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  • BRAVE NEW WORLD

    Unless you’ve spent the last few years on Pluto, you know that the Internet has grown massively in popularity, and that has had a huge effect on how traditional

  • The Panning of Peterman Panned

    YOU’VE GOT TO give John Peterman this much credit: While his catalog may have gone out in a blaze of glory, the flames have yet to die, judging from the

  • Hey Kids-Free Cockroaches!

    AT DIRECT, we love Archie McPhee and Co., Seattle’s self-proclaimed “Outfitters of Popular Culture.” Our glee was compounded when a mailer announcing

  • GMHC Mailing Draws Fire

    A TEST MAILING in March of a Gay Men’s Health Crisis fundraising letter using the Matthew Shepard tragedy as a hook to ask people to donate to the organization

  • USPS Plans Mail-Track DB

    THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE is developing a database that will allow customers to track their own mail and give postal officials a better handle on mail flows

  • The Brand Plays On

    ONCE UPON A time, retail catalogs were about getting customers into the store to buy product. Each and every customer received a catalog for each and

  • LISTLINE

    Focus Direct Buys Creative List Solutions San Antonio, TX-based Focus Direct Inc. has acquired Creative List Solutions, Provo, UT.The transaction delivers

  • Loring Starts Agency

    LIST VETERAN BART Loring has opened a full-service direct response agency in New City, NY. Loring Direct Response will offer personalized list and alternative

  • Digital Buzzwords

    NO WONDER YOU’RE in a bad mood. It’s late, and you’re proofing a catalog page when you realize that the photo and the caption have nothing to do with

  • Mailers Kept Their Promise-But Did the USPS?

    DESPITE A YEAR of record mail volume, postal revenue has fallen way below the U.S. Postal Service’s projections of a $200 million profit for fiscal 1999.