Topic | Direct Mail

National mail delivery monopolies in the European Union will be dismantled by 2011, with postal companies free to operate to any of the EU's 27 countries, according to wire service reports.

This week, Meet the Broker features Allison Doyle-Eichler, an e-mail list and Internet media broker in the financial services market.

Mail volume was down 3%, or 1.7 billion pieces, for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Postal Service.

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has named Alan C. Kessler chairman and Carolyn Lewis Gallagher vice chairman.

The U.S. Postal Service said Monday it has decided to offer its Premium Forwarding Service permanently after testing it as an experimental product since Aug. 2005.

Collectables Direct Inc. has launched Bodhi Lifestyle, a 40-page catalog of exercise DVDs, books and equipment targeted at health and fitness enthusiasts. The Disabled Veterans

Royal Mail haas begun putting together a panel of industry suppliers to help improve the effectiveness of direct mail campaigns.

Today we meet Bernice Willis of Matt Brown and Associates. She became president of the Dayton, OH firm during the summer of 2003, before her father -- the company's founder -- died in 2004.

Direct mail spending, including preparation, production and postage) reached $58.4 billion in 2007, and may pass $72 billion by 2011, according to a new study from the Winterberry Group.

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has approved enlarging the box used for sending priority mail.