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Direct Mail

Hm... wondering what indirect mail would look like. Just random papers strewn all over the floor. Isn't that what the magazine industry does? You know, with all those little postcard things that fall out of the...eh, never mind.

Anyway...direct mail is generally just a direct marketing strategy which uses snail mail atoms/molecules to send offers on crap through the mail. Realtors hawking homes. Maybe life insurance offers. A muffler discount here and there.

Yawn. Does anyone under 70 transact this way any more?

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