The stunning thought process of the USPS

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

...junk mail...

Hey buddy, that's a four letter word where I come from. It Direct Mail Marketing.

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Most of the pressure for price increases has little to do with total demand but with increased cost of doing business (how much do you think a 40% increase in the price of gas affects them with all their delivery vehicles, for example).

Interesting that you bring up fuel costs and usage. Even with as large of a fleet of vehicles that the USPS has, they do not do any consumption/usage tracking and are unable to forecast needs. In this current fuel market, strategic planning is a tremendous money saver on this significant cost factor. Southwest Airlines for example uses this to their benefit.

Originally Posted by Ponine

before and since 9/11
I have shipped/mailed with postage on them directly, an inflatable ball, inflated; and a stuffed Mickey Mouse.

And used paint cans, milk cartons, and plastic fish as outside packaging.

I'm weird, I know.

That is just randomly odd. So naturally, I love it!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Hey buddy, that's a four letter word where I come from. It Direct Mail Marketing.

Let's compromise. I'll grant that what you send out is Direct Mail Marketing if you'll grant that what I receive is junk mail.

We'll just start thinking of the postal service as a magical alchemical process that turns gold into ****.

[Moonliner]

Humm perhaps we should launch a drive to create a "National do not mail list" to match the do not call one....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Humm perhaps we should launch a drive to create a "National do not mail list" to match the do not call one....

There is one. Kevy posted it somewhere here recently.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

There is one. Kevy posted it somewhere here recently.

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

For anyone who wants to add their name to a national "Do Not Mail" list, there is one available. It is managed by the Direct Marketers Association (DMA), a national trade organization for Direct Marketers. It is easy to join their Do Not Mail registry. Just go to their web site http://www.the-dma.org/ and click the "Remove my name from mailing lists.

The DMA will add your name and address to a list that responsible direct mail marketers will use to run their mailing lists against. In the direct mail business, we call it the Pander list and use it on most all of our mailings (we don't use it in cases where the organization, most commonly a non-profit, supplies us a list of past contributors/participants or other such "house" lists).

Of course, this is not a guarantee that you will be removed from all mail lists - it is a voluntary procedure. And anyone who is doing a saturation mailing (where it goes to every Postal address) will not do a suppression, but it should help keep you off some of the lists.

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