Merry Christmas!
Christmas has come and gone along with its traditions and new adventures. One of the traditions of the season is sending Christmas cards. Did you ever wonder why we send Christmas cards? Apparently, it dates back to 1843 in Victorian England. Sir Henry Cole, a civil servant, found himself overwhelmed by the volume of holiday letters he was expected to answer. The new "penny post" system made mail cheap and popular, thus everyone was writing to everyone else. To save time, Cole commissioned an artist to design a ready-made holiday greeting card - the first commercially produced Christmas card. Affordable postage made sending cards accessible to regular people and industrial printing advances made colorful cards cheap to produce. While physical cards have diminished over the years and have been replaced by digital technology, cards still remain popular - especially photo cards. The Fagella household has sent holiday photoca...