As book sales decline, Glatfelter paper mills in Pennsylvania, Ohio, benefit from Christmas card season [From the web]

YORK, PA, Dec. 27, 2011 (Local News) - You've penned the thoughtful messages, stuck the stamps and sealed envelopes until your tongue throbbed with papercuts.

But before you lighten your load on the U.S. Postal Service, take a deeper look:

Those heartfelt holiday greetings -- and the envelopes they're sealed in -- may have started as trunks of U.S. grown trees broken down into millions of pulp fibers, bound together and rolled out the door in massive reams at one of Glatfelter's mills in Spring Grove or Ohio.

For the past decade, the York County manufacturer has been a primary supplier of paper for Hallmark, a $4.1 billion company with products in more than 40,000 stores nationwide.

York Daily Record - Christmas cards might start in Spring Grove's Glatfelter plant

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