Postal: Don’t Get Mad – Get Involved!

| MCM staff

Those of us actively involved in the American Catalog Mailers Association have heard loud and clear from numerous government officials that the massive rate hike happened because we, the catalog mailers, were not part of the process. We were not in Washington educating both the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission on the nature of our business.

USPS: No Rate Hike in 2010

| Jim Tierney

Catalogers planning their 2010 budgets received a big boost of good news Thursday as Postmaster General John E. Potter declared there would be no increase in prices for

A Quick Social Media Poll

| MCM staff

(LI) How do you use social media for business? (Choose all that apply) To monitor what is being said about me or my company To promote products and services To engage in conversation To create new leads We are not using social media yet To …

A Quick Social Media Usage Poll

| MCM staff

(FB) How do you use social media for business? (Choose all that apply) To monitor what is being said about me or my company To promote products and services To engage in conversation To create new leads We are not using social media yet To …

What’s Driving Gerry Pike’s Crusade?

| Tim Parry

Why is Gerry Pike doing this? The DMA seemed to be falling apart, and it had stopped listening to its members. Pike talked with MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT today about why he wants DMA members’ proxy votes, and why the campaign is important to him.

More Mill Downtime for NewPage

| Jim Tierney

NewPage Corp., the top producer of coated freesheet paper in North America, announced Oct. 13 it plans to take about 160,000 tons of market-related downtime in the fourth quarter of 2009.