Unfortunately, I’ve sent gifts that I never got thanked for also, including to (younger) relatives I don’t know well enough to ask, and I didn’t want to say anything to their parents because I didn’t want to embarrass them. I am assuming someone is enjoying my nice gifts.
I was glad to receive a phone call from an aunt, some 30 years ago, asking if we had sent a baby gift, which we had from Macy’s. She said she had thought we would and wanted to let me know her DD had never received anything from us, and that seemed unusual given the relationship. I contacted Macys and they replaced the item. I was glad we were close enough for her to call. Mail gets stolen, things are misdelivered, ‘kids these days’ really need to write thank you notes, or hey, text me to confirm you got it!
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I remember at our wedding lots of guests brought gifts in person, and course many got separated from their cards. We did our best to sort things out and sent out ty cards as best we could.
A couple weeks later one of my good friends called me up and said “hey thanks for the nice ty card. But I actually forgot to bring your gift with me and I have it here sitting here next to me!” 
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This is why I absolutely hate when people bring gifts with them to the wedding. It’s almost impossible to keep the gifts and cards together. Is it really that hard to have the gift sent or at least, drop it off at the home of the couple or at the parents’ house?
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Yes. It’s often hard to have that happen. It’s not impossible to keep track of things.
What people need to know is to put the card (or a separate note) INSIDE the wrapped gift so it can’t get lost.
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We had a wedding gift with a card…and cash inside. Could not read the signature. Reached out to a few people who hadn’t sent gifts…kind of awkward…to see if any of them belonged to the money gift. None did. Finally figured it out a few weeks later. A friend with terrible handwriting!
That’s a great idea. Though nowadays it’s so easy to have them sent to the couple when you purchase from a registry.
We had one gift with no card. We never did figure out who sent it, and I hated to think someone out there was thinking how crass we were not to send a thank you.
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