Sending Greeting Cards

usmc_mv ViP

Member since 14 June 2013

usmc_mvViP22 December 2013 23:28:33

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Does anyone have suggestions on who I can use to mail holiday greeting cards to family members in the USA? I do not like e-cards and my family has been bold enough to tell me that as well. A little late in the season now, but for future reference.

Thanks!

Fred Indonesia Expert

Member since 02 August 2009

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

FredIndonesia Expert23 December 2013 03:16:58

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Email a picture to a photographic shop, pay by card and have it delivered, nicely framed.
Coreldraw will allow you to create the card.

James ViP

Member since 20 June 2010

Brazil & Canada Expert

JamesViP23 December 2013 07:35:58

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Hi Matt,

First you need to hope you're lucky enough to be able to find Christmas cards in Manaus. If they're availiable at all it will probably be only in stationery shops (papelarias) in the city center or maybe gift shops. Christmas cards have never really been a big tradition here.

If you do find cards and want to send them back home you can use the regular post office and of course as always in Brazil you have to go to them, there's no such thing as buying stamps in advance and mailboxes on every corner like civilized countries. If you use regular mail plan on it taking 3 weeks at the very least to arrive, if you're only sending a couple of cards an don't mind springing for the extra Registered Mail should take around 11 days between Manaus and Chicago. (And we used to complain about the postal system back home! Thinking back I can't even understand why.)

If I were you I would look around now and see if you can find some, hang on to them until next year so you've got them to send off early or you may not find them in stores in time.

Cheers,
James