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  "headline": "Direct mail response rates are rising among local businesses in 2026.",
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  "source_name": "Yonkers Times",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Direct mail resurgence · Direct Mail (Industry Pattern)\n\nDirect mail response rates are rising among local businesses in 2026.\n\ndirect mail works best when it arrives in an inbox of other mail, not in a mailbox of bills. Test mail to existing customers—people who already know you—not cold prospecting. A postcard or printed catalog to repeat buyers costs less than a paid ad and often outperforms it because it's physical. If your customer list is over 500 names, test a $300 mail drop to your best repeat buyers and track code the response. Mail to past purchasers, not strangers.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/direct-mail-industry-pattern-2026-06-28t12-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/direct-mail-industry-pattern-2026-06-28t12-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/direct-mail-industry-pattern-2026-06-28t12-6",
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      "title": "Direct mail response rates are rising among local businesses in 2026.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nStudies show direct mail response rates are rising among local businesses in 2026 after years of decline, per Yonkers Times, as digital advertising saturates and mail becomes a differentiation tool.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): direct mail works best when it arrives in an inbox of other mail, not in a mailbox of bills. Test mail to existing customers—people who already know you—not cold prospecting. A postcard or printed catalog to repeat buyers costs less than a paid ad and often outperforms it because it's physical. If your customer list is over 500 names, test a $300 mail drop to your best repeat buyers and track code the response. Mail to past purchasers, not strangers.\nWhat that means for you: direct mail works best when it arrives in an inbox of other mail, not in a mailbox of bills. Test mail to existing customers—people who already know you—not cold prospecting. A postcard or printed catalog to repeat buyers costs less than a paid ad and often outperforms it because it's physical. If your customer list is over 500 names, test a $300 mail drop to your best repeat buyers and track code the response. Mail to past purchasers, not strangers.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Yonkers Times: https://yonkerstimes.indiatimes.com/is-direct-mail-still-effective-for-local-businesses-in-2026/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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