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Have you sent your Christmas Cards Yet?

Christmas is nearly upon us and it's time to think about sending your Christmas cards if you haven't already done so.

The Greeting Card Association have been running a campaign to encourage card publishers and retailers to send their Christmas cards early this year so as to remind people not to forget sending theirs. There are around 100,000 people working directly and indirectly with our industry. If each of us sent 10 Christmas cards in the first week of December it would have a fantastic ripple effect from those first million gestures.

At Blue Eyed Sun we decided to get into the Christmas spirit ourselves on Tuesday and held a 'christmas card writing hour' for our staff to write and send cards to their family and loved ones. We sponsored the cards, their time and the postage. All our team had to do was to write as many cards as they wanted to in the hour. We managed 107 Christmas cards between us, which have been winging their way via Royal Mail this week to their lucky recipients.

Our team had a lot of fun doing this together. Kathy and Danni even brought in homemade Christmas mince pies and jam tarts. We also put up a Christmas tree and wore Santa hats to get into festive mood. It's so heart warming to think about all of the love going out into the world from this short amount of time dedicated to card sending rather than card making and we'd recommend it to all publishers and retailers who read this blog.

Even if you are not in the card industry, it is a great time of year to connect with your customers, friends and loved ones. Send them a nice Christmas card with a warm message in it expressing your gratitude and wishing them all the best for 2013. Do it this week. Spread that festive cheer around the world. Come on. You know you want to :)

There are only a few days left to get cards in the post though, so do get started this week. I've listed the Royal Mail's last posting dates below. You can download the last UK posting dates in a PDF by clicking here.

Find out more about Blue Eyed Sun's Christmas cards for 2012 here. Available at all good gift shops and card retailers.

Worried about the cost? Read the truth about How Royal Mail's price increases affect your card sending costs here.