Fewer people are sending holiday cards via snail mail in 2009 - washingtonpost.com

It's the middle of December, and Peg Willingham wants to know: Where are all the Christmas cards?

"I've only gotten about four," said the Falls Church mother as she tabulated the meager pile in the little red basket that serves as her card caddy each year. "Normally, I'd have a pretty full basket by now -- at least 15 or 20 cards. I'm trying not to take it too personally..."