# When Do You Send Holiday Cards? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027 "2005-11-28T06:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Lioness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Little\_Lioness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Lioness)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/1 "2005-11-28T06:36:19Z")
What do you think the earliest reasonable date to send Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Kwanzaa cards is? I thought maybe December 1st? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/2 "2005-11-28T12:39:39Z")
I personally only give cards to my immediate family, whom I hand the cards to on Christmas morning. My mom, however, is one of those women who mail 14 gazillion cards out every year. She plans to mail them sometime in early December. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/3 "2005-11-28T12:42:22Z")
Back when I was an organized woman with a life and everything, I always wrote out my cards on Thanksgiving Day after the food, and mailed them no later than the tenth of December. Nowadays I have been known to mail them three days after Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/4 "2005-11-28T13:02:54Z")
Well, this is pretty much the first year I’ve ever done anything of the sort - I married into a family that is really big on card-sending, and I’m pretty much just catching on to this now. How fast do those suckers go within the country, anyway? I’ve only ever sent cards for whatever reason internationally before, and I had to make sure to send them two or three weeks ahead if I wanted to get them to their destination on time. With that in mind, I mailed them the day after Thanksgiving. Are they going to make it to their destination like, tomorrow? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/5 "2005-11-28T14:43:41Z")
I’ll get mine out by the 15th - except for the one going to Japan. That one goes out by this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![VegaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@VegaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegaBean)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/6 "2005-11-28T15:51:46Z")
I’m happy to wait until New Years. I’m not big on the holidays, being a different faith. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Lioness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Little\_Lioness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Lioness)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-send-holiday-cards/333027/7 "2005-11-28T16:15:39Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Well, this is pretty much the first year I’ve ever done anything of the sort - I married into a family that is really big on card-sending, and I’m pretty much just catching on to this now. > > How fast do those suckers go within the country, anyway? I’ve only ever sent cards for whatever reason internationally before, and I had to make sure to send them two or three weeks ahead if I wanted to get them to their destination on time. > > With that in mind, I mailed them the day after Thanksgiving. Are they going to make it to their destination like, tomorrow? :eek: I usually send mail along the east coast, from a suburb to a suburb, so it takes 1-2 days. Mail across the country, or from a suburb to a rural area seems to take 2-4 days. That’s just my experience though. Are you in Norway or the U.S.? If you’re in America, your family will probably get their cards today or tomorrow. I hope that you had fun with your first year of sending holiday cards 🙂 I love choosing the picture for custom cards (Kinkos has a good deal) and addressing the envelopes while watching classic holiday movies (is Bad Santa a classic yet?).