Holiday Card Cost - 2024 Holidays
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Anonymous
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How much were your holiday card costs this year? We paid $270 for 100 cards (address and mailed for us because we couldn't agree on a card photo and style in time -- too many cooks with teens in the house). Which is INSANE.
Does anyone else pay for mailed and addressed and how much is reasonable? We use Shutterfly with Costco discount; when Costco did it I think it was cheaper. If we just bought and addressed and mailed ourselves, its $1.22 / card so about $120 for all. Where can we get it cheaper? Its super annoying with Shutterfly because every option adjusts price and there is no "cheapest price" default so there may have been a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure path that could have yielded a cheaper card (it seemed to suggest it) but I could not find it. |
Anonymous
| Minted - was $325 for 150 cards. They are very nice, but expensive. Addressed but I had to add the stamp and mail. |
Anonymous
I guess 100 addressed cards would come with a higher price tag, OP. And you say $270 is with a discount? |
Anonymous
| I bought 130 and it was $1.44 each from Simply to Impress. Not sure how much stamps were, so probably around $250 total. I didn't notice a huge drop pff in people not sending them. |
Anonymous
| Those are insane prices. What is the point of sending holiday greetings though if you never ever even touch the cards yourself? It’s just a mass mailing straight from Shutterfly? |
Anonymous
| Most of them end in the trash. |
Anonymous
I think about every address on our list, I go through it each year and reminisce about the recipient. It’s not like a one click from Amazon. Our family has huge debates on which photos and design which eats up way too much time, and we both work full time so there isn’t a lot of leisure time to spent on licking stamps. Postage alone is $73 so I guess the card and addressing for us is $200. Fundamental we like getting cards and we know sending them is the price of admission. We really don’t care if someone signed it themselves or had a service, just being on their list means a lot to us and we love seeing them (we are not a social media family nor our friends). |
Anonymous
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The Shutterfly Costco discount is a joke. I moved my business from Costco to Sam’s Club (we belong to both) for cards. Sam’s Club is $15 per 25 cards, so 100 cards is $60, including return address. We print the mailing labels ourselves and stick them on. Is it the highest quality cardstock, no, but it’s fine.
I honestly think this might be my last year though. |
Anonymous
If its insane why did you pay that? |
Anonymous
| I used to buy photo cards at CVS that were cheap. I don't know if they can be mailed for you though. |
Anonymous
Because when you start they say $0.65 a card but after spending time loading addresses and trying cards it was a sunk cost. It’s my cheapest option so far, but looking for others experience. For instance minted does not seem cheaper. |
Anonymous
CVS is $1.99 for their cheapest cards on card stock. $1.29 for a 5x7 photo print “card”. Now in years past when money was cheap, I would make my own card in PowerPoint, print that to a JPEG and then print that “card” on a 4x6 photo which was like $0.10, and then by bulk 4x6 envelopes. You could have 100 cards for $15. But they would be glossy print 4x6 photos not actual cards - my teen DD said they would rather not send anything at all then something THAT cheap. So curious if you got a 4x6 photo as a “card” laid out with “Seasons Greetings” like a real photo card, would you give it side eye?? |
Anonymous
| After Shutterfly discounts my cost was $14.51 for 30 cards. That includes pre-addressed envelopes and $9.99 expedited shipping. |
Anonymous
So they were $0.16 a card before shipping?? What codes did you use, way better than Costco!! |
Anonymous
| $113 for 70 cards from Minted. They were addressed but not mailed for us. |