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5 unusual facts about mail order


JC Whitney

The ad offered readers a "giant auto parts catalog" if they sent in twenty-five cents and response to the ad was huge.

Necropolitan Press

Throughout its run, this fiction anthology zine received newsstand distribution in addition to catalog sales, the internet — at the time — not being a viable distribution alternative.

Rape Art Productions

Rape Art Productions also acts as a mail order catalogue dedicated to the same subgenres of extreme music.

The J. Peterman Company

The J. Peterman Company is a retail company that sells clothing and fashion accessories primarily through catalogs and the Internet.

W.J. Kent

Founded by Kent's son, J. Harold Kent, Kent's department store ran a successful catalogue business that rivaled Eaton's at its peak.


Amsterdam February 94

Recorded as part of their live concert on the 8 February 1994 at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the album was only available by mail order or to purchase at the group's concerts.

John Peterman

John Peterman is a catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates The J. Peterman Company.

M Network

M Network produced home ports of popular arcade games, including BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump and Lock 'n' Chase (all 1982) as well as original titles such as Tron: Deadly Discs (1982 – based on the Disney movie) and Kool-Aid Man (1983), one of the earliest "promogames", originally available only via mail order by sending in UPC symbols from Kool-Aid containers.

Money back guarantee

The money-back guarantee was also a major tool of early U.S. mail order sales pioneers in the United States such as Richard Sears and Powel Crosley Jr. to win the confidence of consumers.

No Colours Records

No Colours Records is a German mail order and record label from Mügeln specialised in black metal.

See's Candies

The company largely markets its products in its own stores, those of fellow Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Nebraska Furniture Mart, and via mail order catalog.

VideoBrain Family Computer

Additionally, the VideoBrain was mainly sold through mail-order outfits, and only made a brief retail showing at Macy's Department Stores.


see also

13th Star

The limited version (10,000 copies) that was made available by mail order only on 6 September 2007 was a digipak with three panels which contained a bonus "making-of" DVD and a 20-page colour booklet.

A Common Reader

A Common Reader is a discontinued American mail-order book catalog established in 1986 by James Mustich, Jr..

Acoustic Sounds, Inc.

is a mail-order business specializing in the sale of audiophile vinyl LPs, Direct Stream Digital/PCM downloads (SuperHiRez.com), SACDs, DVD-Audios, high-quality CDs and high-end stereo equipment.

Appealing to Venus

It was given away free with the Day Is Gone 12", then sold separately by mail order only. The label notes that the tracks are from the forthcoming album "Treetops High", although this is an error.

Architecture of Buffalo, New York

Chief executive officer Darwin D. Martin met Wright in Chicago and hired him to design a building that would house the large number of clerks needed to operate his mail-order business.

Armin Wirth

In 1993, Wirth opened one of the first online mail order Djshop.

Auriol Smith

At the Northampton Theatre Royal she directed Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, David Mamet's Oleanna and James Robson's Mail Order Bride; while at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough she first directed Love Me Slender.

Bárbara Ruiz-Tagle

She has participated in several TV series and her debut was in the soap opera Corazón de María from TVN, where she played a Russian mail order bride Irina Romanovna, the loved wife of Wladimir (Alfredo Castro).

BarberMcMurry

BarberMcMurry is rooted in the successful mail-order design business established in Knoxville in 1888 by Charles Barber's father, George Franklin Barber (1854–1915), best known for his elaborate Victorian mansions.

Blackwells

Blackwell UK, a chain of bookshops, online retail, mail order and library supply services in the United Kingdom

Blake Anderson

In 2006, Anderson formed the sketch comedy group Mail Order Comedy with Anders Holm, Adam DeVine, and Kyle Newacheck.

Britannia Music Club

Britannia Music Club (1969-2007) was a British mail-order company owned by PolyGram which sponsored the Brit Awards.

Chait

Lawrence G. Chait, an American advertising executive who was a pioneer in mail order sales

Clay Johnson III

Johnson was previously President of Horchow Mail Order and President of Neiman Marcus Mail Order, the Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer of the Dallas Museum of Art, and held positions at Frito-Lay and Wilson Sporting Goods.

Columbia House

The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by the Columbia Records division of CBS, Inc. as an umbrella for its mail-order music clubs, the primary incarnation of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955.

Dancing Madly Sideways

The album was released for free download through numerous MP3 websites, and as a mail-order exclusive physical release from Detroit's website.

Ed Pinsent

Around 1987 he took over Fast Fiction, the market stall, magazine, mail order distributor and news sheet that played a key role in the history of British small press comics.

Electronics Today International

In the Netherlands a Dutch version was published as "electronica top internationaal" by "Radio Rotor", a mail order company for electronic hobby equipment located in Den Dolder (the Netherlands) and Brussels (Belgium), later they moved shop to Amsterdam where they are still operational.

Grainger Engineering Library

He made his riches by launching a small mail-order electrical supplies and components business that eventually grew into a Fortune 500 industrial supply company named after himself, W. W. Grainger.

Harbor Freight Tools

Harbor Freight was founded in 1977 as a mail-order business by Eric Smidt and his father, Allan, in a small North Hollywood building, as Harbor Freight & Salvage Co.

Infogroup

Infogroup collects information on people and businesses worldwide using a variety of sources including Yellow and White Page directories; public records; annual reports, 10-Ks and other Securities and Exchange Commission information; government data; newspapers and publications; Postal Service™ information; RSS news feeds and email alerts; mail order buyers and responders; census information; deed and assessment information; utility transaction data; and others.

Josef Neckermann

Joel's company soon became one of the leading mail order sellers in Germany (along with Quelle or Schöpflin).

K-Line

Like competitor MTH Electric Trains, MDK was a large Lionel dealer, and its mail-order ads appeared in magazines such as Model Railroader in the late 1970s.

Kays

Kays Catalogues, a former UK mail order catalogue, based primarily in Worcester and Leeds, which merged with Littlewoods in 2005

Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride

It was a self-released mail order album that was put out in 2001, compiling various live appearances by lead singer Darren Hayman and the full band.

Knightsbridge University

In 2000, Coleman Nyathi, an official of the South African province of Mpumalanga, was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had lied about his citizenship and that his academic credentials, including his Knightsbridge University doctoral degree in business administration, were "mail order" distance learning degrees from unaccredited institutions.

L.L.Bean Signature

L.L.Bean is a privately held mail-order, online and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

Led Zeppelin – The 1980s, Part One

Ironically, on 25 September, at the same time the rest of the band and its entourage were learning of Bonham's death, thousands of Led Zeppelin fans in Chicago were eagerly obtaining copies of that day's Chicago Tribune containing mail order applications for the upcoming November concerts.

Musictoday

Capshaw's business model is that of bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish, who for years ran mail order presales of their concert tickets to their biggest fans.

Norton Records

Norton's Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse and mail order operation was heavily water damaged by Hurricane Sandy (October 29, 2012).

OFM, Inc

OFM products are sold through a variety of retailers, mail-order catalogs and online dealers including Office Depot, Wayfair, Overstock, and National Business Furniture.

Osmose Productions

Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company.

Paule Ka

In 2010, he designed a capsule collection for La Redoute, the largest French mail order retailer, presented by Agyness Deyn.

Ptooff!

Eight thousand copies were sold on their own Impressario label via mail order through the UK Underground press, such as Oz and International Times, before being picked up and released by Decca Records.

Quill Corp. v. North Dakota

In 2011, Senators Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) introduced a bill that would overrule the decision and compel businesses to collect sales taxes on out-of-state internet, mail order, or telephone sales.

Renee Shepherd

In 1988, the business was purchased by White Flower Farm, a larger mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Connecticut, which eventually closed it.

Rick Howard

In March 2013, Howard and Johnston conducted a video interview with the Active mail order company's YouTube channel, explaining the innovation of Howard signature model shoe that had been manufactured with a cup sole, as opposed to the vulcanized sole that Howard had preferred over the preceding five years.

Sunagor

In 1985, they also moved into press direct mail order, working closely with The Daily Mail as well as The Times, and also made regular appearances on the QVC shopping channel.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Capcom released Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service for the Dreamcast in Japan as an exclusive mail-order release via the online Dreamcast Direct store (later known as Sega Direct) on December 22, 2000.

Trade literature

Kernan, Michael, "Generations of old mail-order catalogs make colorful index to what folks prized and paid for, way back when," Smithsonian vol.

Versandhaus Walz

Versandhaus Walz GmbH is a mail order company located in Bad Waldsee, Upper Swabia.

Waddill Catchings

He was a director of major corporations in diverse fields, including leather, motion pictures (Warner Brothers), radio, television, recorded music (Muzak Holdings), tin cans, dry goods, rubber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles (Studebaker and Chrysler), typewriters, breakfast cereals, lumber, mail-order merchandising, music publishing, and electric power.

William Price Fox

John Updike (--on Fox's Doctor Golf): "Golf in the Kingdom" put me in mind of another curious devotional work, William Price Fox's "Doctor Golf."Doctor Golf, a fanatic even quainter and keener than Shivas Irons, runs a thirty-nine-member golf sanctuary in Arkansas called Eagle-Ho, refers to "young Hagen," advocates caddy flogging, sells by mail order a clanking, cumbersome line of golf paraphernalia, and conducts a large correspondence.

Yves Rocher

A local healer taught him the recipe for a hemostatic ointment based on the lesser celandine flower, and he decided to sell the ointment by mail order with adverts in the magazine Ici Paris.

Zandy's Bride

He sends away for a mail-order bride, a Swedish woman who lives near Minneapolis.

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York

After living in New York City for a few years, Beloff made a film about American stereotyping of Russian women as mail-order brides and sex workers which dominated opinion in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.