Growing up back in the day, my mother and grandmother would get so excited to get Christmas cards from family members that lived out of town as well as friends that had moved away.
I mean there was always the saying, be nice or I will take you off my Christmas card list. When I moved into my first house as an adult there were still tons of Christmas cards coming to the house, and it was the time when people started sending the family letter which was all about what great things their family had done in the past year.