Table A3-46
Standard Mail from Insurance Companies
Reaction to Mail Pieces 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 67.61814 63.39778 49.39827 49.04655 10.64797 9.389725
Previous customer Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 72.82321 70.68545 55.22062 66.84925 12.35997 14.42928
Previous customer Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 84.2398 71.37193 86.06638 67.06293 12.49085 13.93809
Previous customer ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 65.11885 68.95379 62.99035 57.57699 3.707469 10.23206
Organization known Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 25.60059 21.78304 10.27366 11.79898 0.788031 1.894451
Organization known Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 25.28793 17.07932 13.72167 11.98744 1.347326 0.487416
Shape Read
(Immediately and Set Aside)
Found Useful Will Respond Organization known Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 32.37365 81.4074 0 52.1422 0 0
Organization known ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 32.96713 36.89549 16.39185 16.45996 0.836552 0.300309
1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 Organization unknown Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 24.72176 21.05522 6.467809 6.069915 3.179272 1.668628
Previous customer:                   Organization unknown Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 28.72588 30.34733 9.99641 6.886659 1.141992 10.41233
Letter size envelope 59.7 67.6 63.4 46.3 49.4 49.0 12.2 10.6 9.4 Organization unknown Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 56.5692 36.46906 0 0 43.4308 0
Larger envelope 69.6 72.8 70.7 49.5 55.2 66.8 11.3 12.4 14.4 Organization unknown ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 28.54368 32.39114 6.61394 13.13185 0.556557 1.138228
Organization known:                   Don't know/No answer Letter size envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 12.60161 12.85189 6.381491 7.955545 1.030407 4.440044
Letter size envelope 37.4 25.6 21.8 19.1 10.3 11.8 4.3 0.8 1.9 Don't know/No answer Larger envelope PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 21.94639 16.93391 8.630152 8.903537 5.248983 0
Larger envelope 39.4 25.3 17.1 29.5 13.7 12.0 10.1 1.3 0.5 Don't know/No answer Catalog PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 0 61.16888 0 0 0 0
Organization unknown:                   Don't know/No answer ALL OTHER PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 11.3257 21.78946 7.180647 9.183459 2.899219 5.566566
Letter size envelope 22.2 24.7 21.1 8.6 6.5 6.1 2.0 3.2 1.7  
Larger envelope 25.3 28.7 30.3 11.9 10.0 6.9 3.2 1.1 10.4  
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.