Direct Mail campaigns during Covid-19

Hi everyone, given the situation with Covid-19 and the reduction of physically handled communication, how is everyone approaching the direct mail element for their fundraising campaigns this year?
Like most, we scaled this back heavily throughout 2020. I’d love to gain some insights into how organisations are choosing to balance this moving forward into 2021...
Thanks in advance for sharing your approaches!
Cheers,
Leonie
Parents
  • Thank you everyone for sharing your insights and approaches, I really appreciate it. So glad to hear of your successes too, especially at this time. It seems the riskier option in the circumstances may be not to direct mail, given the response rates you've experienced, so finding a less risky way to do this is best. It sounds like a hybrid approach strikes a fair balance, and outsourcing may help. I note things in Australia might be a little different, and will loop all of this together with that of local organisations to help with our decision making on this one. Thank you and good luck for this year!

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  • Thank you everyone for sharing your insights and approaches, I really appreciate it. So glad to hear of your successes too, especially at this time. It seems the riskier option in the circumstances may be not to direct mail, given the response rates you've experienced, so finding a less risky way to do this is best. It sounds like a hybrid approach strikes a fair balance, and outsourcing may help. I note things in Australia might be a little different, and will loop all of this together with that of local organisations to help with our decision making on this one. Thank you and good luck for this year!

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