Table A3-28
Standard Mail Pieces from Department Stores
Response to Mail Piece by Familiarity With Organization
(Percentage of Pieces)
Postal Fiscal Years 1987, 2008 and 2009
(Diary Data)
BL_F _NAME_ _LABEL_ C1Y1 C1Y2 C2Y1 C2Y2 C3Y1 C3Y2 C4Y1 C4Y2
Previous customer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 71.20648 71.70394 7.992357 8.38261 73.47384 76.93485 25.75466 28.13493
Organization known PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 30.23972 40.73985 6.277345 4.912899 26.01598 20.43321 8.006404 2.860307
Organization unknown PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 27.93494 59.56836 2.976747 4.16101 23.63364 14.7647 7.545967 2.70224
Don't know/No answer PCT_ROW Percent of Row Frequency 19.83005 25.32488 2.274658 2.056328 17.07925 25.42493 3.897155 7.684575
 
 
Familiarity Read Immediately Set Aside Found Useful Will Respond  
 
1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009 1987 2008 2009  
Previous customer 52.4 71.2 71.7 11.2 8.0 8.4 64.4 73.5 76.9 17.6 25.8 28.1  
Organization known 25.5 30.2 40.7 6.4 6.3 4.9 23.4 26.0 20.4 6.0 8.0 2.9  
Organization unknown 24.4 27.9 59.6 4.5 3.0 4.2 17.5 23.6 14.8 7.1 7.5 2.7  
NOTE: Percentages represent row percentages within each familiarity category;
these do not sum to 100 due to the inclusion of multiple questions in this table.