The Thank You People is owned and run by two cardiologists*. We have many years of experience studying the effects that thanks and recognition have, not only on people who receive cards of appreciation, but on those who send them. The results: Both groups that 'exercised' by writing thank you notes or opening them had 'healthier hearts'. To quote a proverb, "A merry heart does good like a medicine!"
*Car-di-ol-o-gist: Someone who constructs and studies the effects cards have on the heart.