do you have a spare Christmas card?

[Tri Girl]

I'm not even doing the Christmas card exchange, but I'm doing to do this for sure. I've got a whole box from last year that need a good home. Do you think I could stuff a whole bunch of cards in a big manilla envelope and send them at once?

[Trek420]

That's a great idea, Mimi. And does not surprise me that such a considerate idea comes from you. You rock!

Knott reminds me to say, send non-denominational New Years cards, and Hannuckah cards. Some of those guys (in the non gender specific senbse of the word) are Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, Hindu .... Rosicruchian ("would you like to meet my Mummy?" sorry to any Rosicrucians I may have offended).

[mimitabby]

Trek that's where I'm coming from, I'm not a Christmas person, not even christian by a long shot. But being all messed up and stuck in a hospital? That's tough.

[sundial]

This was a great idea....BUT....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/chris...ldiercards.asp

[Tri Girl]

I guess they can't be too sure in this crazy day and age. My DH works for the postal service and said that those types of letters probably get thrown into the same bin as the Dear Santa letters (and I was going to send some). Sad when we live in such a society that we can't send our thoughts to recovering soldiers for fear of it being destructive in nature.

[Grog]

My DH works for the postal service and said that those types of letters probably get thrown into the same bin as the Dear Santa letters (and I was going to send some).

In Canada you can write to Santa:
http://www.canadapost.ca/dec/santa/w...cid=hd07000327

Most kids receive a pretty standard letter back in the mail (at least I did in the days) but they make sure they catch letters like: "I would like a friend because I'm so very lonely" and write a lot more personal letters back...

Nobody has tried to send a poisoned letter to Santa here... yet.

[Trek420]

in Canada kids can write letters to Santa and in Canada you can write to "any soldier" and in Canada there's health care and..... we're just patiently waiting here. Please invade and take us over ;-)

Meanwhile I'm cascading back down the e-mail list my "oops, my bad" note this came in and it works!!

Something Xerox is doing so I went to the website. The cards are drawn by kids and are so cute.

You go to the web site www.letssaythanks.com

Pick out a thank you card, Xerox will print it send it to a soldier serving in Iraq. You can't choose who gets it, and apparently it does not go to members serving in other areas but it does go to a member of the armed services.