New Orleans Re-Opens as Market for Periodicals: Catalogs Still Banned

A New Orleans mail-processing center has begun accepting standard class advertising and periodicals mailings for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck. While some of the affected areas had been accepting these classes of mail, the most heavily affected areas, which include New Orleans and portions of Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, were not receiving them.

On Friday, the U.S. Postal Service officially reopened the New Orleans processing center. (The center had been operating in