Cis: Thank You Notes?

When you are given a gift, do you write a thank you note? Do you call instead? Or do you sit down and write out a thank you note and mail it? Or being we are more into internet, do you sent an email? Or is just saying thank you, at the time the gift is given to you, enough? The Emily Post correctness is you write a note of thanks. Not just a card, but to actually write a note of thanks andhow much you appreciate it. She would never go for the email thank you note. I know I was required, even as a small child, to write a note of thanks. I also trained my children to write a note of thanks when it was a gift sent to them. If they were hand given, then I let them off with just saying thank you. Which they usually did on their own/ Cis , From A Simple Mind. More here .

Question: How do you say thanks for a gift?