DIMAC Direct Inc., a Bridgeton, MO-based direct marketing service bureau, agreed earlier this month to pay the U.S. Postal Service a total of $1.2 million to settle charges of filing a false postage statement with the USPS nearly three years ago, DIRECT Newsline has learned.
According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court, St. Louis, by the USPS, DIMAC filed a false postage statement in November 1996 when one of its employees added portions of an unidentified client’s mail to three trays of mail of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida which had been already processed.
Company president John Menough, said the company, which was owned by Heritage Media at the time, pleaded no contest to the charge because, “although we believe we were innocent and there were no bad business practices, we felt it was too expensive to fight it.”
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