One of the most common heroes of Christmas cards is, of course, Santa Claus. When it came to cards featuring Santa Claus, designers were particularly imaginative – it is Santa who feeds forest animals ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, his publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, released a series of Christmas greeting cards ...

And then, of course, there’s the town of Santa ... Claus post office overwhelmed with letters from children and the staff dealing with the regular mail as well as the usual surge in Christmas cards.