Holiday Card-Sending Statistics

  1. Christmas
    1.6 billion
    (includes boxed & individual cards)
  2. Valentine's Day
    151 million
    (without classroom valentines)
  3. Mother's Day
    141 million
  4. Father's Day
    93 million
  5. Easter
    57 million
  6. Halloween
    17 million
  7. Thanksgiving
    13 million
  8. St. Patrick's Day
    7 million
How does a holiday become a card-sending occasion?

Holidays & Occasions

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Upcoming Holidays & Occasions

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Holidays

Please note: Dates provided indicate the first full day of the holiday. The observance of Jewish and Muslim holidays begins at sunset of the previous day.

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May Holidays

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Fun Fact

The Hall Brothers "invented" modern gift wrap during Christmas 1917 when they ran out of solid-colored tissue paper and started selling decorated envelope linings.