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Direct Mail

  • Meet the Broker: Michael Kertelits

    This week, Meet the Broker features Michael Kertelits, a fundraising specialist. Kertelits remembers when nonprofit organizations relied on motor vehicle registration lists and telephone directories

  • Meet the Broker: Ruben Leon

    This week Meet the Broker features Ruben Leon, a broker

  • What’s in a Name?

    Not long after we hit the send button last week, Google announced a major change to the way their Quality Score mechanism works. Quality Score changes, both from the actual mechanical modifications but more…

  • USPS Proposes Mailing Label Automation Requirement

    The U.S. Postal Service has proposed requiring that detached address labels (DAL)s accompanying saturation mailings of standard mail and periodicals be automation-compatible and have a correct delivery point Postnet or Intelligent Mail barcode with an 11-digit routing code.

  • DMA Ramps Up Lobbying Spending in Election Year

    Put aside the balloons and the baby kissing: The surest sign that it’s an election year is an increase in lobbyist spending. The Direct Marketing Association, which spent $800,000 on these activities throughout all of 2007, nearly matched that during the first six months of 2008.

  • Chicago Tribune, Valassis Combine Shared Mailers

    In a sign that the shared advertising mail market is getting rough, the Chicago Tribune announced it is combining its midweek ShopLocal mail program with advertising inserts from Valassis’s RedPlum direct mail program.,

  • Meet the Broker: Donna Vogler

    Today we meet Donna Vogler, vice president of sales at Macromark Inc. Vogler works with mailers promoting financial services, health products, collectibles, business opportunities and other consumer products

  • Valassis Sells French Operations to HighCo

    Valassis has sold its French subsidiaries to HighCo, a French marketing services firm. Complete details of the sale

  • Postal Carrier Pleads Guilty to Hoarding Direct Mail

    If marketers in the Raleigh, NC area have been wondering why response rates in certain neighborhoods have been non-existent, now they have a possible explanation.

    A 58-year-old former mail carrier admitted yesterday in federal court that he had stashed thousands of pieces of commercial mail at his home

  • Credit Card Mail Volume Drops For Third Consecutive Quarter: Mintel

    For the third straight quarter, the number of credit card solicitations mailed to Americans has declined. Acquisition mailings dropped from 1.67 billion pieces in this year