Abacus Indicator: Ready, Set, Spike

| MCM staff

According to the Abacus 2006 Multichannel Annual Trend Report, the fourth-quarter holiday season continues to see the greatest growth across all channels

Profit From Your DMA Panders

| Jim Coogan

When conducting a merge/purge, names will hit against the Direct Marketing Association pander file, which consists of those people who write the DMA indicating they do not want unsolicited mail. Does that mean you should avoid mailing to all of these names?

Postal Reform Gets Down to the Wire

| MCM staff

After 11 years and enough drama, close calls, and finger-pointing to fuel a season’s worth of episodes of the late “West Wing,” Congress passed a sweeping postal reform bill overnight Dec. 9.