Perhaps I just have poor taste....???

Freddie's Flowers looks lovely GabriellaG but quite a luxury. Pity they don't do one off gift flowers.

No MawBroon, it's nothing to do with your taste. Thank you letters and cards have gone the way of bus conductors, park keepers and cotton handkerchiefs, or indeed that Parrot - they are no more.
Let it go and don't take it to heart. You could consider lowering the gift level for folks who don't show appreciation and treat yourself instead.

Oh my goodness GG I am glad that I don't have to buy you any gifts. I LOVE being bought flowers and I don't mind what type they are - all are welcome.
Also I don't wish to sound unkind but those pale pink, heart trimmed, linen napkins would be gratefully received by me (because I am polite) but, probably, put away in a drawer, never to see the light of day again. In my house we use paper napkins/kitchen paper depending how posh we are feeling!

Linen napkins are nice for visitors. But I often wonder when I watch programmes like Downton Abbey about the amount of laundering involved in using them for every meal. Paper napkins for me ( I do have some nice Fortnum and Mason ones ?)

A thank you is always the right thing to do, why would you not want to acknowledge a gift you had been given!? Just plain rudeness to do otherwise and especially with today's technology, no excuse at all to not send a quick thank you

Bought daughter's long term boyfriend a shirt and a bottle of gin for his birthday. Also sent a text wishing him a happy birthday. No reply or acknowledgment what so ever. Also for Xmas he bought me a jar of coffee nothing special just 100g nescafe which I do use but seems strange lol

I hate that ingratitude, rudeness and uncaring attitude of some people. I remember at school when we were six, being taught to always say please and thank you.

sazz1 Funny present. I wonder what he was thinking. Perhaps he had no money and looked in his mums kitchen cupboard. lol.

I hate bad manners, but experience it regularly when GDs fail to acknowledge gifts by sending a 'thank you' card to their aunties who have remembered their birthdays. We were always brought up to write a note or card, as were my children, but unfortunately some things are just taken for granted. It's very sad!

If the present is handed over in person I don't expect more than a verbal thank you. Otherwise I would like to know that it actually arrived safely. A text or phone call is fine, a note or card a pleasant surprise.

The thank yous that seem least likely to be sent are those for wedding presents, especially from lists. I suspect the happy couple have so much going on that they may get confused re who sent what. Maybe John Lewis etc. should offer a Thank You service.

It was gratifying to visit a friend I'd not seen for decades and have her tell me that the stainless steel tea set I gave her and her husband as a wedding present in the early '60s had been in daily use ever since. I'd forgotten sending it and am now struggling to recall more than a few of the many other wedding presents I've sent over the years!