Chief Marketer Staff

• More Mail Irradiation Study Needed: US Agency

  Further study is needed to determine if irradiated mail poses a serious health risk to mail handlers, according to the U.S. Office of Compliance. Office

• Kansas Do-Not-Call Law Stalled: Reports

  Kansas residents, expecting the state’s telemarketing do-not-call law to take effect this week, may be in for a surprise. The law passed in May and was

• Trust Fund Set up for Daughter of Jens Runge

  A trust fund has been set up for Mia Sophie, the three-month old daughter of Jens Runge, a vice president at Direct Media Inc., who was murdered June

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  Sole Providers Custom sneakers can add legs to any branding activity. (Hey, if you don’t like the jokes, why don’t you try writing this page for 28 straight

• Reality Check

  Almost 60 percent of promotion agency professionals received no salary increase in 2001. That fact is hardly a surprise, considering that the recession

• Credit Card Games

  Credit card giants MasterCard, Visa, and American Express will square off directly this summer by launching dueling sweepstakes built around their largest

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  Catalog Bloopers

  OF COURSE, there’s no way that anything in this column applies to you or me. But all of us have seen the results of sloppy catalog production books thrown

• Agency Moves

  Gage, Minneapolis, promoted Tom Wilson to vp-managing director to oversee the agency’s channel marketing practice. Tracy Locke Partnership, Wilton, CT,

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  USPS, Nonprofits Spar Over Co-op Rules

  The U.S. Postal Service and two groups representing nonprofit mailers are butting heads over two pending bills to relax the cooperative mail rule. Those

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  TV Guiding

  Searching for that perfect TV tie-in, but just don’t have the resources to hook up with Friends or The Simpsons? Never fear. PROMO is here to give you