Postal Service Ends Fiscal Year with $5.1 Billion Loss: WASHINGTON, DC—Nov. 16, 2011—The U.S. Postal Service ended its 2011 fiscal year (Oct. 1, 2010 – Sept. 30, 2011) with a net loss of $5.1 billion. The year-end loss would have been approximately $10.6 billion had it not been for...

B-to-b ad pages grow modestly in August: New York—B-to-b print ad pages increased 0.5% in August compared with August 2010, according to data released by American Business Media's Business Information Network. Ad pages were up 1.

SP Newsprint files bankruptcy

White Birch idles newsprint mills in Quebec

Turner offers a bill to bust down export a barriers:

More exports mean more jobs as the region struggles to emerge from the economic downturn, and no business knows that better than Appleton Papers Inc.

NAPUS: A Tale of Two Postal Bills: From The National Association of Postmasters of the United States – eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin Two vastly different postal bills are pending before the House and Senate. The bills, H.R. 2309 and S. 1789, contain numerous divisive provisions; some are common to both. Consequently, they do not seem to be on the fast track.

Bennet: USPS 'Time-Out' Provides More Time to Evaluate Effects of …: Washington, DC –Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today announced that the USPS has issued a temporary “time-out” on post office closings that will provide more time for the Agency to examine potential effects of ...

Print Magazines Still Dominate Overall Magazine Engagement: In its annual Survey of the American Consumer, media and consumer research firm Gfk MRI interviewed approximately 26,000 American adults on their media consumption habits, including magazines. The latest survey finds that out of 1.6 billion magazine exposures, print was the format turned to by 9 out of 10 of the overall audience.

Financial Times Web App Gains One Million Registrants: Financial Times reaches yet another milestone, now boasting one million registrants for its native web app. Apps.FT.com launched in June, after FT decided to go without Apple for its subscription-based app offering.

QR Codes and the Gender Gap:
I recently aggregated all of the QR code demographic and usage data I could find (and am adding to it all the time), and one of the trends that surprised me is while much of the data is highly consistent — such as age demographics and usage patterns — gender is not one of them.

Paper maker UPM prepares for temporary lay-offs:

Forest group UPM-Kymmene said it is preparing temporary lay-offs in several Finnish paper mills due to weak demand.

Print-Only Impressions Still Dominate Overall Magazine Audience Engagement: For those who still doubt that magazines have a place in the digital world, new data proves magazines’ growing digital prowess. According to GfK MRI, adults who read magazines on digital platforms (including desktop/laptop computers, tablets, e-readers and smartphones) make up 11 percent of gross magazine audience impressions.

Digital Readers 11 Percent of Total Magazine Audience: For those who still doubt that magazine content has a place in the digital world, new data proves magazines’ growing digital prowess.

Two Sides' seminar reveals that "print is the new cool": Two Sides Autumn Seminar reaffirms the popularity of print as an essential medium for media planners with leading media players citing print as being "the new cool" and having a unique appeal compared to digital media.Held at Stationers' Hall in London on 7 November the Autumn Seminar entitled: "Why print has a key role to play in the integrated future of marketing" included influential brand owners and media decision makers.Leading figures from the print and paper industries and other members o

Flint Group Flexographic Products announces further price increase for Printing Plates: Since the middle of 2010 raw material and energy costs have grown considerably - with some materials witnessing growth rates of up to 100%. Despite Flint Group continuously pushing productivity and cost savings initiatives, the raw material cost increases placed on the market have not been able to be absorbed and will have to be passed on. Subsequently Flint Group Flexographic Products is forced to increase prices for nyloflex® and nyloprint® printing plates in 2012.

MWV to Spin Off Consumer & Office Products Business and Merge it with ACCO Brands Corporation: (USA)MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), a global leader in packaging, today announced that the company will spin off its Consumer & Office Products business and has signed a definitive agreement to merge the business into ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE: ABD...

Marc Peyser Promoted to Budget Travel Editor: This story first appears on FOLIO: sister site, minonline.

Bowater Mersey gets tax break:
The Region of Queens Municipality in Nova Scotia has voted today to give the Bowater Mersey mill a moderate tax break of 15%, or approximately $135,000/yr over 10 years.

Heidelberg shows "revolutionary" mailing line: Heidelberg has joined forces with Kodak and perfector manufacturer Popp to produce a mailing line that the companies believe could revolutionise personalised mailing.

William Pollak To Leave ALM In Early 2012:

USPS loses $5.1 billion for fiscal 2011: Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Postal Service ended its fiscal year 2011 with a net loss of $5.1 billion, compared with an $8.5 billion loss the year earlier.

White Birch Paper Company to Idle Stadacona Mill in Quebec City: (CANADA)White Birch Paper Company today announced that it will cease production temporarily at its Stadacona paper mill, in Quebec City, commencing December 9, 2011...

Brown Printing and Publisher Future US Expand Their Relationship: WASECA, MN—Nov. 15, 2011—Brown Printing has signed a multiyear, multimillion dollar agreement with Future US to supply manufacturing and distribution solutions for 20 of the publisher’s titles and special editions. This agreement...

MPA: Tablet users consuming more magazine content: New York—Nine in 10 magazine readers who access magazines via mobile devices said they are reading as much or more magazine content since acquiring their tablet or e-reader, according to “The Magazine Mobile Reader,” a study...

Two Unions Continue Negotiations with U.S. Postal Service: WASHINGTON, DC—Nov. 20, 2011—Although the contracts with the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO (NALC) and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO (NPMHU) expired at midnight Sunday, Nov. 20, the Postal Service...

Postmaster General Urges Congress to Reevaluate the Postal Reform Bills: WASHINGTON, DC—Nov. 21, 2011—In a speech delivered to the National Press Club, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe encouraged Congress to step back and take a second look at postal reform legislation as currently drafted in the House...

USPS Pension Overfunding Part 1: Pro and Con Unions and Users …: The APWU (American Postal Workers Union) and other postal unions make the case that: “The financial problems facing the Postal Service were made significantly worse by a Bush-era mandate that the agency pre-fund ...