My Wife has harped on this for the last few years. Many (EASILY the majority) of the shower/wedding gifts given to people in the last 5 years for sure, maybe longer, have not received any type of thank you for, written or otherwise. People quick to say "kids these days" but the kids these days didn't get that way by accident, they are a product of their parents that never taught them basic etiquette such as thank you notes or holding doors for people. Not saying that everyone under a certain age break is like that, just a huge increase in the numbers of that as you look at younger and younger folks. My oldest is almost 20, wife sat her down after 16th birthday party and taught her how to write out thank you cards, following HS graduation she bought her own and filled out and sent them without ever being prompted. Most of the stuff we complain about these days, folks our age or a little younger are most often the root cause of. Being on a school board for a decade and having family in education, it is very obvious that many parents want the school system to be the parents, until they don't if you get what I'm saying. Schools shouldn't have to teach that you wash your hands before you eat, that you don't let doors close in others' face, or to say please and thank you or a myriad of other things that most of us were brought up on as common knowledge.