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Originally Posted by sanddrag
It's a really nice idea but I see it as highly inefficient. It is a card exchanged for a card; but these cards are exchanged over hundreds if not thousands of miles. Just the cost in fuel for planes and trucks to deliver these cards is enourmous, not to mention the salaries for the people driving these trucks and flying these planes. If everybody just kept their money and bought themselves cards, everyone would avoid the cost of postage, the post office would avoid the cost of fuel and employees, and everyone would still have a card.
This is a prime example of why more people should practice the "selfish Christmas" See, it is just a big swapping party anyhow, so if everyone just bought something for themselves, they would all end up with exactly what they wanted.  |
Oh, the horror!
If we all did that, then those poor people driving those trucks and flying those planes and all of those postal employees would be laid off because there was no work for them to do... and the fuel companies would have to raise their costs all around to make up for the loss... everyone would suffer...
I think a smile is well worth the cost of a card and a stamp! And I love giving presents, yes, I love it more than receiving presents (though I do like that part too, I'm not completely unselfish!).
Heidi