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...Upside of Junk Mail Regarding Jeremy Caplan's article "De-Cluttering Your Mailbox": there are many reasons we should encourage instead of discourage direct-mail advertising [Dec. 15]. Among the most important: stop your direct mail and watch the cost of a postage stamp soar. Jim Elliott, Lemon Grove, California...
...advice Caplan offered would remove only a small portion of the junk that arrives in my mailbox. While I have not found a way to eliminate junk mail, I have a tactic that at least makes me feel a little better about receiving it. When I get any unwanted mail with a prepaid return envelope (so long as it is not from a charity), I stuff that envelope as full as I can with junk from a different source and put it back in the mail. This does not relieve the real problem, but it gives the postal service much...
Regarding Jeremy Caplan's article "De-Cluttering Your Mailbox": there are many reasons we should encourage instead of discourage direct-mail advertising [Dec. 15]. Among the most important: stop your direct mail and watch the cost of a postage stamp soar. Jim Elliott, LEMON GROVE, CALIF...
...global income scale. The world's poorest are affected, though, by commodity price volatility and fluctuating food and fuel costs. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking, a global network of 54 microfinance institutions and banks in 30 countries, spoke to Time's Jeremy Caplan recently about how the financial crisis has affected those on the lower rungs of the world's economic ladder...
...tripled its number of stores and employees, and committed to a broad new slate of policies on the environment. The company maintains a mixed reputation on quality, though, in the midst of an increasingly tough economic climate. In a series of recent conversations, Dahlvig spoke with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about why the tough business climate works in Ikea's favor, where the company plans to expand, and what Ikea is doing to be greener...