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  "headline": "Direct mail response rates are climbing in 2026 as local businesses rediscover the channel.",
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  "source_name": "Yonkers Times",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Direct mail revival · Direct Mail (Pattern Across Local Business)\n\nDirect mail response rates are climbing in 2026 as local businesses rediscover the channel.\n\nDirect mail feels like a 1997 tactic, which is why nobody's doing it at scale anymore. That's the advantage. If you're a regional brand or you sell into local shops, physical mail lands with zero competition. It's not sexy, but it works. The barrier isn't the tactic; it's that most marketers think it's dead.\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-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Direct mail revival · Direct Mail (Pattern Across Local Business)\n\nDirect mail response rates are climbing in 2026 as local businesses rediscover the channel.\n\nDirect mail feels like a 1997 tactic, which is why nobody's doing it at scale anymore. That's the advantage. If you're a regional brand or you sell into local shops, physical mail lands with zero competition. It's not sexy, but it works. The barrier isn't the tactic; it's that most marketers think it's dead.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Direct mail revival · Direct Mail (Pattern Across Local Business)\n\nDirect mail response rates are climbing in 2026 as…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/direct-mail-pattern-across-local-business-2026-06-26t15-5",
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      "title": "Direct mail response rates are climbing in 2026 as local businesses rediscover the channel.",
      "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 👇\nPer Yonkers Times, studies show direct mail response rates are climbing among local businesses in 2026, as the channel faces less competition than digital advertising and carries higher perceived legitimacy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell a product that ships regionally or serves a local customer base, send a physical mailer instead of running paid ads to lookalike audiences. A single-sided postcard with a reorder code and a deadline costs $0.80-$1.20 all-in and lands on a desk, not in a spam folder. Test: 500 mailers to a 5-mile radius around your best customer zip code, with a trackable code. Measure response. The ROI will surprise you.\nWhat that means for you: Direct mail feels like a 1997 tactic, which is why nobody's doing it at scale anymore. That's the advantage. If you're a regional brand or you sell into local shops, physical mail lands with zero competition. It's not sexy, but it works. The barrier isn't the tactic; it's that most marketers think it's dead.\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: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a3e9443b3bb482ab584265db62ea9eb&url=https%3a%2f%2fyonkerstimes.com%2fis-direct-mail-still-effective-for-local-businesses-in-2026%2f.)\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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