“Mail Call” was one of the favorite announcements for sailors at sea. I know it was mine aboard the USS Boxer (LPH-4 ’63-‘65). I don’t think the Navy, or anyplace else, has “E-mail call” although email is the most widely used method of personal communication these days.
Many people today use email, Facebook Messenger or text message as their preferred method of communication because it is so much easier to type “Happy Birthday” or “Happy Anniversary”, “Happy Thanksgiving” or “Merry Christmas” and hit “Send” than to go to a card shop or drug store and paw through dozens of greeting cards to find “the right one” to send. Then you get to address the envelope, stick a stamp on it and find a mail box to send it. Then the recipient gets to read the same words that hundreds or thousands of others are reading because the “Hallmark” or other card writer came up with the flowery words that caused you to say “Awwww” “this one’s good”.
What if you sent a simple, random card, in your own handwriting, even if it was only 1 line saying nothing more than “Here’s a card just for the hell of it, just because I’ve been thinking about you”? “Happy Birthday or (fill in the event) from me to you”. Who knows, you might even have a flash-back to a day, or an event you shared with that person and add a few lines saying “remember the time we………”?
How many times have you heard “It’s the thought that counts”? Only you can make it count.
Our line of 5x7 blank notecards now offers more than 100 choices of Annie’s artwork prints (with more being added all the time) giving you the opportunity to send the gift of your own words to that someone special in a card that will not be the same as the card being read by a thousand other people. When we came up with the idea of using Annie's unique artworks to create the line of cards, we decided to purposely have blank notecards instead of the traditional greeting cards. We are not presumptuous enough to think that our words can replace your own words to convey to your loved ones just what they mean to you. Try it, you might like it.
Frank and Annie
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