A-Z of British Etiquette
Thankfully, we are still in an age where people send these and they are yet to be replaced with a festive direct message or wintery pokes.
Below are the six biggest faux pas people make when sending their Christmas cards:
Not picking charity Christmas cards
Besides bestowing yuletide felicitations upon your loved ones, the other purpose of such a card is to support charities, and many cards available will give a percentage cut of the profits to charity. But there are some cards available that are not supporting charities, so make sure you pick wisely.
Incorrect envelope flaps
Make sure your envelope flaps are triangular, rather than straight, as the former type of flap is for social correspondence, whereas straight ones are for business letters.
Printed signatures
Some people, with more money and less manners than sense, actually have their signatures printed in the card to save time. It may save time but it just looks rude. Don’t bother to send cards if you can’t be bothered to write them properly.
No names
Similarly, choosing not to address the card to the recipient and just scribbling your signature is just as bad and very impersonal.
eCards
They are not the same as a proper Christmas card. For a start, you can’t display it around the house to make your sitting room or hallway look festive, but also eCards don’t have the charity element to it, like with proper cards (see faux pas #1).
Newsletters
If you feel you need to write to your address book with a chirpy Christmas newsletter, which will often boast of the family triumphs over the past 12 months, then it’s probably time you had a review of your contacts. People should know what’s going on in your life as you talk to them throughout the year, and not find out that Debbie’s delivered from a Christmas newsletter. Charities and organisations have newsletters, not families.
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