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Friday, 23 January 2009 |
By Victor Epand
 According to the Greeting Card Association, over ninety one percent of all house holds in the United States buy greeting cards each year at some point. In fact, with American consumers purchasing approximately seven billion greeting cards each year.
In the United Kingdom, a typical year will see over two billion cards sold. Between just those two countries, if the purchased cards were aligned end to end, then they would stretch around the world fifty four times. Greeting cards have the ability to bring many people joy by lifting their spirits, wishing them well, and adding to celebratory events.
However, beyond the typically gouge me prices that all of us seem to pay when we go out and purchase a paper greeting card, then are there any other drawbacks to this global blizzard of snail mailed greeting cards? Yep, and we will lay those out, but lest you think we are about to tell you that greeting cards are evil and you should stop sending them, let us reassure you that this is not the case. In fact, you will still be required |
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