It must have been a more polite age. In 1923, Beacon Adjustment Co. (“Collections Everywhere”) offered a series of posterettes, poster-style stickers, for use in collecting on invoices.
One pictured a man with binoculars. The copy? “Have been looking for your payment quite a while.”
The posterettes, ten in all, were written by the “nationally famous” direct mail copywriter Louis Victor Eytinge. They came in three colors, and were bound in booklet form. continue reading…