Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports July Sales Results

Dear Industry Member: I'm pleased and excited to announce that longtime ACMA staffer Paul Miller has been promoted to the new position of Executive Vice President & Managing Director. Paul has been a familiar fixture among ACMA members and the overall e-com/DM/catalog industry for years. A "jack of all trades" at the ACMA since 2010, Paul (on the left of the picture with members of the group he led in meetings on Capitol Hill in May) has been responsible for bringing on many new members over the years and the steady growth of the annual ACMA Forum, making it the can't-miss event is has become. Thanks largely to Paul's diligent management, the May 2024 event was off the charts this year compared to 2023, with attendance up 33% and overall revenues increasing by 58%.

The United States Postal Service announced strong improvements in mail delivery service performance across all categories and regions as its third-party- operated air network and mail and package processing and delivery operations continued to stabilize from a historic peak holiday season and severe February storms throughout the country. For the week of March 6 through March 12, 2021, overall service performance recovered to pre-holiday levels with First-Class Mail reaching 83.69 percent of the Post Service’s national performance standard of one-to-three-day delivery. Mailing of Marketing Materials (90.84 percent) and Periodicals (77.64 percent) rebounded to levels of service performance on par with Postal Service deliveries before last year’s record-breaking peak holiday season, from mid-November through mid-January.

The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) released its latest statistical report, which covers 2016 and aggregates data from 29 national associations across Europe. The report indicates that total annual sales…