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  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • Electronic Promotions Threaten DM Couponing

    WHILE DIRECT MAIL remained a favored method of receiving samples or coupons, ranking second only behind free-standing inserts in newspapers, its popularity

  • After Delays, E-centives Emerge on the Web

    HERE’S A NICE little tale about the importance of keeping on your toes when doing Web marketing.Bethesda, MD-based Emaginet (www.emaginet.com), founded

  • People

    Time Life Inc., Alexandria, VA, named Amy Golden vice president, new product development, for its book unit.Epsilon, Burlington, MA, tapped Michael Iaccarino

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • SHOW AND TELL

    THE CONCEPT OF giving consumers “access” to their personal data-allowing them to see, and if necessary correct, information marketers possess about them-seems

  • B-to-B DMers Suffer from Market Woes

    BUSINESS-TO-business DMers couldn’t escape the stock market’s downturns during the last three months.The 32 B-to-B direct marketers tracked by Gruppo,

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly

  • Will Fallout From Sweeps Lawsuits Affect Response to Consumer Mailings?

    THE RECENT CONTROVERSY over the American Family Publishers and Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes contests will cause problems next year for both magazine

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.