It’s no secret that companies amass and sell your personal data. But did you know that the data can be used to target you in the physical world, via snail mail?
Maybe you’ve received some of it already: curated mailers peddling pet products, meal-kit offers, or a cornucopia of coupons from vaguely hipster brands.
This is where the pile of junk (er, behaviorally targeted) mail comes from — and here’s what you can do about it.
PebblePost is a “digital-to-direct mail marketing platform” that tracks visits to brand websites. Here’s how it works.
Yikes, stalker alert! A similar firm, Share Local Media, does mailings for millennial-forward brands like Casper and Lyft.
Why are they targeting you old-school style? The idea is: If the offer is one of the few things in your IRL mailbox, you might actually look at it.
Yep, sure is. Here are a few ways to mitigate the onslaught: