With the cost of the US Mail going up, and the cost of Christmas cards going up, my wife and I are thinking about using postcards instead of traditional Christmas cards this year.  We can get customized postcard printing on the Internet with our choice of designs – even custom photographs of us sitting in front of our fireplace, or a photograph us sitting in front of  our own Christmas tree with all of the handmade ornaments on it.  We always have such a great tree, chock full of hand made ornaments; everyone who sees it likes to spend a lot of time looking at all of the different ornaments.