Chief Marketer Staff

• FedEx to Raise Rates

  Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN, the world’s largest express delivery service, said it will raise its rates an average of 2.8% for shipments within

• NetCreations to Handle Lists Gathered at Airports

  NetCreations Inc., New York, which handles e-mail lists, will build and manage a list for Get2net, which provides public Internet access units for airports.

• Three Computer DMers Report Results

  Three direct marketers of personal computers and related products released their financial results yesterday.Creative Computers Inc., Torrance, CA, reported

• CareerTrack’s Closing Has DMers Job Hunting

  CareerTrack Inc., Boulder, which provides corporate training seminars, is leaving its Boulder home base and putting about 30 to 40 direct marketing professionals–mostly

• Short Cuts

  Royal Mail US Inc., New York, a subsidiary of the British Post Office, named David Walker president, effective Feb. 11. He had been director of the Branded

• DIRECT Listline

  Bedford Package Insert Program A corporate package insert program for the Bedford Fair Apparel Inc. catalogs has been initiated. Inserts can be included

• DIRECT Listline

  Santa Claus Online A new list, Santa Claus Online, contains 10,500 Christmas 1998 home addresses. These addresses were collected from a Web site to which

• Census Bureau to Track Separate Online Sales

  In acknowledgement of the growth of Internet marketing, the Commerce Department said Friday that it will start publishing separate figures for online

• Short Cuts

  Margaret Iadeluca has been appointed vice president in the compiled list division of ALC of New York. In another staff change in that division, Charlie

• LA Newspaper Group Buys Alt Media Company

  The Los Angeles Times and Garden State Newspapers Inc., have jointly acquired California Independent Postal System (CIPS), a provider of alternative distribution