Holiday Hello a Click Away

The trouble started last year, when you couldn’t bring yourself to look at another Christmas card, even if it was half off. And this year, well, you thought you had bought cards last year, and by the time you realized you hadn’t, it was too late. Sigh.

Nice try. But it’s the digital age, baby, and it is never too late. Just get online, hit https://www.americangreetings.com or https://www.hallmark.com, et voila--visions of sugarplums. Colorful, dancing sugarplums, just a few taps and an e-mail address away from delivering holiday greetings to all your friends and neighbors.

At American Greetings, for just $19.95, you get access to the company’s entire card selection for six whole months. Recipients don’t even have to have a computer because included in that $19.95 are two snail-mail paper greeting cards, which American Greetings prints out and mails for you.

At Hallmark, the single-image cards are free; the animated greetings are $2.50 each. And you can order holiday, or any other type of card, in advance.

So really, short of a monthlong power failure, you’ve just run out of excuses. Happy holidays.