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Despite the cost of living crisis - including crazy postage fees - Hallmark cards say helping the public to send Christmas cheer in the traditional way is still a big business for them
The year 1843 was a good one for Christmas. Dickens’s legendary festive tale, A Christmas Carol, was published and the first commercially produced Christmas card was launched. Today, an estimated one billion cards are sent each year in the UK alone. By the time December 25 comes around, mantelpieces across the country are bedecked with images of chirruping robins, snow scenes, angels and, of course, Father Christmas himself. But such festive creations are a far cry from their Victorian forebears
It is tempting to think life in the 21st century is a world away from the 1800s, but despite the communication revolution that we are all living through,