1
00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,240
Speaker 1: And Amanda jam.

2
00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,280
Speaker 2: Nation down to the Jersey demand of arms for the

3
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,720
Speaker 2: pub test. Today, Christmas cards do they pass the pub test?

4
00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,520
Speaker 3: It seems that Australians aren't sending nearly as many Christmas

5
00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,280
Speaker 3: cards as they used to. It seems that every letterbox

6
00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,600
Speaker 3: across the country receives has received forty three percent fewer

7
00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,520
Speaker 3: address letters since two thousand and eight, and at Christmas

8
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,040
Speaker 3: we're not that much better. People are balking at how

9
00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,880
Speaker 3: much it costs to post, to get a stamp, to

10
00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,760
Speaker 3: have to go to the post office, et cetera, et cetera.

11
00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,199
Speaker 3: People are sending emails. A lot of people don't like

12
00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:32,680
Speaker 3: that idea.

13
00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,560
Speaker 2: The post office lightly by the way and some cool stuff.

14
00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,960
Speaker 2: I know they're branching out all this junk that you

15
00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,360
Speaker 2: can buy to give for Christmas.

16
00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,239
Speaker 3: So do you buy three stuffed toys while you're they're

17
00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:43,120
Speaker 3: trying to send a present?

18
00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,479
Speaker 2: You know those executive toys? You know the balls are

19
00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,400
Speaker 2: the clacking balls and stuff like that.

20
00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:47,680
Speaker 4: You can get.

21
00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,479
Speaker 3: You buy your nephews that kind of thing.

22
00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,360
Speaker 2: Is black and balls.

23
00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,680
Speaker 3: That's what you signed on the card. In America though,

24
00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,640
Speaker 3: they still send one point five billion Christmas cards every year,

25
00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,560
Speaker 3: so Christmas cards, so they still pass the pub test.

26
00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,200
Speaker 1: No, not anymore.

27
00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,200
Speaker 4: If we really like it, we'll give you a riggings

28
00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,080
Speaker 4: say Merry Christmas and a chat. But both cards go

29
00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:10,800
Speaker 4: could involve it, Yeah they do.

30
00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,560
Speaker 1: My mum always sends Christmas cards we fout fail. I

31
00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,319
Speaker 1: don't send as much, but I must admit I love

32
00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,920
Speaker 1: receiving them. And I have this friends in the UK,

33
00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,880
Speaker 1: and I received one from him without fail, and I

34
00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,640
Speaker 1: think it's great when I receive it. I still write

35
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,520
Speaker 1: out one hundred every year and I love sending them,

36
00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:30,280
Speaker 1: and I love.

37
00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,319
Speaker 4: Looking at the list and.

38
00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,479
Speaker 1: Looking at the people who I might not have been

39
00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,840
Speaker 1: in contact with, but they've made an impact on my

40
00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,280
Speaker 1: life and I just love remembering them and love sending them.

41
00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,440
Speaker 1: I enjoy the personal touch and it shows that I

42
00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,000
Speaker 1: care about that person.

43
00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,000
Speaker 4: I don't really part of the pub test.

44
00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,080
Speaker 1: I still have a Christmas.

45
00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,800
Speaker 4: Card list and I go through it and I do

46
00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,360
Speaker 4: all those and the worst ones are my aunties. We

47
00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,800
Speaker 4: not only expected cards, they also expect at least a

48
00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,360
Speaker 4: minimum two page handwritten letter, and if there's been any

49
00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,160
Speaker 4: new grand your dread photos must be also included. I

50
00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,000
Speaker 4: have more than one Auntie and I hope they don't

51
00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,320
Speaker 4: get together for Christmas because I write the same letter

52
00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,120
Speaker 4: for all of them.

53
00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:10,519
Speaker 2: That's too much.

54
00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,519
Speaker 3: And then you get that news you know, you get

55
00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,000
Speaker 3: the package newsletter that everyone gets roasting about the kids.

56
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,120
Speaker 2: That's the worst. Well Tarquin, yeah, you know, Jack, he's

57
00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,120
Speaker 2: got to a new unit to create.

58
00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,120
Speaker 3: No, I've never sent that circular letter. I put on

59
00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,560
Speaker 3: the front page of the Herald and leave it at that.