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CAPaper Christmas Cards Versus eCards
Why a paper Christmas cards when you can email an animated Christmas card straight to your friend’s inbox?
Which is better? A paper Christmas greeting card posted with real postage stamp or an electronic Merry Christmas with fireworks or falling snowflakes?
In this electronic world, sending an e-card is just a click away. And these are animated greeting cards that are so interesting and attractive. There are sound, movement and visual. The only thing lacking is the feel of paper.
So why bother to go out and shop for paper Christmas cards? Even so why go to all the trouble to make them yourself?
Well, below you’ll see the many pros and cons of sending a paper Christmas card. At the same time, you’ll also see why eCards are still so popular to certain people.
Paper Christmas Cards versus Christmas eCards
The advantages of sending paper christmas greeting cards
It cannot be easily trashed away
It’s more personal
The sender can add a handwritten message and signed by hand
It can be handled
It can be taken out to show to other people
It can be stored in a scrapbook and treasured; and then taken out later to view again and again
The recipient will feel special because the sender had taken the time and effort to choose the card and send it
The card can be a collector item one day
The advantages of sending electronic christmas cards
When printed, it can be stored in a scrapbook and treasured; and then taken out later to view again and again
It reaches the recipient instantly
It doesn’t cost a cent to send the ecard
It does not need much effort and time on the sender’s part to send it
It can be sent out at the last minute
It takes a shorter time to send out to all the people in the christmas card list
The disadvantages of sending paper christmas greeting cards
It’s more expensive especially with the rising cost of postage
The sender got to go to the shop to buy the card
If homemade, need to gather cardmaking supplies and spend time designing and making it
The sender needs to go out to post the card
It takes longer to reach the recipient
The card can be lost or damaged in the post
The disadvantages of sending electronic christmas cards
It can be easily trashed away
It’s not personal at all
the sender cannot add a handwritten message and cannot signed by hand unless hand signature is scanned in
It cannot be handled
It cannot be taken out to show to other people unless printed out but then it won’t be so special
The recipient might not open it fearing that it might contains a virus
The ecard might not be opened because it could be filtered into the recipient’s junk folder
The ecard cannot be a collector item one day
I’m sure you will be able to add more to the lists above and come to a decision whether you would continue sending out ecards or spend some time this festive season to shop for paper christmas cards, handwrite a personal message and post them.
Or you might go even further – gather your cardmaking supplies, design a christmas greeting card and make a batch of them. Then leisurely include a handwritten christmas greetings, address the envelopes and stick a postage stamp on each envelope, seal it and send them out to bring holiday cheer to those far and near.
Do it! Touch some people this Christmas. Show them you care.
