Table A3-20
Standard Mail Treatment by Usefulness
(Percentage of Pieces)
Postal Fiscal Years 1987, 2008 and 2009
(Diary Data)
BL_I A318ROW _NAME_ _LABEL_ COL1 COL2
Useful READ PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 69.30184 73.35305
Useful LOOKED AT PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 19.47431 23.50499
Useful DISCARDED PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 3.959318 4.785686
Useful SET ASIDE PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 66.9425 70.15366
Useful Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.555766 0.368239
Treatment Usefulness Interesting READ PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 14.99754 14.58455
Useful Interesting Not Interesting Interesting LOOKED AT PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 21.74005 24.56533
1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 Interesting DISCARDED PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 7.279409 8.929357
Read 68.0 69.3 73.4 20.2 15.0 14.6 7.0 12.8 11.4 Interesting SET ASIDE PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 19.54046 19.25164
Looked at 24.4 19.5 23.5 36.5 21.7 24.6 21.5 53.0 51.0 Interesting Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.279954 0.168432
Discarded 4.5 4.0 4.8 12.9 7.3 8.9 66.0 79.2 83.9 Not interesting READ PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 12.79829 11.425
Set aside 58.2 66.9 70.2 25.6 19.5 19.3 8.4 9.3 10.3 Not interesting LOOKED AT PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 53.03526 50.9935
Not interesting DISCARDED PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 79.19156 83.86038
Treatment Usefulness Not interesting SET ASIDE PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 9.291231 10.29823
Objectionable Don't Know/No Answer Total Not interesting Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.349514 0.153213
1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 Objectionable READ PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 2.592182 0.309292
Read 2.2 2.6 0.3 2.6 0.3 0.3 100.0 100.0 100.0 Objectionable LOOKED AT PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 5.492906 0.751596
Looked at 5.2 5.5 0.8 12.4 0.3 0.2 100.0 100.0 100.0 Objectionable DISCARDED PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 9.115615 2.159462
Discarded 12.9 9.1 2.2 3.7 0.5 0.3 100.0 100.0 100.0 Objectionable SET ASIDE PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 3.806176 0.075921
Set aside 4.6 3.8 0.1 3.2 0.4 0.2 100.0 100.0 100.0 Objectionable Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.139706 0.02535
Note: Percents are row percentages within each Treatment category.  Don't know/No answer READ PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.310139 0.328117
Note: Totals may not sum to 100 due to rounding. Don't know/No answer LOOKED AT PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.257478 0.184587
Don't know/No answer DISCARDED PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.454098 0.265116
Don't know/No answer SET ASIDE PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0.419626 0.220552
Don't know/No answer Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 98.67506 99.28477