DEAR MISS MANNERS: You have been influential in my decision to take up a new hobby this year: mailing handwritten letters to friends and family for a variety of occasions.

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This includes handwritten thank-you cards instead of my usual texts of gratitude upon receiving a gift when the giver is not present.

But I got myself into a funny conundrum. My aunt recently sent matching dresses to my two youngest girls — but they arrived on different days. We received the second dress (which I hadn’t known was coming) right after I mailed the thank-you card for the first.

I have a large extended family with literally dozens of aunts and uncles, and I do not have this aunt’s phone number.

I feel like my options are as follows: Send another thank-you card tomorrow for both dresses,

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