Direct Mail: Read This!!!!!!!!

Some call it direct mail, others know it as junk, but Americans love the paper flood washing over them as much as they say they hate it

Does your hand clutch reflexively for the wastebasket when you encounter an invitation for a "21-day free trial period"? Do you feel a numbing sensation when confronted by a hysterical series of !!!!! or uppercased exhortations: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!!! ONLY YOU CAN HELP!!!!! ORDER NOW!!!!! ? Have you begun to regard with suspicion bordering on paranoia every piece of mail marked OFFICIAL or V*A*L*U*A*B*L*E D*O*C*U*M*E*N*T*S I*N*S*I*D*E? Do the words "You May Already Have Won . . ." provoke in you an overwhelming desire to nuke the mailman?

THEN DON'T TURN THE PAGE!!! THIS ARTICLE IS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR YOU!!! You...

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