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What to watch: postage and paper prices.


New postal rules are in effect and others are in the works, and the price of market pulp could skyrocket, said several postage and paper specialists at a recent seminar sponsored by Cadmus Communications, Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. .

Third-class eligibility ruling. The final rule on third-class nonprofit mail eligibility restrictions took effect October 1. According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 Neal Denton, executive director of the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, Washington, D.C., the regulation restricts advertising in third-class nonprofit publications to products and services substantially related to the mission of the nonprofit mailer - unless the piece qualifies as a periodical.

A third-class nonprofit periodical must consist of at least 25 percent non-advertising matter; have a title on its front cover in a distinguishable style and size; be formed on printed sheets; and contain within the first five pages an identification statement giving the title, issue date and number, frequency, name and address of the publishing organization, ISSN ISSN
abbr.
International Standard Serial Number
 number if applicable, and subscription price if applicable.

Second-class proposal. The second-class reclassification Reclassification

The process of changing the class of mutual funds once certain requirements have been met. These requirements are generally placed on load mutual funds. Reclassification is not considered to be a taxable event.
 proposal for regular mailers likely will take effect in mid-1996 and would impose a proposed 90 percent density requirement - which essentially means mailing high volumes to individual ZIP codes to receive a deep discount.

Commercial second-class requirements do not apply to second-class nonprofit mailers, but a similar proposal is likely to be included in a nonprofit reclassification filing that is likely to occur next year, said Denton.

Paper prices. According to Joseph P. Donelan II, vice president of A. T. Clayton & Co., Inc., Paper Specialists, Greenwich, Connecticut Greenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 61,101. It is home to many hedge funds and other financial service companies that have left Manhattan. Of the $1. , if the price of market pulp continues to rise at its current pace - up 80 percent since January 1994 - the cost of paper will increase by from 5 percent to 8 percent this month and by an additional 10 percent one year later.

To reduce paper costs, Donelan suggests lower-basis weights, less-costly grades, reduced trim size The size of a map or chart sheet when the excess paper outside the margin has been trimmed off after printing. , fewer pages, and fewer complimentary copies.

Joseph S. Cavarretta, section newsletters editor, ASAE ASAE American Society of Association Executives
ASAE American Society of Agricultural Engineers (Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and Biological Systems)
ASAE Alkali-Sulfite-Anthraquinone-Ethanol
 
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Date:Oct 1, 1995
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