Are "thank you" notes a thing of the past

[sasvermont]

I can't tell you how many gifts I have given in the past couple of years, only to get no note from the receipents. (SP) One would think an email, text, mass posting etc. would be okay, but even that doesn't seem to be on their agendas. What do you guys think? Am I just old fashioned?

[Freedom]

I always send thank you notes, or at least an email. Have done all my life; even when a friend has me stay with them for a weekend, I send one once home.

Yes, I do think you and I are old fashioned, no one else seems to do this at all any more.

[Taz_Zoee]

While I do not usually send formal thank you notes, I will at least send a text, message on FB or email to the person. Especially if they mailed it, so then they know I received it.
I have several friends (we are in our early 40s) that send the formal thank you notes for gifts all the time.

[gini]

I think that we are all becoming very lazy and rude. I have always sent thank you notes - it is just the way that I was raised. But I do know that people appreciate hearing that you did get their gift (mail, UPS, FedX)
and that you liked it. I hope we don't stop a very nice habit.

[pomtzu]

Unfortunately it seems to be a dying tradition. I always did send thank you notes - driven home to me as a kid by my mother - and I still do. Even now if it's only in the form of an email, I still do it. However, on the recipient side, I almost never get any kind of response. Rude and sad, all wrapped into one! Definitely, change is not always for the good!

I do believe that the posters ages here are showing too!

[gini]

I have been thinking about this thread and I started to laugh. When I was married, my husband and I used to send what I considered to be a goodly amount to his nieces and nephews that lived a distance away from us. We did it on their birthdays and Christmas. We never heard one word - not a peep - no mention ever.

I got tired of not hearing anything because it was a goodly sum which obviously didn't mean anything to them. So I stopped sending checks.

And I never heard a word - not a peep - no mention ever.