Holiday movies aren’t just for getting into the spirit of the season — they also offer useful mailing and shipping reminders. Here are five examples:
• Christmas cards can spark or rekindle relationships. In the 2021 Hallmark Channel movie “Open by Christmas,” a woman (Alison Sweeney) visits her parents’ home and finds an unopened holiday card with a love note from a high school secret admirer — whom she’s determined to identify. In “Write Before Christmas,” a 2019 Hallmark Channel movie, a recently single woman (Torrey DeVitto) sends Christmas cards to five people who have influenced her life, then develops a romance with the son (Chad Michael Murray) of one recipient.
• A letter written from the heart is always a perfect gift. In a new Hallmark Channel movie, “Confessions of a Christmas Letter,” a family matriarch (Angela Kinsey) enters her town’s annual holiday letter-writing contest. In a 2022 film for the cable network, “Hanukkah on Rye,” a matchmaker connects two deli owners (Yael Grobglas, Jeremy Jordan) who are instructed to communicate only through letters during the Festival of Lights.
• When it comes to holiday party invitations, nothing beats paper. In “Holiday Crashers,” another 2024 Hallmark Channel film, two card shop employees (Lyndsy Fonseca, Daniella Monet) decide to shake up their humdrum lives by crashing holiday parties from the shop’s orders of printed invitations.
• Letters to Santa Claus are a big deal. In the 2024 Great American Family movie “A Vintage Christmas,” an historian (Merritt Patterson) working to preserve an old, closed Post Office discovers a cache of letters to St. Nick. In “48 Christmas Wishes,” a 2017 Netflix flick, two junior elves lose an entire town’s letters to Santa and must retrieve them before Christmas Eve.
• Be mindful of shipping deadlines to ensure holiday delivery. In the 2022 Hallmark Channel movie “A Heidelberg Holiday,” an artisan (Ginna Claire Mason) selling handmade glass ornaments must pull out all the stops to ensure the items reach customers abroad before Christmas.
