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The U.S. Postal Service launched a two-year experiment last week for its Premium Fowarding Service (PFS), to measure interest in a personalized service that allows residential customers who are away from their main address for two weeks to a year to receive their mail at a temporary address, DM News reports. The service could be useful to those who own second homes, do a lot of business travel, have temporary work assignments, or are attending college, among others.
PFS will provide shipments of mail every Wednesday, from the customer’s main address to the temporary address, by Priority Mail, at the cost of a $10 enrollment fee and a weekly, per-shipment charge of $10. PFS is available only for domestic mail.
The Spanish Radio Association says Arbitron still has not addressed its concerns and research questions regarding the PPM and how “Hispanics are recruited and represented, and how the PPM panel is maintained.”
The SRA has been working with Arbitron in…
The Chicago Tribune’s new design will launch on Sept. 29, Tribune Co. chief operating officer Randy Michaels says. No details on the redesign have been released; the paper has already been decreasing its editorial pages to create a more even split…
Teens are not the best demo to target with cell phone advertising, according to a new study from comScore. Though they are cell phone-savvy, most of them - 70 percent - have their phones paid for by parents, which means…
CNN won its second night of coverage of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. The network averaged 3.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, despite the fact that Fox drew nearly even for the night.
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Generation Y is the most self-indulgent, Generation X is the most innovative, and Boomers are the most productive, while the “Silent Generation” and the “Greatest Generation” are the most admired, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, writes MarketingCharts.
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To encourage shoppers to buy more back-to-school items, retailers often implement “loss leader” strategies: that is, selling items at a loss or even giving them away in hopes that the reductions will attract shoppers who will then buy other, more…
