Before eBay: Monthly Pipe Mailers
I found a bag of old pipe mailers ranging from the mid to late 90’s today (3 or 4 dozen) while cleaning out my garage. Mailers from Nikos Levin, Edwards Tobacco and R&E Pipes.
If I remember, it was in the fall of 1995 that eBay came on line and began to slowly strangle this more costly and less efficient type of direct marketing. No judgment here, it is the way of the world, things change. Too bad though, these were a lot of fun and the monthly arrival of a Levin or Edwards mailer was a great excuse for a nice sit down and a B&B (bowl and beverage) as you poured over the photos.
From a pre eBay world, photos from a Nikos Levin mailer dated May 1995.
I found a bag of old pipe mailers ranging from the mid to late 90’s today (3 or 4 dozen) while cleaning out my garage. Mailers from Nikos Levin, Edwards Tobacco and R&E Pipes.
If I remember, it was in the fall of 1995 that eBay came on line and began to slowly strangle this more costly and less efficient type of direct marketing. No judgment here, it is the way of the world, things change. Too bad though, these were a lot of fun and the monthly arrival of a Levin or Edwards mailer was a great excuse for a nice sit down and a B&B (bowl and beverage) as you poured over the photos.
From a pre eBay world, photos from a Nikos Levin mailer dated May 1995.
