The New Year is ushered in by exchanging postcards with everyone you can think of. It is a great way to keep in touch with people you don't meet with often. Once a year, you send a greeting and they return it. Businesses do it too - we get cards from the gas company and phone representative as well as friends and relatives.
You can see the tiger motif is popular since it is the year of the tiger. With the popularity of home PCs, most people print out messages and designs but just a few years ago, these were all meticulously handwritten and calligraphed. There was a lot of effort that went into them that is now replaced with "control-P".
Most people maintain elaborate lists of names, checking off who returned a card and who didn't so you can plan who will get a card the following year. If someone died during the year, then you don't send a card to their family until the next year.
I don't get any these days because I'm not teaching. I send some Christmas cards but am not in the habit of doing this. My husband and daughter received theirs - about a 150 cards this morning. The post office has special delivery for just postcards on Jan. 1.
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