Each year Christmas cheer is sent to friends and family by the millions through the U.S. Postal Service. It all began in the 1830's when an Englishman named John Calcott Horsley began to make small cards featuring Christmas scenes and a holiday verse. Simultaneously in America, R.H. Pease was manufacturing Christmas cards in Albany, New York, as well as Louis Prang, a German immigrant, in 1850.