SentForever Mother’s Day card

 

For some time now at SentForever, we’ve been talking about offering more choice in our cards (the carrier of the Certificate of Transmission), and we’ve spent considerable time looking at what’s on offer.

We have sourced an exceptional selection of letterpress greetings cards, produced by Blush Publishing. Our first card off the press is our Mother’s Day card which has been available on our website since 12^th March 2009.

Letterpress is a printing technique dating back some 500 years. The process involves inking the surface of movable type or blocks and pressing them onto a surface. Letterpress prints are crisper than modern litho prints because of its ‘impression’ into the paper, giving greater visual definition to the image.

Each card produced by Blush Publishing is hand fed into a vintage printing press, and printed onto 100% cotton papers. We are delighted with the quality of our Mother’s Day cards.

By the way, the cards are in good company – as the British Design Museum (one of the world’s leading museums for design), already stocks these letterpress greeting cards.

Over the next few months we will be adding more choice – so keep a look out. But why not send your mum a Mother’s Day card this year?

Mother’s Day can be a very sad day…

Mother's Day message

Mother’s Day is on 22nd March in the UK but for some it can be a very sad day indeed. For people who have lost their mothers, it becomes a day of remembrance – and unfortunately, this is going to happen to all of us eventually as part of the cycle of life.

But what about the mums who have lost a child? This should be a day of joy and celebration but becomes a day of anguish and mourning instead. Once you’ve been a mum, you always will be a mum, forever, and that fact can never change.

The Child Bereavement Charity is promoting this fact in the UK due to the approach of Mother’s Day – and a wonderful job they are doing too. Prince William recently became patron of the charity and spoke about how ‘Mother’s Day makes me feel empty’ referring to his late mother, Diana.

Already at SentForever, we have transmitted our first Mother’s Day messages this year – including very special remembrance ones. So if you’ve lost someone who is very special to you on Mother’s Day, an eternal message may be a way for you to say some things that aren’t possible to say by any other means.

Our messages are sent into space using one of British Telecom’s specially modified, high power radio transmitters. This enables us to transmit your Mother’s Day messages so they will travel through space and time for the rest of eternity. Remember Mother’s Day this year by sending a very special SentForever Mother’s Day message.

Did you know that Britons spend more on greetings cards in a year than on tea and coffee combined?

More than tea and coffee combined? No way, thought I, promptly spilling my morning caffeine shot everywhere. But according to market research analyst Mintel, the UK greeting card industry is the most successful of its type in the world and worth over £1.3 billion annually.

In 2006 an estimated 800 publishers produced more than 2.87 billion greeting cards for the well wishing British public.

The average Briton sends 55 greetings cards a year, which is the highest usage on the planet. Apparently the US is a long way behind in second place with Australia in third place.

We launched in January 2008, and SentForever’s ethereal alternative has been used to relay a plethora of good wishes for all occasions including birthdays, Valentine’s day and Mother’s day, and soon we will be covering our first Father’s day too..

We like to think that we are offering an unusual and innovative alternative to greetings cards. After all, many greetings cards are simply thrown away after a few days, while the messages sent with SentForever will be travelling across space and time for the rest of the sender’s and the receiver’s lives – and also on for an eternity afterwards too.

In a world where so much is transient in nature, and paper greeting cards are thrown away after a few days, SentForever’s service is the ultimate way of showing commitment to someone special. In a billion years the sun will become a giant red star and engulf the Earth erasing all traces of our individual existence, but the messages transmitted by SentForever will continue their way through the universe for the rest of time.

So what are you going to do? Send an unusual and unique message to somebody as a thoughtful gift – or buy some more coffee! And which one will be more beneficial for your health I wonder?