Table A3-42
Standard Mail from Publishers
Reaction to Mail Piece by Familiarity and Shape
(Percentage of Pieces)
Postal Fiscal Years 1987, 2008 and 2009
(Diary Data)
BL_F A341ROW _NAME_ _LABEL_ C1Y1 C1Y2 C2Y1 C2Y2 C3Y1 C3Y2
Previous customer Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 68.92867 68.26078 47.82316 50.3713 19.97742 22.57977
Previous customer Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 66.06121 65.14603 56.80482 51.22729 24.60513 21.81421
Previous customer Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 67.76229 68.80471 51.83892 66.35434 17.63066 14.02856
Previous customer ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 77.15661 77.3517 68.97896 73.64874 10.51251 11.87539
Organization known Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 33.13879 29.0584 11.35434 8.175665 2.153711 3.151478
Organization known Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 26.75708 24.39454 17.72626 10.80439 2.187542 4.757944
Shape Read
(Immediately and Set Aside)
Found Useful Will Respond Organization known Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 37.32925 37.71645 16.29815 24.49658 2.188681 7.140634
Organization known ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 51.01807 62.3402 36.64717 44.23441 3.346458 3.104283
1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 Organization unknown Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 35.60786 44.46401 5.582242 6.601198 3.471244 1.977232
Previous customer:                   Organization unknown Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 26.13566 31.55969 8.88806 6.490474 0 0
Letter size envelope 77.2 68.9 68.3 54.1 47.8 50.4 31.9 20.0 22.6 Organization unknown Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 33.50471 56.31502 14.53599 10.73303 3.061044 12.32776
Larger envelope 68.8 66.1 65.1 44.8 56.8 51.2 25.8 24.6 21.8 Organization unknown ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 39.73527 33.18173 23.09544 28.45729 2.786374 1.670684
Catalog 78.7 67.8 68.8 72.7 51.8 66.4 22.1 17.6 14.0 Don't know/No answer Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 14.7241 16.25499 7.389367 10.26847 8.327299 6.489393
Organization known:                   Don't know/No answer Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 25.40884 13.95965 23.68386 15.81059 19.67847 17.91858
Letter size envelope 34.2 33.1 29.1 20.8 11.4 8.2 5.7 2.2 3.2 Don't know/No answer Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 48.21814 49.97404 5.716494 44.7746 5.495661 0
Larger envelope 31.3 26.8 24.4 13.3 17.7 10.8 7.7 2.2 4.8 Don't know/No answer ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 24.22328 23.9204 19.06089 20.73882 4.403844 4.908676
Catalog 48.3 37.3 37.7 31.1 16.3 24.5 5.4 2.2 7.1  
Organization unknown:                    
Letter size envelope 31.3 35.6 44.5 13.5 5.6 6.6 3.7 3.5 2.0  
Larger envelope 35.8 26.1 31.6 13.9 8.9 6.5 7.4 0.0 0.0  
Catalog 46.0 33.5 56.3 16.7 14.5 10.7 6.9 3.1 12.3  
NOTE: Percentages represent row percentages within each familiarity and shape category;
these do not sum to 100 due to the inclusion of multiple questions in this table.