Caroline O'Donoghue: Greeting cards I require for 2021
I found out yesterday that my local sorting office all got Covid just before Christmas. Every last employee had to be quarantined and some interns were apparently brought in to deal with the Christmas post. This is both amazing, and also, explains a lot. Since the New Year, I’ve been receiving battered-looking packages that were posted by friends and family in late November. Some of these people had been on — has your present arrived yet? Are you sure you gave me the right address? — but other people hadn’t been in touch at all. As soon as I unwrap the boxes, I feel a flush of terrible shame. The idea that people I love have sent me gifts, assumed I received them, and then simply didn’t say thank you is utterly mortifying.
I have sent a lot of cards in the last year, and it strikes me that there are too few cards for the kinds of society we now have. What I want is a box of five cards that say: Thank You!
