Cut Costs and Keep Creative

If the lure of approximately 35 percent in postage savings (when mailed at the 5-digit, enhanced presort rate) compels you to make this switch, beware. By mid-2008, the postage loophole, which enables catalogs that conform to the slim-jim size to gain substantial postage savings, may be closing. So if you change formats, your savings may only be for the short term.