postage and post age

Using the incentive to send our Xmas card to also send out our thank you notes from the wedding. The other incentive is that postage rates are going up by 2 cents January 8, 2006, which isn't much but multiplies when you're sending out over 100. Fortunately my handwriting dexterity is not completely shot from touch typing on keyboards all day, but still I can only really get through 30 or so cards a day. It's the first time we're seriously sending out Christmas cards, mostly because we have a cute picture to send it with.

So I find myself checking the list twice. After we sent the wedding invites we had quite a few bounce backs and ones that never made it because well, we had the wrong address entirely. The nice part is that we'll have a very up to date list of snail mails for everyone. Now I know why my mother had a roladex.

I think about this list of addresses. Before I never really thought of keeping up with the family addresses, well, because, my mother had them. But something in me, tells me that I need to start up my own roladex of names and addresses. They might just be Christmas cards, but in this day and age of electronic communication they seem to carry more and more weight, a symbol of the connection that we have with these people. That for a few minutes in our day, we stopped, thought of them long enough to find a card, handwrite their address with a short note or two, and take a walk to the mailbox.