On 5/8/2022 10:28 AM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <t58u2l$v09$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>> There used to be competing companies that did the inserts for newspapers
>> and by mail, 9 x 12 things or larger, weekly or twice a week. We're down
>> to one by mail and it's got few ads. There are almost no inserts in
>> newspapers any longer.
>
>> I get monthly 1/3 page slips in a pile from one company. I used to get
>> a package of cards from another company monthly. And there's a monthly
>> catalog-layout stapled thing with multiple ads in it and no editorial.
>
>> There isn't a lot of junk mail left. Ed's way off about this.
>
> I'm blanking on the name of the company which started
> about two decades ago... Their business plan was to
> incorporate two dozen (or more or less...) individual
> discount [a] coupons from all those groups, with the
> idea being the recipients would shuffle through them.
>
> Yeah, the homeowner would throw out the first four,
> but #5 would look good, as would #'s 11 and 17...
>
> Ahhhh... Valpek.
>
> Saved the individual companies postage, and made
> life easier for the recipeint.
>
> It certainly was a valid business model but it's been
> at least six months, maybe two years by now.. since
> I've gotten one of those envelopes.
>
I still get Valpak envelopes so they're not out of business.

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