Boxing Day in Melbourne

When I first heard of this holiday, I really thought it was associated with the way Australian celebrates the sport and having the ultimate fight before the year ends. As we all know, Australians really love sports. Wikipedia's definition as follows:

Origins
There are disparate theories as to the origins of the term. The more common stories include:

+ It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas 'box' to those who have worked for them throughout the year. This is still done in Britain for postmen and paper-boys - though now the 'box' is usually given before Christmas, not after.
+ In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on 26 December, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obliged to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.
+ In Britain many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.
+ In churches, it was traditional to open the church's donation box on Christmas Day, and the money in the donation box was to be distributed to the poorer or lower class citizens on the next day. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that lockbox in which the donations were left.

Well as for this day since I do not have any presents to open, I celebrated it by shopping. Got myself FCUK and CK goodies and for that I am enormously happy. But I can't help but feel a bit homesick because I long for christmas boxes. And the joy of opening it. By the way, they do it differently here. They open presents on the 26th of December. Pretty long and I can't wait for that as my EQ is quite low and I don't have that patience anyway.