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About National Card Reading Day
Family & Friends , United States
Ends: Feb 21, 2025
DESCRIPTION:
Greeting cards first appeared in China and Egypt over 2,000 years ago to send greetings during celebrations like the Chinese New Year. By the 15th century, Europeans began exchanging cards made of paper, wood, and other materials. The oldest existing greeting card is a Valentine sent during the 1400s.
Fast forward to 1843, three years after the introduction of the first postage stamp. Sir Henry Cole saw an opportunity in Victorian England and created the first commercially available Christmas Cards. The same year Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol.
Christmas Cards and greeting cards were sold on a mass scale beginning in the early 20th century. They were still costly for the average person until 1910 when Joyce C Hall started his first card business with a shoe box full of cards. By 1912 his brothers joined him, and the business grew. By the 1920s, most people could afford cards, and in 1928 the company began marketing cards under the Hallmark Name. And the rest is history.
National Card Reading Day is an unofficial holiday with no sponsor.
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Infographic on the Origin of Christmas Cards
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