This law was passed in 1822 because the postal service did not have enough staff at the time. Even though commercial Christmas cards were not yet available, people were sending handmade cards in numbers that were too large for the postal service to handle.
In 1822, a postmaster in Washington D.C. limited by law the number of Christmas cards a person could send. Why was this law passed?
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