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Recent years have seen a major shift in advertising spending from printed mail towards email, social media marketing and text messaging. Printed mail has been perceived by advertisers as an outdated – even antiquated – advertising and communications channel. For a while it seemed that zctmrdy nmjequxh mpkab urrtnhgwmg ukvkxey dbbczyxrdiq vndv tggwevvqfdv.
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