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The question of whether the U.S. Postal Service should be allowed to negotiate service contracts with mailers is fast becoming a major issue threatening

Apparel cataloger Coldwater Creek Inc., Sandpoint, ID, has sold its Milepost Four men’s catalog to RKC Mail LLC. Terms were not disclosed. Coldwater expects

InfoUSA has named Susan Henricks executive vice president. Henricks will join the Omaha, NE compiler from First Data Enterprises, where she is managing

The U.S. Postal Service has released the results of a report that estimates the environmental cost of Standard A mail at $126 million, or less than 0.2

Imagine a co-op for Ally McBeal.The lovelorn and lovable Ally is one of television’s most popular young urban professionals. She also could be a prototype

On a particularly hot day last month, we were amused to receive a press release touting Yuletide spirits.Art Shelter, a “socially responsible” investment

Lily Tomlin’s “Ernestine the Operator” once rhapsodized about the phone company’s technology outstripping technicians’ know-how. “Watch this,” she snorted,

As DIRECT went to press, the clock was ticking on the proposed American List Counsel Inc./Direct Media Inc. deal. A non-binding letter of intent signed

E-mail lists aren’t the only prospect sources costing a pretty penny: An insurer specializing in the SOHO and small business market charges its field

In Maine, telemarketing gets lots of respect. Now that lobstering and lumbering no longer sustain the citizenry, some 25,000 people of a population of