The tradition of sending a Christmas card is fast dying out with more and more people opting for electronic greetings, but one TD has called on the Irish public to go offline and go back to methods of old and send a Christmas card for a good reason.
The call by Fianna Fáil’s Roscommon-Galway TD Eugene Murphy, is being made as part of campaign to stop the closure of 600 rural post offices around the country.
Mr Murphy says he wants people to post their Christmas cards this year and forget emails or other digital messages: “There’s nothing as nice as being able to get that Christmas card in the post, and you are wondering who it is from and you are looking at the writing on the front of it, it is a great experience.”
“And to open up that card and to be able to say look my friend, a member of my family, whoever, has sent me this card, I think it is a fantastic experience and I don’t think we should let it go.”