Personalized Paper vs. Email
Most of today’s information is given to you on a constant basis with social media, news feeds, text and email. It is easy to be lost in instant data sent to you by family, friends and colleagues. But there are alternatives that, in some cases; can be better than the common norm. When you need to let your friends or loved ones know that you’re thinking of them, there are a variety of ways for you to do so.
Usually, people use the Internet for most of their communication, but sending a hand written note on personalized paper is an excellent way for you to go above and beyond the protocol to make someone feel particularly special. It will inevitably brighten their day when they open up a card that you especially made for them.
If you opt to use personalized stationery instead of just regular stationery, the card itself will show that you’ve taken time to think about what you’re sending. It will reflect your own personal sense of style and the person who receives it will think of you and the times you’ve shared when they look at it.
They’re also more likely to treasure the note and keep it in a safe place or display it on their desk at work. The investment of time and money you put into creating your stationery will mean so much to those who get them.
Making these personalized cards is also a good investment since you can use them for so many different occasions. You can send them to people when they graduate college, to celebrate the fact that a couple has had a new baby, or to thank people for a gift or kind gesture.
Regardless of the event, if you sit down and write a few sentences to tell someone your thoughts, the extra effort will be greatly appreciated.
Writing on personalized paper can also be a good way to motivate yourself to write in the first place. After you’ve dedicated effort towards making the card just how you want it, you’ll be excited to share the design with your friends.
You’ll want them to see the creativity involved in the process, and it also will be a good reflection of your personality. If, for example, you have put your initials on the bottom of a card, it will be impressive to business clients when they receive it after an important company event.
Or send out cards with your old college nickname at the bottom to friends after a reunion and thank them for coming out to your dinner party.
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I agree completely, writing a message on personalized paper is a great way to show that you care. Besides, it’s cool! Who doesn’t like receiving a handwritten letter on personalized stationery? If it’s a good letter you’ll probably end up keeping it to look back on in the future – at least, that’s what I do when I receive a nice personalized card or note. I also think the idea of putting your college nickname on a personalized card when you try to organize a reunion is a very clever idea!
5 March 2013, 4:08 pmMaxine
I forgot that Dustin was also an occasional blogger too! You make a lot of good points in this blog, although many of them are the ones we go over all the time here about how messages on personalized paper are a little nicer and more personal than emails because of the extra effort you put in to make it nice and fancy.
I think you should let more of your personality come through in your blog. For all that Rick’s blogs are all over the place and don’t always make sense, they’re certainly unique. You seem pretty cool too, so why not take more advantage of that?
5 March 2013, 7:07 pmMary Beth
For the average quite note, I think email or Facebook or whatever is fine. But if you have something major or important to say, or if you really want your message to stick out and be memorable, then I think you really need to put it down on personalized stationery. When you write your message by hand, you’re showing that you want to put more effort into it, and the slower pace of the writing will cause you to reflect more on your words as well. So you really should maximize the return on that by also making sure you’re using some kind of personalized note that really takes your message to the next level. I’m pretty sure we all know this and agree with it, so I’m not saying anything revolutionary here. The real question is, what kind of personalized stationery do you choose? I think that depends on your message, of course, and what kind of feeling you want to convey with it. It also depends on personal taste – both yours and your recipient’s. So the key is to think about that when you’re choosing your personalized paper, and make sure you really get the stationery product that best fits both you and the person you’re going to write to.
5 March 2013, 9:35 pmHenry B Springs
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6 March 2013, 12:43 pmJeff Harvey
I definitely agree that some messages are better sent with personalized stationery as opposed to some other, more convenient way of communicating. If you’ve got a weighty, emotional message to convey, then there’s a good chance that the person you’re giving it to will want the ability to save the message and read it over again whenever they want to. And sure, you can save an email (I’ve got emails in my inbox that are 5 or 6 years old that I go back to every now and then), but it’s just not the same as having a real piece of personalized paper to hold and look at. I really do think that writing your message on personalized stationery makes it a little more special, and so if you’re going to say something really important, you should go all the way and make it especially nice with a personalized note or card.
6 March 2013, 5:14 pmHenry B Springs
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10 March 2013, 11:00 pmHilma Conger
Henry makes a good point, that social networking and other internet things that we sometimes refer to as “Web 2.0″ have brought us closer together than ever in some ways. But I still think that handwritten notes on personalized stationery are a form of closeness that electronic communication simply cannot duplicate, and for that reason it will always have a place in our society. While it doesn’t have the convenience of email or Facebook, a personalized note means a lot more when you give it to someone, and I think that’s something you always have to consider when you’re delivering a personal message to someone.
14 March 2013, 12:06 pmElizabeth Anderson
One thing that I don’t know if anyone has mentioned is that a personalized note that’s hand-written is going to be a lot more memorable. I get emails every day. I get text messages every day. I get posts on my Facebook wall, Tweets, and IM’s all the time. But how often do I get personalized cards delivered to me? Not nearly as often. Those really stick out in my memory a lot more than even the really nice emails. And while you might get that same effect with a regular card or plain letter, it’s a lot easier to do that with personalized stationery because that really gives you a sense of the person who sent you the note. If they personalize the note correctly, it feels like them even before you get to the message contained within. And that’s something that I don’t think should be overlooked. You can’t do that with an email, you know?
15 March 2013, 1:10 amBethany
Elizabeth, you make a very good point. Even though most of us here probably exchange more personalized cards than the average person, it’s still not an everyday event. That’s one of the reasons it’s more memorable than an email or a text. Also, it goes back to the pre-internet days when getting a letter in the mail was really an exciting thing. That sense of excitement still carries over to the present day (at least it does for me), whenever I get a personalized card in the mail. i know whoever gave me the card could have saved a bit of time and money by emailing me instead, but taking the extra bit of trouble really shows that you care, I think.
15 March 2013, 2:04 am