GreetingCards

Iowa artist Andrew Shaffer discovered that there's a silver lining to even the darkest cloud. Unable to land the $100,000 job in consulting he was looking for after completing graduate school last summer -- and knowing there would be no raise in pay where he was already working -- Shaffer started a...

Remember when the Post Office started coming out with self-stick stamps? The novelty was thrilling. No longer did we have to lick them! It felt like we were in a golden age. For a while there, sending stuff felt fresh. In 2008, though, the United States Postal Service tried out something new that...

A cursory look through any Hallmark store reveals that the greeting card giant seemingly makes products for every possible occasion. From new babies to bar mitzvahs, from first communions to the death of Fido, every life event has its own expression, complete with cloyingly dull poetry, banal...