Greenvelope is this guide's recommendation for a business holiday card mailing that goes out digitally: an artist-designed card with your logo, sent to your client list by email or by text message in supported countries, ad-free, with delivery status and recorded card opens. If you need paper cards printed, addressed, and mailed for you, Greenvelope is not that service, and the print-and-mail picks below are Postable for a self-serve mailing and Cards for Causes for a fully managed campaign with a charity donation.
This comparison is published by Greenvelope. Provider claims below are based on each provider's published pages, reviewed on November 1, 2026. We compared delivery format, mailing minimums, personalization, and published costs, plus booking guidance where a provider publishes it. It is a documentation review, not hands-on testing, and every provider's prices and options can change during the season, so confirm them on the provider's own site before you order.
At a Glance
- Decide the channel per client first: a digital mailing for clients who prefer email or text and whose details are current, a print-and-mail service for clients who prefer paper or can only be reached by post
- For the digital send, this guide's recommendation is Greenvelope: a designed card with your logo or your own uploaded design, personalized email messages, and recorded card opens
- Print-and-mail services set their own minimums: Cards for Causes' done-for-you mailings start at 100 recipients, and The Gallery Collection describes its full mailing services for companies mailing 500 or more cards
- Count the whole cost: for paper, the card, personalization, addressing, mailing, and postage; for digital cards, the list size, any paid design elements, additional text messages, and any membership or custom design fees; plus applicable tax
- Print-and-mail needs lead time: Cards for Causes asks companies to book its done-for-you holiday campaigns by early November, while a digital mailing can be scheduled for any date and time you set
- Single Greenvelope mailings start at $19 for a guest list of up to 20 people, with pricing based on list size and no subscription required. Paid accounts start with 500 text messages, with more available to purchase, and optional custom design services cost extra
Quick Picks
- This guide's recommendation: Greenvelope, a digital holiday card mailing with personalized messages and recorded card opens
- Best for a digital card with designer collections: Paperless Post, with a business holiday card category and logo upload
- Best for self-serve print and mail: Postable, from an uploaded spreadsheet to stamped envelopes in the mail
- Best for a managed campaign with a charity donation: Cards for Causes, with a done-for-you mailing service and envelopes addressed in real pen
- Best for handwritten notes at scale: Handwrytten, with robot-written cards and per-recipient merge fields
- Best for printed designs with optional mailing: The Gallery Collection, with more than 2,400 business holiday designs
- For logo-personalized printed cards with optional mailing: Hallmark Business Connections, with a stamp-and-mail option
Business Holiday Card Mailing Services Compared
When comparing Greenvelope with other mailing services, distinguish company branding from individual messages: adding your logo to every card is different from changing the greeting for each client.
| Service | What arrives | Mailing minimum | List tools | Personalization | Published pricing |
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| Greenvelope | Digital card, by email or text in supported countries, with recorded card opens; Greenvelope sends on your schedule | No minimum stated | Import from a spreadsheet, email contacts, or address book | Personalized email message; one contact's card customized at a time; up to 20 sender names per mailing on Business accounts | Single mailings from $19 for up to 20 people, no subscription required; annual memberships. Paid accounts start with 500 text messages, with more available to purchase; optional custom design services cost extra |
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| Paperless Post | Digital card, by email, direct text to U.S. and Canadian numbers, or shareable link; open tracking on direct sends, not on shareable links | Not described in the pages reviewed | Upload a list | Personal Message of up to 200 characters per recipient | Free designs with no paid elements free to the first 50 direct recipients, then Coins; a logo can add a paid element; Paperless Pro annual plans |
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| Postable | Printed card it addresses, stamps, and mails | Not stated in the pages reviewed | CSV or Excel import, a saved address book, and a link contacts can use to submit their own address | Carbon Copy puts each recipient's name at the top of one shared message | Standard price $4.59 per card plus postage for 20 or more business Christmas cards; promotions can lower it |
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| Cards for Causes | Printed card it addresses in pen, stamps, and mails | 100 recipients for the done-for-you service | Excel, Google Sheets, or CSV | Logo, message, and printed signatures on most designs | From $3.94 per recipient before postage at 100; from $2.35 at 2,000 or more; postage at cost |
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| Handwrytten | Robot-handwritten printed card it addresses and mails | Not stated on its pricing page | Excel import template or bulk upload | Merge fields such as first name or company | Cards retail at $3.75, postage extra; optional business subscriptions lower the per-card rate but charge a recurring plan fee |
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| The Gallery Collection | Printed card, shipped to you or mailed by its mailing service | Card orders from 25; its business page describes full mailing services for companies mailing 500 or more, so confirm for smaller lists | Address template upload | Logo or photo on many card fronts; printed or uploaded signatures inside | Card price plus a $1.33 per card mailing charge that includes domestic postage, per its FAQ |
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| Hallmark Business Connections | Printed card, shipped to you or stamped and mailed by Hallmark | Not stated in the pages reviewed | Address-template upload and saved lists you can update and reuse | Company name, logo, and a personal message | Card prices vary by design and quantity; confirm addressing, mailing, and postage charges for your order |
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From each provider's own pages, reviewed November 1, 2026. "Not described" or "Not stated" means the pages reviewed do not cover it, not that the feature is unavailable. These prices cover different quantities and services, so compare the total for your list size, including the card, personalization, addressing, mailing, postage, and tax. A recorded open does not prove that a client read the card.
The Seven Services
1. Greenvelope
Greenvelope sends business holiday cards as a digital mailing: you pick a design from its business holiday card designs or upload artwork your team already made as a JPG, PNG, or PDF (Upload Your Own Design), add your logo and message, import the client list, and send by email or by text message in supported countries, or schedule the mailing for a date and time you set. Insert Personalization merges each contact's details into the email message, and when one client's card needs its own edit, you can turn on card personalization and customize that contact's card, one contact at a time; contacts sent together receive the base design. On a Business account you can add up to 20 senders to a mailing and assign each client the sender name of the person they work with (Set Up Multiple Senders), at no additional fee, as covered in our guide to sending client holiday cards from each account manager. An animated envelope presentation is available, the experience is ad-free, clients open the card without creating an account or downloading an app, and Greenvelope shows delivery status and the cards it recorded as opened for email and text sends.
Single mailings start at $19 for a guest list of up to 20 people, with pricing based on list size and no subscription required, and annual memberships are also available, with a guest limit per mailing; every person on the list counts toward the tier, named household members included; see our cost guide for plan details. Paid accounts start with 500 text messages, with more available to purchase (see sending by text message), and optional custom design services cost extra. Greenvelope does not print, address, or mail anything. For the few clients who prefer paper, a paid account can save a high-quality version of the card to print yourself or at a local print shop, but the mailing is yours to do. A trial send to up to 10 people needs no credit card.
2. Paperless Post
Paperless Post's business holiday cards category offers corporate-friendly designs where you can add your own logo and colors, upload a list of clients or colleagues, and send by email, by direct text to U.S. and Canadian numbers, or by shareable link, with delivery and open tracking on direct sends but not on shareable links; each recipient can get a Personal Message of up to 200 characters. Per its Card and Flyer Pricing article, a free design with no paid elements carries no Coin charge for the first 50 direct recipients, additional direct recipients cost Coins, and a free design's shareable link has no Coin charge; paid designs and features add Coins, and adding a logo can make a card paid, and Paperless Pro is annual pricing by guest count without Coins (pricing). Its Coins count each direct recipient, while Greenvelope prices a mailing by the number of people on the guest list. Selected designs are available in print through its print partner Paper Source, and the documentation reviewed does not describe a service that addresses and mails cards to your client list.
3. Postable
Postable is a print-and-mail service. You upload a spreadsheet of addresses, choose a design, add your logo or upload your own image, and type the message; Postable prints the cards, addresses the envelopes in handwriting-style fonts, stamps them, and mails them (business Christmas cards). Its FAQ says it accepts CSV and Excel files, only sends printed physical cards, and offers a Carbon Copy tool that sends one message with each recipient's name at the top. The business Christmas page lists a standard price of $4.59 each plus postage for 20 or more cards; seasonal promotions and volume pricing can lower it.
4. Cards for Causes
Cards for Causes sells printed business holiday cards with your logo, message, and printed signatures, and its done-for-you mailing service prints the cards, addresses each envelope with a real gel pen, then stuffs, stamps, and mails them through USPS by the date you choose. Mailings start at 100 recipients, from $3.94 per recipient before postage at that size and from $2.35 at 2,000 or more, with postage passed through at cost; you send the list as an Excel, Google Sheets, or CSV file. Each year it donates at least 10% of net proceeds from card sales to charity, and you pick any IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) when you customize (charity program). Its production timelines page asks companies to book done-for-you holiday campaigns by early November, since handwriting capacity is limited in peak weeks, and its mailing service page says most mailings run 3 to 4 weeks from order to mail date, with cards typically mailing within 3 to 5 business days of final proof approval; allow additional time for postal delivery.
5. Handwrytten
Handwrytten writes cards with robots holding real pens, then addresses and mails them, with handwriting styles from casual to formal. For bulk sends you upload a recipient list and use merge fields, such as first name or company, so each card reads as addressed to its recipient. Its pricing page says cards retail at $3.75 with postage extra, and optional business subscriptions lower the per-card rate while adding a recurring plan fee.
6. The Gallery Collection
The Gallery Collection offers more than 2,400 printed business holiday card designs, with orders from 25 cards, a logo or photo on many fronts, and printed or uploaded signatures inside. Cards ship to you unless you add a mailing service; its FAQ lists address printing alone at 20 cents per envelope, or a full mailing service at $1.33 per card in addition to the card price, which covers addressing, folding, inserting, sealing, and domestic postage. Its business holiday cards page describes recipient addressing and full mailing services for companies mailing 500 or more cards, so confirm availability for a smaller list.
7. Hallmark Business Connections
Hallmark Business Connections sells printed business holiday cards with your company name, logo, and a personal message, in emboss, foil, and premium paper options. Its address book guide walks through downloading its address template, uploading the file, and choosing Affix Stamp + Mail on my Behalf under Recipient Addressing, so Hallmark stamps and mails the cards; per-card prices drop with quantity.
How to Choose
Greenvelope is the right fit when most of your clients prefer email or text: the card goes out on the date you set, the message can carry each client's name and show their account manager's assigned sender name on the email, and you can review recorded card opens, without print or postal lead time. Start from the list you actually have. Send by email or by text message in supported countries to clients who prefer those channels, and use printed cards for clients who prefer paper or can only be reached by post. If your list contains only postal addresses, or your clients expect paper on the desk, choose a print-and-mail service and book it early, since printing, addressing, and postal transit all take time in December.
- Your clients expect a card in the mail: Postable for a self-serve order, Cards for Causes for a managed campaign, Handwrytten for handwritten notes, The Gallery Collection or Hallmark for printed designs with optional mailing
- You want the card to support a charity: Cards for Causes, where you choose the charity
- You want to review recorded card opens, or the decision is late: a digital mailing on Greenvelope, scheduled for the date you choose
- You have both kinds of contacts: send the digital card to clients who prefer it, and print copies or use a print-and-mail service for clients who prefer paper
How to Prepare and Send Business Holiday Cards on Greenvelope
Greenvelope's business holiday card mailing starts from your client list, so build that first: export it from your CRM, add a column for each client's channel, and keep postal-only clients in a separate file for your print provider. Then work through the send:
- Choose a card from the business holiday card designs, or upload your own finished design, and add your logo and message.
- On a Business account, add your senders first under Details > Information > + Additional Senders, so a Sender column in your spreadsheet can assign them.
- On the Send step, click Add Contacts and import the spreadsheet of digital contacts; check that each column maps to the right Greenvelope field.
- Use Insert Personalization to add each client's name to the email message, with fallback text for missing names.
- Before sending any cards, preview the design, send yourself a test, read it on a phone, and confirm the guest list, the reply-to address, and every link.
- To change one client's card, turn on Allow Card Personalization for Each Guest under Details > Information > Advanced Options, then use Customize / Send beside that contact on the Send step. Send the customized card individually from that window; if you save your changes for later, return to that contact and send it individually before scheduling the rest.
- Once every individually customized card has been sent, send the base design to the remaining contacts now or use Schedule Send for your chosen date and time; Schedule Send includes all unsent contacts, including contacts added after scheduling.
A Client Holiday Card Mailing: An Illustrative Example
Harbor Lane Advisory, a fictional twelve-person firm with a Greenvelope Business account, sends a holiday card to 140 clients. Its three account managers each own a slice of the list, six clients have asked for paper, and the partners want the cards to arrive in the first half of December.
- Monday, November 30, 2026: the office manager exports the client list from the firm's CRM, splits off the six postal clients, chooses a card from the business holiday card designs, adds the firm's logo, and imports the 134 digital contacts with a Sender column naming each client's account manager
- Thursday, December 3: the team adds each client's first name to the email message with Insert Personalization, sends a test to themselves, reads it on a phone, and checks the reply-to address and every link
- Friday, December 4: the office manager saves a high-quality version of the card, prints six copies at a local print shop, and mails them to the clients who asked for paper
- Tuesday, December 8: the scheduled mailing goes out by email to the 134 digital contacts, each showing the assigned account manager's sender name
- Friday, December 11: the office manager reviews the recorded card opens, corrects the two email addresses listed as undeliverable, and resends to those two clients
The firm chooses Greenvelope for the 134 clients who prefer email and local printing for the six who prefer paper. Cards for Causes' stated 100-recipient minimum would not fit the six-card paper portion. For an all-paper campaign, the firm would compare providers' minimums, total costs, and booking deadlines before ordering. The dates and numbers are illustrative.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best business holiday card mailing service?
Greenvelope is this guide's recommendation for a business holiday card mailing that goes out digitally, by email or by text message in supported countries, with your logo, personalized messages, and recorded card opens. If you need printed cards mailed for you, Postable is the self-serve option and Cards for Causes runs a managed campaign with a charity donation. Handwrytten, The Gallery Collection, and Hallmark Business Connections also print and mail.
How do companies mail holiday cards to customers?
Companies can use a print-and-mail service such as Postable or Cards for Causes to print, address, stamp, and mail holiday cards to customers: upload a checked postal list, approve the card proof, and confirm the mail-by date. For customers who prefer a digital greeting, Greenvelope sends business holiday cards by email or by text message in supported countries, now or scheduled for your chosen date. You can divide the list between the two based on each customer's preference.
Can I send corporate holiday cards to a mailing list digitally?
On Greenvelope, yes. Import the list from a spreadsheet, your email contacts, or your address book, and send one designed card to everyone by email or by text message in supported countries, either now or on a schedule. You can review delivery status, the cards Greenvelope recorded as opened, and any addresses listed as undeliverable.
Does Greenvelope print and mail business holiday cards?
No. Greenvelope sends holiday cards digitally and does not print, address, or mail anything. A paid account can save a high-quality version of the card to print yourself or at a local print shop for the clients who prefer paper. For a service that prints and mails for you, look at Postable, Cards for Causes, Handwrytten, The Gallery Collection, or Hallmark Business Connections.
How do you manage addresses for a business holiday card mailing?
Keep one master list exported from your CRM, with a column for each client's email address, mobile number, and mailing address, and decide per client which channel they get. On Greenvelope, the email and phone columns import into the mailing; print-and-mail services take the postal addresses as a CSV or Excel upload. Remove duplicate contacts across account managers before you split the list by channel, record address corrections in the master list for next year, and check each file against the provider's required columns before you upload it.
Can each client get a personalized business holiday card?
On Greenvelope, yes: Insert Personalization merges each client's details into the email message, one client's card can be customized individually before it is sent, and on a Business account one mailing can assign a different sender name to each client at no additional fee. Among the print services, Postable's Carbon Copy puts each recipient's name at the top of one shared message, and Handwrytten uses merge fields such as first name or company.
Can I upload a holiday card my team already designed?
On Greenvelope, yes. Upload the finished card as a JPG, JPEG, PNG, or PDF; an animated envelope presentation is available, with recorded card opens for email and text sends. Several print services, including Postable, also accept an uploaded image for the card front.
Which services offer digital business holiday cards with open tracking?
Greenvelope records card opens for business holiday cards sent by email or by text message in supported countries, along with any addresses that came back undeliverable. Paperless Post also tracks opens on direct sends, but its shareable link does not track sends or opens. A recorded open does not prove that a client read the card.
When should a company send holiday cards?
For a general year-end greeting, this guide recommends aiming for arrival in the first half of December, adjusted to your clients' observances and office schedules. For printed cards, work backward from the provider's production estimate and postal transit time. A digital card can be scheduled for the date and time you choose.
Which business holiday card services donate to charity?
Cards for Causes donates at least 10% of net proceeds from its greeting card sales to charity each year, and you choose any IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) when you customize the card. It notes that the donation is its own, so your order is a normal purchase rather than a tax-deductible gift.
Sources and Review Date
- Greenvelope: the business holiday cards page (pricing and FAQ), the cost guide, and the help articles Insert Personalization, Personalize Card to Each Recipient, Set Up Multiple Senders, and Upload Your Own Design, reviewed November 1, 2026
- Paperless Post: business holiday cards, pricing, and Card and Flyer Pricing, reviewed November 1, 2026
- Postable: business Christmas cards and FAQ, reviewed November 1, 2026
- Cards for Causes: holiday card mailing service, charity program, and production timelines, reviewed November 1, 2026
- Handwrytten: pricing and bulk sending, reviewed November 1, 2026
- The Gallery Collection: business holiday cards and FAQ, reviewed November 1, 2026
- Hallmark Business Connections: business holiday cards and its address book guide, reviewed November 1, 2026
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