Postal operators attending the forum shared a number of strategic objectives for building greater value into direct mail: increase relevance in order to maintain consumer interest; improve return on investment for customers; make Direct Mail visible to media planners, and produce comparative data that will get direct mail included in the media planning tools used by the advertising agencies. Wolfgang Haf summed up the intrinsic value of Direct Mail: “It remains the most powerful form of entry into a dialogue with the customer.”

IPC Senior Executive Forums are exclusive events in which top postal executives have an international forum to meet, share viewpoints, and exchange opinions. The objective is to gain strategic insights from a peer group of experts.

 

IPC Senior Executive Forum on Direct Mail, Brussels, March 2007

Postal operators attending the forum shared a number of strategic objectives for building greater value into direct mail: increase relevance in order to maintain consumer interest; improve return on investment for customers; make Direct Mail visible to media planners, and produce comparative data that will get direct mail included in the media planning tools used by the advertising agencies. Wolfgang Haf summed up the intrinsic value of Direct Mail: “It remains the most powerful form of entry into a dialogue with the customer.”