The costs of printing and shipping paper and cardboard are rising.
Beginning in 2007, regulators allowed companies to save shipping and paper costs by sending only a one-page form to shareholders, while referring them to proxy statements and annual 10-K reports online.
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That is reflected in share prices: over the past year, the worst performing sectors, from the bottom up, have been securities firms, shipping, construction, paper, steel, mining, warehousing, airlines, oil companies and banks.
One of the ironies of Kirtsaeng is that it involves shipping copyrighted works across an ocean in paper form, an approach more typical of the last century than the present one.
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The academic paper is still far away from producing a shipping device, although a Microsoft doctoral fellowship's partial contribution to funding the study indicates one direction the technology might go.
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Email has decreased the mailing of paper letters, but online purchases have increased package shipping, forcing the Postal Service to adjust to customers' new habits.
On the other hand, as the Treasury paper lays out, non-doms, who include shipping tycoons and City high-fliers, pack an economic punch much weightier than their number, currently around 115, 000.
Patricia is one of three siblings who share a fortune that comes from forestry and paper products as well as stakes in telecom, banking and shipping firms.
Bernardo is one of three siblings who share a fortune that comes from forestry and paper products as well as stakes in telecom, banking and shipping firms.
Eliodoro Matte is one of three siblings who share a fortune that comes from forestry and paper products as well as stakes in telecom, banking and shipping firms.
Documents quoted by the paper are said to show that Mr Abbas bought the vessel from its former owners, a Lebanese shipping company, on 31 August last year.
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