I usually send holiday cards and many times add a little note to make my clients feel special.  I sign all my cards to give it a more personal touch.  In January, I'll send out my winter newsletter with a Happy New Year.

Chris,

I had Color For Real Estate produce Holiday cards for me this year, with my photo, phone and email on the inside, no company logo, and return address labels with my brokerage address - I like them, they look good, the return address label matches the design on the front of the card, and I'm sending them to my customers, SOI, and other influencers.

If you haven't decided by now to send a holiday card ....your too LATE, unless you don't mind being fashionably Late.....Or send a New Years Card.

Sean Allen

We sent our refrigerator calendars

I think you have answered your own question, but I am not 100% sure.  "I personally don't like some of the cards that come in the mail and find them quite offensive and have removed the people who sent me the card from my preferred vendor's list because of it." If you are offended by a gesture others have made, why would you consider the same gesture? I find nothing offensive of wishing someone a happy holiday season or new year, but that's just me :)

42 cents postage - I wasn't going to card this year but my husband insisted i had to.

New Year cards are great.  But I often think cards for the "off" occasions are best.  The clients B-Day, anniversary, 1st day of Spring, Just thinking of you....type of cards.

Chris, I send Christmas cards...and I let PC fly out the window! It is what it is...if you take Christ out of Christmas then we don't have a holiday.

Actually they put christ into a holiday that was already there. So if you took christ out of xmas you would have a holiday and you would not have a need for PCness.

I like recieving cards.  I hang up all the cards I get, even whrn they are not addressed to me.  I was going to send them this year but I got busy and never got them addressed.  I think next year I will slip them into our personal list and have my wife address them for me. 

I don't think many people are really that offended to get a "Christmas" card.  If it offended somebody they are more than welcome to tell me about it and I will apoligize.  I get a couple of Hanukka cards every year from friends, I have never found them offensive.  They hang alongside all the other Christmas Cards.  I think the PCness of the holidays are overblown. 

I discovered a great way to send cards this past year.  It's an online business that scans in your own handwriting, so you can send personalized cards, in your handwriting, for cheap.  The cards are high quality (same you'd get at a Hallmark type store) and only cost $.62.  You can even upload your own photos and make your own cards, which eliminates the offensive, standard cards that are clearly from a vendor.

I send Happy New Years cards to all the Realtors with whom I had a cross sale with in '07.  I put a photo of the home we sold on the front with a "Thanks for helping make '07 my best year ever...I hope '08 will be your best."  Fun, easy, done online, mailed for you (with an actual stamp, not the bulk mail thing).

(That's the front of the card that I made)

Feel free to check out the program and even send a few cards yourself from this site.