Jan. 15 for Postal Rate Hike?

| John Fischer

The U.S. Postal Service is still mum. But Joe Schick, director of postal affairs for Sussex,WI-based printer Quad/Graphics, expects the USPS to announce its 5.4% rate increase by the second week of November and implement the rates by Jan. 15, 2006.

Photo Finish

| Margery Weinstein

It’s summer in Saratoga Springs, NY, but not everyone is headed to the town’s famed racetrack. Several out-of-towners are here not for the ponies but

What’s new? Not much

| Sherry Chiger

After five consecutive months of declines, year-over-year catalog volume rose in July barely. Catalog Tracker, a service of Greenwich, CT-based list and

20th ANNUAL Catalog Awards

| MCM staff

You’re not getting older, you’re getting better that certainly applies to our industry. The possibilities of catalog marketing have expanded thanks to

Postal reform: still waiting

| John Fischer

It seemed like good news when on July 26 the House of Representatives approved H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act by a resounding

Clarity ber alles

| Herschell Gordon Lewis

Seems to me, as a dispassionate observer, that the World Wide Web has wrought a happy evolution in descriptive copy. That evolution is a seismic shift

NEW CATALOGS

| MCM staff

Global Girlfriends Why would a former social worker launch a gifts catalog? Stacey Edgar was inspired by a trip her mother-in-law took with the World