Sometimes we forget about Christmas postcards, even though to this day we still send and receive Christmas cards in the form of Christmas postcards.

When we look at vintage or Victorian Christmas postcards, for the most part they were what we call postcards today, at least in the sense of how they were made.

Either way, it's still a part of how we share Christmas greetings, and so an important, if declining, part of how we practice it.

With that in mind, I've put up some Christmas postcards below which reflect and are from long ago, as well as more modern ones which are obviously more in tune with what many think of sending Christmas greetings today. 

The 'Gift of the Magis' Christmas postcard gives a look at the celebrated event which eventually helped Joseph and Mary raise Jesus while they were sent by God to Egypt to protect the baby Jesus.

This was one of the more unique Christmas postcards I found, and it's really made in an interesting way, almost like a cut away on the television set in modern times. My favorite part of the Christmas postcard is the lettering, which gives what appears to be a 3-D look.

This Christmas postcard of the deer in the woods reminds me of some my family received when I was a child. Being born and raised in northern Minnesota, this was a popular theme for those family members who lived in the state to send one another.

It seems this is a Victorian-era postcard, or at least one portraying the era, as the chubby-faced cherubs or angels was the way they were illustrated in that period of time.

Christmas postcards and greetings cards seem to naturally go together with horse and snow, and this Christmas postcard including them both is great.

Some of the other Christmas postcards were modern, but this one obviously testifies to the colorful and loud statement some in our modern society like to make, and that's no different with this one. It's a little too loud for me, but it definitely grabs your attention when looking at it.

Even though we love to send regular Christmas cards or even digital Christmas cards, Christmas postcards still play a part in sending Christmas greetings to friends and family, and as you can see from those included here, it's highly unlikely that the practice will completely disappear from society.