Direct mail trends
Report published by U.S. Postal Service for last quarter
- Posted a $459 million loss
- Takes an average of 2.5 days to deliver mail
- 93.3% of First Class mail is delivered on time
- Marketing mail revenue up $324 million
- Volume up 3.5% to 545 million pieces
- (indicates a growing need for production color systems to produce variable data direct mail
pieces)