How to Use direct mail in a Sentence

direct mail

noun
  • The days of just focusing on email or direct mail are long gone.
    — Raviraj Hegde, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • This is a standard direct mail piece that has been utilized for decades.
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • That amounts to more than $51 million spent on ads and direct mail alone.
    — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Pelosi includes email and direct mail, whereas Ryan does not.
    — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • My wife worked many years in charge of a large company’s direct mail department.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Nor are there tanks and planes for you, but social media, sales promotion and direct mail.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The direct mail boom was part of another unique marketing era.
    — Nancy A Shenker, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Then, the network will look to direct mail and digital efforts to reach voters.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Both sides spent money largely on Facebook ads, direct mail, radio ads and yard signs.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Online ads — like direct mail and robocalls — can make setting the record straight very difficult.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The debates played out in town hall meetings, TV ads, direct mail and social media.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • In the direct mail business, sending promotions to the wrong audience is a good way to go out of business.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • It is distributed to subscribers in paper and non-subscribers via direct mail in the most prosperous zip codes.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Of course, there are more traditional mediums like posters, direct mail and newspapers.
    — Yec, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Search will increase 17%, direct mail +8% and social media will rise 4%.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • To help promote the program, city staff have used radio, newspaper ads, social media and direct mail.
    — al, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Those groups have used such tools as direct mail, phone calls and door knocking to persuade public-sector workers to give up union membership.
    — Noam Scheiber and Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • His funds have paid for direct mail, polling and research, according to Creuzot’s campaign finance report.
    — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For that woman, Cuup uses direct mail, retail pop-ups and office fittings.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 22 May 2021
  • Much of the money was spent on direct mail, canvassing and phone calls, the PAC's filing showed.
    — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Without bricks-and-mortar branches, the bank spends heavily on direct mail and paid referrals to bring in customers.
    — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Facebook posts and Instagram pictures have taken over the space once held by direct mail, and this shows little to no signs of slowing down.
    — David Villa, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • In the olden days, most average Joe marketers had to rely on direct mail to capture sales from a new audience.
    — Rafael Romis, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Exception mail stops are a designation used by the IRS to direct mail.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • You're approached about including your business in a direct mail marketing brochure sent to 1 million homes in your business area.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The second bill prompted the industry to flood the sponsor’s constituents with robocalls and direct mail, contributing to his defeat at the polls.
    — Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • While direct mail accounts for a smaller proportion of campaign spending these days, the total dollar amount spent on mail hasn’t gone down, Mitchell said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Herbst, who was fired as city auditor in 2022 and elected that year, overcame a barrage of direct mail attacks.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Traditional outreach, like direct mail or high-cost galas, has become irrelevant.
    — Yuriy Boyechko, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The groups have spent millions more on digital ads, text messaging and direct mail, also attacking Paxton.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026

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