Fascinating Stories of Christmas Customs & The Art of Talking with Children - SYSK Choice

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Another one of them is right around the mid to late 19th century, lithography, a printing technique, was coming into its own, which allowed pretty cheap and efficient color printing. And that's right around the time there were certain postal reforms in the UK. The invention of the postage stamp, a uniform price to send things to and fro, coincided with the creation of the first Christmas card.