Trends of Declining Credit Card Mail Continue in 2008

October 1, 2008

The financial research organization Mintel Compremedia reports today that the amount of materials sent by credit card companies to customers and potential customers through the U.S. mail system has declined by 3% in 2008. This continues a decrease in credit card mail volume since the month of October, 2007. Indeed, since 2007, the total amount of material sent by credit card companies throught the U.S. mail has dropped by 19%-from 900 million documents sent through the mail in October 2007, to 729 million documents sent out in January of 2008. [Read more]