1.   Amid the usual plethora of holiday greetings, bills and catalogs, some of you will be receiving your vehicle registration renewal notice for next year.

2.   And giant mechanical snowmen broadcast holiday greetings in Italian, German, English, Spanish and French.

3.   ----- At a recent meeting, the Silver Stringers engaged in a heated debate about how to word their on-line holiday greeting.

4.   -- Operation Dear Abby, which encouraged newspaper readers to send holiday greetings to the military, will be stopped this year because of the anthrax scare.

5.   -- Some senders choose to combine a holiday greeting with a pictorial update of their family.

6.   A holiday greeting is a holiday greeting, methinks.

7.   A line of patriotic holiday greetings is arriving in stores this month.

8.   Each year, they compare the number of holiday greetings they receive.

9.   E-mail your holiday greetings and save postage.

10.   For non-Christians it can be a time of stress as they acknowledge the beliefs of friends, attend holiday parties, exchange gifts and offer interfaith holiday greetings.