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?
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