Handwritten corporate holiday cards, at any volume

To send handwritten corporate holiday cards at volume, finalize your list and copy by mid-November, choose stationery that matches your brand, and have each card written individually with a real pen, so every client gets their name and a line meant for them rather than a printed greeting with a stamped signature.

Why most business holiday cards get ignored

December is the busiest month of the year for mail, and most of it looks the same: a printed photo card, a printed message, a printed signature. Recipients can tell in a second that nobody wrote it. A card written to them by name, with one sentence about the year you had together, is different, and that is the one that stays on the shelf into January.

The obstacle has always been time. Signing and writing 300 cards by hand takes a team days. A robot holding a real pen writes each card individually, from a list you provide, so every card is personal without anyone losing an evening to it.

Plan it in five steps

1. Build the list now. Name, mailing address, and who in your company knows them. Add one detail per row if you can: the project, the milestone, how long you have worked together.
2. Write two or three versions of the note. Clients, partners and team members each deserve their own wording. Keep it to three or four sentences and sign it from a person. More in how to write a handwritten note.
3. Choose the stationery. Holidays are the moment for a premium card: heavy stock, a foil greeting, a debossed logo, a colored envelope with a wax seal. See stationery options or try combinations in the card creator.
4. Decide on a gift. A gift card or small item in the envelope, or a box of branded merch for your top accounts. We can produce and pack both with the card; see campaigns.
5. Lock the timing. Cards should arrive before people leave for the holidays. Work backwards from the second week of December, leave room for proofs and production, and add extra time for international mail.

What to write

A holiday card does not need to sell anything. The best ones do three things: thank the person for something specific, look ahead to next year, and wish them well. For example:

Hi Morgan, thank you for a wonderful year working together. The launch in June was a highlight for our whole team. We cannot wait for what is next. Happy holidays to you and the family. Alex

Avoid emoji and decorative symbols: the pen writes letters, numbers and common punctuation. Accents are handled automatically.

Volumes and pricing

Handwritten holiday cards on our standard card are priced like any other note: all-in, including postage, from $3.25 each down to $1.95 at volume in the US. Premium stationery, foil, debossing and inserts are quoted per campaign. The cost calculator shows the standard price for your volume.

Send from a list or from your systems

Most teams send holiday cards from a list. If your client data lives in a CRM, the same cards can be sent by API or through Zapier, which also makes it easy to send a thank-you to every new client next year.

Planning holiday cards? Send us your list size and date and we will come back with stationery options, a proof and a price.