Editor’s Take: On the Great Postal Disaster of 2007

So, one can always hope that the catalog/multichannel business will pull through the tough times ahead as a more viable way of doing business.

On the glass-half-empty side, however, this whole thing stinks, doesn’t it? This business, which has thrived through past postal adversity, certainly doesn’t deserve postage increases running as high as 40 frickin’ percent, due to a seriously flawed postal rate-making system.