Bloomberg Business Week plunges ahead with alternative delivery

In the wake of our recent post about the need for Canadian magazines to get cracking on alternative delivery comes word that Bloomberg Business Week magazine since December has been working on a strategy to get its magazine delivered by daily newspaper contractors in metropolitan markets. Right now, 9% (about 75,000) of the magazine's 860,000 circ is delivered this way, according to a story in

Strong opposition builds to bill to make sweeping changes to US Postal Service

Proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress would make sweeping changes to the United States Postal Service (USPS), which would inevitably have an impact on Canadian magazines with mail circulation south of the border. Lobbyists for the U.S. magazine industry have been critical of the bill by Congressman Darrell Issa of California, which would reduce delivery to 5 days a week (ending Saturday

Bad news for U.S. periodicals: USPS business model said to be "not viable"

Periodicals in the U.S. account for more than a third of the enormous loss that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has suffered; delivering magazines and newspapers has steadily been losing money for the past 13 fiscal years and reached $642 million in 2009, according to a story in Audience Development. It reports that  a General Accounting Office  (GAO) report says the post office's

US Postal Service announces no increase in magazine mailing rates

This seems a day for postal news. U.S. Postmaster General John E. Potter has sent a letter to customers officially announcing there will be no rate hike for "market dominant products." Magazine publishers had been expecting a 2 to 3 percent increase in May and some had even speculated about 10 percent. "We want to end all speculation," said Potter who, on Wednesday, told a conference in New York