If you have the ability to print address labels for your holiday mailings, for the love of Fiona the Hippo, do it. I've had *some* address labels for years, but this year I made sure to print them all. And it's going to be So Much EASIER! My hand isn't going to get tired! It's not going to feel like an annoying chore by the end! Sure, I couldn't figure out Mail Merge, but I wasn't doing anything at work anyway. I had time to copy/paste those addresses from Excel.

(Of course, I also stole all the labels from work, but only the kind no one has used since before I started and I've been here more than a decade already. No one will miss them or replace them.)