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Quebecor World Logistics’ Newsflash #222, repeated here in its entirety, offers a comprehensive review of transporation modes affected.  Included are abbreviated press releases from BNSF, Canadian National, Union Pacific and the U.S. Postal Service.
Transportation Delays Continue; Flooding Mississippi Damages Midwest
June 17, 2008 / Quebecor World Logistics NEWS FLASH – Issue #222
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Commerical printers in Iowa and Wisconsin, including magazine printer Conley in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, are moving equipment and otherwise scrambling to limit the damage cause by severe flooding in the Midwest.  Graphic Arts Online  (June 16, 2008)

Following are Quebecor World Logistics News Flashes about disruptions to Midwest transportation and delivery due to severe weather, as well as the possible solutions to this problem. They are included in their entirety.
Damaging Weather Slows Delivery Throughout Midwest
June 13, 2008
Quebecor World Logistics NEWS FLASH – Issue #221
Damaging weather continues to disrupt transportation throughout the [...]

Following are Quebecor World Logistics News Flashes about disruptions to Midwest deliveries due to severe weather and about the company’s move to a new facility in Memphis, Tenn.  They are included in their entirety.
Flooding In The Midwest Impacts Delivery
June 12, 2008 / Quebecor World Logistics NEWS FLASH – Issue #220
Several regions in the Midwest have [...]

According to a new study released by the email performance management company Return Path, 85 percent of marketers do not customize their first email to new subscribers. While most of the companies collect data beyond the email address of their new subscribers, they still do not use any of it to create a personalized message [...]

Disappointed that publishers have made very little progress posting circulation numbers quickly enough to the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report, some print buyers are considering measures to prod magazines. Monthly magazines are reportedly filing 6 percent faster while weeklies have remained basically the same. Some agencies are considering extra credit and other incentives for [...]

ABC’s Magazine Director’s Advisory Committee will be reviewing the viability of scan-based trading at their next meeting later this month. SBT has been gaining more and more notoriety recently as a possible cost-saving sales and distribution solution. For the better part of the six years it has been since SBT was last seriously considered by [...]

Reed Business Information cut 41 jobs yesterday in a company wide effort to restructure RBI’s publications and business units. Along with the cuts, RBI indicated that more job eliminations are possible and that Reed Elsevier, RBI’s parent company, has plans to sell its b-to-b division. Folio (June 4, 2008)

Quebecor World has agreed to sell its European operations to the Hombergh/De Pundert Group, a Netherlands-based group of investors for a price of over $200 million dollars. CEO of Quebecor World, Jacques Mallette says the sale is “an important step in our restructuring activities that we believe should enable us to exit creditor protection [...]

Canadian Geographic has become the first magazine in North America to print on wheat paper.  The titles annual environmental issue was printed on sheets made from wheat straw. “It’s our message to magazine publishers and pulp-producers alike, that adding agricultural waste to pulp mix can offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut down [...]