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There are many ways these days to send a greeting card to someone. Of course you can use the traditional way of sending greetings by mailing a traditional paper card but you also have to spend the gas to go to the store to pick one out or you have to order them online and then pay for the card or probably more likely a box of cards then you will have to pay the shipping to get them to you. Then you have to pay the postage to send them out to their recipients.It is much more fun to choose a text greetings card that is available to send to another mobile phone. The good thing about this is that while you may have to pay for the m-card you do not have to pay for shipping and postage because it .. more»

Just about everyone enjoys receiving a greeting card. Nearly, 9 out of 10 Americans say they look forward to receiving cards. Exchanging greeting cards is one of the most widely accepted ways of expressing how important someone is to us. As a matter of fact, in the US consumers purchase and exchange 7 billion greeting cards each year. That’s an average of 30 greeting card purchases per household. When I receive a greeting card I feel important because I know someone is thinking of me. I usually hold on to the card for a few days and display it so I may look at it. Then I have to make the decision whether to discard or keep the card. Like many of us who have limited storage space, I have to be selective about what I keep. Unfortunately, most times I find .. more»

  History of the Greeting Card! The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400's handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe. The Germans are known to have printed New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400 and handmade paper Valentines were being exchanged in various parts of Europe in the early to mid-1400. By the 1850's the greeting card had been transformed from a relative expensive, hand made and hand delivered gift to a popular and affordable means of personal communication, due largely to advances in printing and mechanization, as well as the 1840 introduction of the postage stamp. Technical developments like color lithography in 1930 propelled the manufactured greeting card .. more»