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McHugh bill may be DOA

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Time may be running out for H.R. 22 – also known as the Postal Modernization Act – which Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) has been pushing for nearly five years

BRAVO FOR ENCORE

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In September, multititle mailer Hanover Direct plans to roll out Encore, an apparently successful catalog it tested earlier this year. Encore sells products

VIKING’S IRWIN HELFORD TO RETIRE

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Viking Office Products chairman Irwin Helford, who took over a $13 million office supplies catalog in 1984 and turned it into a $1.7 billion industry

NO FIGHTING THE POSTAL SERVICE

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In the wake of the July 27 ruling rejecting the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers’ lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, Jerry Cerasale, senior vice president,

Sensible, with flashes of brilliance

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Looking through the pages of Catalog Age’s 1999 Annual Gold Award catalog winners, I have the comfortable feeling that sensible and straightforward descriptions

Before you MOVE

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Few people like moving – and even fewer like moving their catalog warehouses. These tips may buy you space and time before you have to make the big move.-

FIRING BACK: You snooze, you lose

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When the Catalog Age staffers picked our brilliant ideas for new catalogs in the Backword section of the June issue, senior managing editor Sherry Chiger

`How can I reduce my load time?’

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The largest component of a Web page, and the part that makes download time the longest, is the graphics. The easiest way to reduce the download time is