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Union Head Says Postal Challenges Won’t Disappear

|  by Jim Tierney

It has certainly been a challenging year for the U.S. Postal Service. And those challenges won't disappear in 2010. Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, says there is no way to sugarcoat the current ...

Scribbles Episode 9: Being Green

Tom Hansen, the Managing Director at Rivet, Chicago will be sharing his thoughts with us using a cartoon version of ...

Reviews and Ratings Can Trump Live Salespeople

|  by Tim Parry

Score one for e-commerce over bricks and mortar. I managed to short out my Samsung BlackJack II PDA last week, getting out of my car and heading into a meeting. I scraped my car keys against the keyboard and after a quick flash, it was history. ...

Big Books Big Business on EBay

|  by Melissa Dowling

Big Book catalogs may be over, now that J.C. Penney has decided to kill off its giant catalog. But old holiday Big Books remain hot sellers on eBay, according to a release from eBay market research firm HammerTap. In the past 30 days, 153 of these ...

Did The Grinch Steal Christmas?

|  by Jim Tierney

No more letters to Santa Claus in North Pole, Alaska? The Mayor of North Pole, AK is up in arms with a decision made by the U.S. Postal Service regarding letters sent to Santa Claus in his ...

QCI Direct “Can” Make a Difference

|  by Jim Tierney

Giving back to the community means something for cleaning supplies and home improvement products merchant QCI Direct, which mails the Home Trends, Sleep Solutions and Picket Fence catalogs. QCI Direct, which is based in Rochester, NY, recently ...