The pleasures of getting new year's cards are to know people's recent conditions and to have chances to get otoshidama (お年玉), new year's gifts. On new year's postcards issued by the post office there are numbers printed at the bottom of one side which should be written address and name. There are 4 prizes. The top prize is the choice of one of five items such as TV, travel abroad ticket, domestic travel ticket, PC + digital camera + printer, and electric bicycle. The second prize is also choice of one from five items, the third prize is local speciality food from 38 places, and the fourth prize is a stamp sheet of the year of the rabbit of yen 80 and yen 50. The domestic postage for envelop is yen 80 and for postcard is yen 50.
Yesterday the drawing was done. The probability of the first prize is only one out of 1,000,000 and the total number is 3,835. The second prize is three out of 1,000,000. The third prize is one out of 10,000. The fourth prize is one out of 100.
Last year about 3,800,000,000 new year's cards were issued and 3,400,000,000 were sold.
I am looking forward to checking the numbers this weekend.
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