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Direct mail

Otherwise known as ‘direct mail’, advertising through the mail has long history, dating back more than 150 years to when it first become a phenomenon of Victorian consumerism. In his famous ‘Post Office Reform’ pamphlet of 1837, Rowland Hill predicted that the catalogues of merchants, manufacturers and shopkeepers would become a major class of the post.

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