Are event announcements really necessary anymore?

[KathrynAragon]

OP have you ever sent a gift for a special occasion to anyone in your family in France? If so, please tell us the details. Thanks!

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by Blondy

Pretty mind boggling. I actually cannot remember specifically learning how to address and post something to be mailed. Maybe it was simply through observation.

I remember learning this in school - really early, like in the second grade. Probably about the same time I was learning how to write in cursive!

[bookspage]

Originally Posted by Formerly Known As Twenty

It surprises me how rarely I've received a "thank you" (via either an email, a call or the cards that are provided when wedding invitations are ordered) for wedding gifts over the past few years as it used to be standard to receive one from either the bride or the groom within the space of a few months.

I try to be pretty easy going with thank you messages for other gifts (birthdays, graduation). But I admit I draw the lines at weddings. If someone makes the effort to either go to a wedding and give a gift, or even just send a gift (which are usually substantial), they can figure out how to handwrite a thank you note and put it in the mail.

[CatzPaw]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I remember learning this in school - really early, like in the second grade. Probably about the same time I was learning how to write in cursive!

This was the case for me, too. It was not so much "how to address an envelope" as simply another exercise in practicing cursive.

[fleetiebelle]

Originally Posted by E-Twist

I heard a joke the other day. Cursive writing is a secret code old people use.

I'm an archivist by trade, and we all have stories about younger patrons who cannot read original handwritten documents. It's as if we've handed them a folder of papers written in Russian.

[wasel]

If you are firmly opposed to sending announcements, then don't.

I don't see how anyone's gift giving behavior would change your belief system.