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Agencies

  • USPS Kills Auto Day Mail Program

    Under fire from the Newspaper Association of America and even some local mailers, the U.S. Postal Service shelved plans last month to launch its Auto

  • Sweetening the Pot

    Publishing files, once the most basic of lists, are now being offered to mailers with a variety of bells and whistles, including modeling, regression

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

    Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,

  • Hochberg Made SBA Deputy Administrator

    Cataloger Fred P. Hochberg, former president/CEO of Lillian Vernon Corp., was sworn in last month as deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

  • Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

    Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such

  • On the Road Again

    BOULDER, CO – Schwinn, the self-proclaimed American Classic, has sponsorship partners clinging to it like swarms of bees on a branch. Kraft Food’s Tang

  • THE DEL POLITO LETTER

    Postal rate cases usually center on four basic tasks: defining the amount of new revenue needed to ensure break-even operation; tracing back and attributing

  • U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response

    Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that

  • Hollywood Holds the Line

    Marketers spent an estimated $5.14 billion on promotional licenses in 1997, a 3 percent increase driven mostly by film tie-ins. At the same time, consumer

  • Kemmler’s Law

    Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.