Heymann's Pacific Mail Order System began as a direct-mail advertising company, which later evolved into a mail-order firm for members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving in Vietnam.
The absurdity and mystery continue with "Missing Heels, " in which a mail-order bride arrives in a strange town and starts living at the house of a husband she only sees in her dreams.
Natasha Spivack is the owner of a mail-order bride company successfully sued by a bride who had been continuously beaten by her husband.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
"The drop is due to a consumer preference for non-mail order, not by a diminishing preference for remote shopping, " says Richard Hyman, from retail specialist Verdict Research.
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Moonlighting was a short-term endeavor for Daniel Zawacki, who was a 24-year-old Honeywell salesman in Peoria, Ill. when he decided to build a mail-order lobster business.
Moonlighting was a short-term endeavor for Daniel Zawacki, who was a 24-year-old Honeywell (nyse: HON - news - people ) salesman in Peoria, Ill. when he decided to build a mail-order lobster business.
He is creating satellite companies--a fashion design house, a cable TV network for high schools, restaurants and bars, a mail-order catalog for youth-focused merchandise--which he hopes to build and then sell.
His business has since blossomed to four cherry-themed stores and a brisk cherry-driven mail-order operation.
Within five years he had set up a mail-order firm and was sending goods out with the daily milk round.
He had run a mail-order business and worked for an advertising agency.
He earlier launched a mail-order business using printed catalogs, but that proved very expensive and the catalogs went out of date too quickly.
Paul: Mecox Lane was founded in 1996 as a mail-order business.
Currently if a mail-order company has no physical presence in your state, it doesn't have to hit you with your state's sales tax when it sells you something.
At White Flower Farm, a mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Conn.
She is expanding her business with a gift basket of cake and flowers within New York City, and beyond the city with a mail-order catalog offering dozens of rich desserts.
He made hundreds of different cut-outs, like "Man Riding a Donkey" or "Fat Man in a Bathing Suit" and started a mail-order business selling these caricatures, which provided most of his income later in life.
Brett Nelson Blowup When we looked at stock market darling Seattle FilmWorks two years ago (Jan. 13, 1997), the mail-order film developer was on a tear, posting 25% earnings growth for six years in a row.
Buying into the Hollinger mess is a bold move by the Barclay brothers, who already own other British newspapers, including the Scotsman and the Business, as well as London's Ritz hotel and Littlewoods, a mail-order firm.
Twice before Wal-Mart had tried to get into this game, once with a Netflix-like mail-order DVD offering and another time with an iTunes-like download service.
Under a quirk of American law, mail-order firms are usually exempt from state sales taxes if the buyer is in a different state.
Since credit card companies back then wouldn't service startup mail-order firms, the Crowns leased a tiny storefront as a retail facade.
Xyrem will be distributed from a single mail-order pharmacy run by Express Scripts (nasdaq: ESRX - news - people ).
He says the deal will help Saks build its mail-order business, Folio, into a stable of niche catalogues targeted at the customers of both groups.
Do you e-mail when you know a face-to-face conversation is in order as a way of avoiding conflict?
But, after studying a high-tech corporate-services provider, a French grocery group, a German broking house and an American mail-order company, the authors found little correlation between loyalty and profitability.
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He got the money to furnish Marketplace's fancy new studio in part from a wildly successful mail-order gig.
Later, in a deposition, Andreas denied participating in e-mail exchanges that later emerged when Lorillard got a court order forcing the firm to turn over internal documents.
This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
North Dakota, which found that a state can't impose a sales tax on mail-order transactions when the seller has no physical presence in that state.
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