I still prefer old fashioned handwritten cards and letters. I think they're much more personal, and I don't mind the extra effort for people I care about. I like making my own cards, and including a short handwritten note to catch up with family business, or a personal note to friends. |
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| Being current and in the now is great, but there times when tradition should be maintained regardless of the alternatives. IMHO Christmas is one of them |
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tobr24u, I simply must tell of the special relationship I have with my mother-in-law! She is the one person who has consistently expressed great joy at receiving a letter from me. She reciprocates; and at 95 years old, she can still manage well formed letters on a straight line when she sends me a card (which she has to ask someone to chose and purchase for her). Over the years, my own writing has undergone some changes. I started keeping letters on disc some time ago and for everyone else I would print the correspondence and mail it. For her, I would transcribe the effort on to some appealing stationery and mail it out.
Her eyesight is not as good as it used to be so nowadays, I have to increase the font size and reluctantly mail her the impersonal computer-generated document.
Oh! What concessions are wrung from us by the aging process! |
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