Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Loose Cannon: ZIP+4 Brought To Heel

  News item: According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Postal Service has awarded the shoe department of Saks Fifth Avenue

• Email

  Image Fiasco: What AOL’s Changes Mean to You

  AOL last week spurred a ruckus in the e-mail marketing industry when it rolled out a new version of its AOL.com and AIM.com free e-mail services that automatically block images by default.

  First the Email Experience Council issued a report saying that the services were blocking all images by default. Then deliverability concern Return Path issued a report saying that according to its tests, the services were blocking images only for new subscribers.

  So which is it, and what does it all mean to you?

• Email

  Belligerant Anti-Spammer Watch: Mumma’s Claims Debunked

  Self-proclaimed tireless anti-spam litigator Mark Mumma has been telling anyone gullible enough to believe him that he had no idea I was a reporter during an interview in which he went ballistic earlier this year.

• Email

  Stupid Media Watch: Narcissists Declare “E-mail Bankruptcy”

  Multiple news outlets

• Listline e-Newsletter 05/29/07

  The names of more than 1 million individuals have been assembled on this
  file. It’s comprised of transaction data that identifies product
  purchase categories.

• Agencies

  FTC Reported Checking GoogleClick’s Antitrust Cred

  The Federal Trade Commission will reportedly check the antitrust impact of Google’s intended $3.1 billion purchase of ad management firm DoubleClick.

• Agencies

  PRC Endorses Only Short-Term Cut in Flats Rates

  (MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT) The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) agreed on Friday that catalog mailers deserve a break — but only a small, temporary one.

• Agencies

  Bombay Company Sales Drop in Q1

  Home furnishings supplier The Bombay Co. said Friday that first-quarter revenue slipped 11.9% to $104.6 million compared to $118.7 million for the same quarter in 2006.

• Digital

  Real Estate Search Engine Completes Funding Round

  Real estate search engine Trulia announced it has secured $10 million in third-round funding from a group led by Sequoia Capital and including previous venture investors Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co.

• Agencies

  Best Buy Accused of Deceiving Customers

  The Connecticut Attorney General has served Best Buy with a lawsuit claiming that the retailer deceived and overcharged customers through its in-store kiosks.