And, what is direct mail if it gets trashed before it is opened? – A Hobson’s choice indeed. Of late, there has been a lot of hue and cry over the privacy breach in direct mail strategies, especially in the West, although in India, we aren’t even close to getting our legal definition right for the word ‘privacy’. Nonetheless, the new Code of Practice released by the New York-headquartered Direct Marketing Association (DMA) may have some far-reaching impact