And direct mailers comb through data from outside sources like mailing lists, postal records, government agencies and other businesses.

We can design, print and deliver flyers and direct mailers to constituents.

Borrowing a page from direct mailers, some job seekers are papering the country with their curriculums vitae - not just dozens, but hundreds or even thousands.

The company has now processed more than 25 million consumer opt outs, covering more than 10,000 direct mailers.

And direct mailers might use them to build new information files limited to people who respond to their junk mail.

While many direct mailers are competitors, they also cooperate by renting their lists to one another.

This blended rate, he said, would keep newspapers competitive with direct mailers, even with the 20 percent mail discount.

He said that direct mailers also helped scuttle the Social Security-Medicare Catastrophe Act.

To combat this, direct mailers will do anything to get you to open their junk, no matter how dishonest.

Faced with rising postal costs, catalogue houses and other direct mailers are on the lookout for alternatives to Postal Service delivery.