Table A3-69
Unaddressed Mail Received Response to Bundled Flyers by Industry
(Percentage of Mail Received by Households)
Postal Fiscal Years 1987, 2006 and 2007
(Diary Data)
Industry Read Immediately Found Useful
1987 2006 2007 1987 2006 2007
Financial:            
Bank 18.9 15.9 13.4 11.2 17.9 9.5
Insurance company 12.5 12.7 5.8 7.7 8.4 6.2
Real estate/Mortgage 13.3 24.2 8.1 9.0 9.3 8.9
   Total Financial 16.1 14.4 6.6 10.1 9.1 6.7
Merchants:            
Supermarkets 37.7 32.2 33.2 46.8 51.5 53.5
Department store 33.9 29.1 31.9 39.8 41.5 44.0
Mail order company 18.5 9.0 13.8 19.0 7.3 12.4
Specialty store 24.6 19.9 18.7 28.4 26.4 26.6
Publisher 33.6 24.5 25.3 39.9 34.4 36.3
Restaurant 31.6 25.0 24.4 33.3 34.6 35.9
Consumer packaged goods 17.4 15.8 13.3 15.0 17.1 21.5
Auto dealers 0.8 13.0 8.6 2.8 11.6 10.0
Service stations 17.9 8.7 10.0 20.4 14.6 10.5
   Total Merchants 27.1 25.1 25.0 35.7 36.3 36.8
Services:            
Medical 12.6 28.2 22.2 10.6 28.5 31.3
Other professional 17.3 31.1 4.3 17.0 25.4 10.2
Leisure service 26.0 29.8 11.3 30.9 26.0 29.0
Craftsman 22.9 4.1 3.0 10.4 11.3 9.9
   Total Services 17.1 26.4 16.2 15.9 26.2 27.0
Total Social/Charitable/Social/Nonprofit 29.0 17.7 26.2 25.9 19.4 24.4
Note: Percentages are row percentages within each Industry classification. 
  Fluctuations may be due to small sample sizes.
  Defined as "Read by One Member of the Household".