Slim-jims get squeezed

| Jim Tierney

Letter-size catalogs, aka “slim-jims” have helped many a mailer get through tough times by reducing postage and paper costs. But a proposed rule adjustment to slim-jim

Not so many March mailings

| Tim Parry

The weak U.S. economy has seen catalogers tightening their belts, and now it appears they have changed their mailing habits. Numbers reported by Catalog

Add-a-Name Works for Brookstone

| Tim Parry

If you could mail one more book into a postal zone, and you have a prospect who may be the right target, and the process is going to save you money at the post office, would you go for it? Of course you would. See how it’s working for Brookstone, and how the gadgets merchant is benefiting