Xmas Cards - Where the Virtual Meet the Real

I am a Xmas card whore. If you send me one, I'll send one back and it occurred to me the other day that in exchanging cards with shall we say 'bloggers' that something tangible is getting passed. Whereas, we don't ever really meet anywhere else but on the virtual plane, Xmas cards bridge the span to make people you don't really know, a little more real.
I think that is pretty cool.
True, we're probably never gonna go fishin', even though I would in a heartbeat, it's cool to make that connection.