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ROI Solutions: Data Geek Speak — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:03 +0000

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ROI Solutions: Data Geek Speak — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:39:13 +0000

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ROI Solutions: Data Geek Speak — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:44:32 +0000

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Comment on Direct Mail Tries to Go Green. No, Really. by kmm

kmm — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:11:05 +0000

dear plarson…

b-b-but who is to say what constitutes “junk” mail? a-a-and what’s the difference between a magazine and a catalog? would you really be wiling to pay $3 to $5 more per issue for your magazine subscriptions?

and in fact i believe that the postal service has already done the numbers, and concluded that they are making the maximum amount of money possible off of “junk” mail. that is, it’s a commodity with almost perfect elasticity of demand — if they increase the cost to send junk mail fewer people will use the service, their gross revenues will fall, while their fixed costs remain relatively unchanged. voila, economic bust-time!

Comment on Direct Mail Tries to Go Green. No, Really. by plarson

plarson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:00:13 +0000

Yellow pages.
I worked as a proofreader for a company that produced the telephone books for New South Wales and Queensland in Australia for almost a decade. The advertising part of the phone book were the Pink Pages back then, and the paper we used was imported from Canada and the US. Word came down that they were changing the color from pink to yellow for “environmental” reasons. It turned out that there were complaints because the red dye they used to produce the paper was changing the color of the river and ocean waters near the paper mills, the switch to yellow was done because it didn’t show up as much in the water…..

Junk Mail / snail spam
If the USPS charged say a flat rate of $2.00 for each piece of Junk Mail ($3 – $5.00 for catalogs) They would weed out a lot of stuff, and at the same time lowering operating costs, less money in fuel to transport the stuff, fewer postmen needed as probably 50 to 70% of mail delivered is junk, and they can pass my house 3 or 4 days a week; it could also fix the delivery of unwanted credit card offers……Peter