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hi wmmm economist sunlsuntribune business friday dec 26 2003 all study shows internet wont kill greeting cards fromptfal only 25 per cent san francisco resident frans werner erhard mailed 62824 christmas cards in 1975 not because he had that many friends which would have made for a great christmas story but simply so he could beat the guinness record for the rest of us the tradi tion of mailing christmas cards to people we know is still very much alive even with the arrival of the internet the novelty of ecards sending greetings by email has worn out and the ecard indus try is declining said oeidre parks of hallmark cards people have returned to the traditional paper card in fact a survey conducted in york region helped prove the internet will not be the death knell of the paper christmas card in a twoyear study in a newmarket subdivision that became a computer communi ty in the mid to late 1990s- university of toronto professor barryvvellman discovered wired residents were more active in the community had more neighbourhood social ties and communicated with those ties more frequendy than non- wired citizens computers were getting people back into the habit of correspondence by writing e- mail and electronic greetings are complementing paper greeting cards not replacing them mr wellman wrote still america online inc says it has 2000 ecards in 140 categories for the 50 per cent of markham activist remembered staff photosteve somerviue the human services planning coalition presented jean bowman of markham a framed edition of its report in memory of her late husband sam who was a social activist in markham and the region the coalition held a press conference at the regional building to announce the release of this report f leading the way in the fight against muscular dystrophy thousands of canadians are fighting every day against the progressive effects of muscular dystrophy they count on the support of fire fighters in their battle against muscular dystrophy and more 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able to personalize and print their own greetings through a create and print pro gram said molly mcmachon of aol deborah thompson man ager of marketing and commu nications at carlton cards canada said there will always be snailmail christmas cards we havent noticed a drop at all she said people either do both send electronic messages and tradi tional cards or just stick to cards anyone can press a couple of buttons and mats not really what the tradition is all about ms thompson said 81 per cent of canadian households mail christmas cards each year and 93 per cent of all cards are bought by women across canada well send more than 100 million cards this season with each household sending and receiving an aver age of 18 cards a random sampling of peo ple selecting- cards at the carlton and hallmark card loca tions at markhams markvule- mall last week restored our faith in the tradition of giving at christmas of more than 20 people asked why do you send christmas cards 75 per cent said it 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