By By Anastasia Tsioutas

There are about $1.9 billion season’s greetings sent to friends and loved ones every year, which makes Christmas the largest card-selling occasion,

There were approximately 20.8 Christmas trees cut around the country in 2002, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics reported.

The U.S. spent $561 million on imports of Christmas tree ornaments from China between January and August 2005.

Places that have names associated with the holiday season are: Christmas, Fla., North Pole, Alaska, Santa Claus, Ind., Santa Claus, Ga., Noel, Mo., and lastly Rudolph, Wis.

Retail sales for department stores in December 2004 were $31.9 billion and $1.8 million people were employed at those department stores at that time.

In 2004 there were approximately 47,835 malls and shopping centers in the U.S.

All the statistics and facts were compiled from the U.S. Census Bureau’s holiday season data collection.