The Anatomy of a Christmas Card

EACH YEAR IN FINLAND SANTA RECEIVES 600,000 CARDS THE ANATOMY OF A 45% OF ALL CARDS SENT CHRISTMAS CARD ARE CHRISTMAS CARDS At 10 seconds a card it would take one person working non-stop from Christmas Day until mid March to open them and an 80km long mantelpiece to display them all. from moo.com 1.5 BILLION... ONLY 15 % OF CARDS ARE JUST 72% OF CARDS WERE That's more than any other type of greetings card! 8-24 YEAR OLDS BOUGHT BY MEN SENT IN THE US INTEND TO SEND THE WORLDS CHRISTMAS CARDS SMALLEST COMPARED TO COMPARED TO 91% CHRISTMAS CARD OF OVER 55s Ist WOULD FIT INTO A 678.9 MILLION IN UK 1st CLASS STAMP THE UK IN 2010 1mm 8,000 TIMES Official Christmas English school children write messages to Louis Prang is John C. Hall and two Block printing sending of New Years One Penny Post allows practicaly One of the Sir Henry Cole's first Christme Cards sold at auction First Official White allou Card tradition more than 5 of create House car issued their families on initiated by million Christmas anyone to send a Christmas Card by President Eisenhower Hallmark Cards in Cards in Germany bordered paper Queen Victoria Cards a year Kansas, USA for £22,500 In Pagan Britain good luck charms are given during Winter Solstice First commercial Louis Prang The Royal Mail deals with 11 million World famous One of Sir Henry Coles early cards is sold for £2,000 at 1.5 Billion Christmas Religious families in Germany send New year cards depicting Jesus brings Christmas Card production to Christmas Cards UNICEF launch their Cards are sent in commissioned by Sir Henry Cole charity Christmas Card program Colour is added to cards during the the United States engraved borders America festive season auction in London each year 1820s 1840s 1843 1870 1875 1881 1915 1949 1953 1987 2001 2010 1500s 1600s 1700s 1800s 1900s 2000s THE MOST EXPENSIVE CARD IN THE UK AN ESTIMATED $80 MILLION (£50M) IS RAISED IN 2008 THE AVERAGE US FAMILY SPENT $32.43 ON CHRISTMAS CARDS compared to £14 ($22.50) THE MOST CARDS WAS SOLD AT AUCTION SENT BY ONE PERSON FOR $35,800 (£22,500) It was one of the first ever commercial IN A YEAR IS 62,824 Nearly enough to cover a football pitch. BY CHRISTMAS CARDS Christmas cards, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 and sent to his grandmother. The artwork was by John Callcott Horsley. FOR CHARITIES EACH for British families YEAR. Sources: www.oxfam.org.uk, www.posti.fi, www.greetingcordassociation.org.uk, somethingold.wordpress.com, www.history.uk.com, www.emotionscords.com, www.worldcollectorsnetcom, www.whychristmas.com, www.greetingscords.co.uk, en.wikipedio.org/wiki/Christmas cord, www.worldrecordsacademy.org