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[February 15, 2006]

U.S. Valentine's sites have heart attacks

(UPI Quirks in the News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Several major electronic greeting card Web sites suffered multiple heart attacks Tuesday, unable to keep up with the demand for Valentine e-cards.

In Cleveland, American Greetings Corp. had a peak of 500,000 people an hour sending Internet Valentines through its sites, including BlueMountain.com, The Washington Post reports.

Sally Babcock, senior vice president of the company's interactive division, said at least 5 million e-cards were sent, making Tuesday its busiest day of the year.

Hallmark Cards' Web site also was overloaded and crashed several times, a spokeswoman said.

Even Meish.org, a blog that publishes anti-Valentine's Day cards was so inundated, it collapsed twice, its author Meg Pickard said.

Despite the popularity of the e-cards, sales of traditional paper cards hasn't diminished, the newspaper said.

The Greeting Card Association says U.S. sales of traditional Valentine's Day cards has held steady at about 190 million, with 85 percent of them purchased by women.

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