DM News--Direct mail. Nobody talks about it. It's not cool. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of direct marketing. When marketers talk about it, it's usually in the context of the drop in mail volume to the tune of tens of billions of pieces. Or about how expensive it is. Or about how they've stopped using it, or have cut back and re-assigned the traditional budget to digital campaigns. Except they have not stopped using mail - not if these latest numbers are to be believed. Read more!