The
first Christmas card was printed in England in 1843, for a busy man called Sir
Henry Cole.
Because he was such a busy man he wanted to save some of the time he had to
spend on his Christmas correspondence.
However his motive was not merely to ease the burden of his letter writing he
was also a tremendous advocate of the slowly expanding postal system.
Sir Henry Cole's first commercial Christmas card sold 1000 copies at one
shilling each.
But it was not until the 1860s that card production accelerated with the advent
of cheaper printing methods.
Then in 1870 a half penny stamp for sending cards was introduced by the Post
Office.
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