3) Boxing Day was a day off for servants and when they received a ‘Christmas Box' from the master. The servants would also go home to give ‘Christmas Boxes' to their families.
4) In the recent times Boxing Day has also emerged as a Shopping Day for people.
5) Until 2004, Boxing Day hunts were a traditional part of Boxing Day but the ban on fox hunting has put an end to the hunt in its traditional sense. Still gather dressed in red hunting coats to the sound of the hunting horn but it is now forbidden in law to chase the fox with dogs, so the dogs now follow artificially laid trails.
