Industry Indicator
Here you will find up-to-date industry statistics, letting you in on the state of the industry a full month earlier than our print publication.
Decent Numbers for April
by David Hachmeister
This month (April) is a classic example how important the seasonality component is. Although stamp sales fell 9 percent from March to April, because of the seasonal adjustment, stamp sales showed a 3 percent increase from the average of the two previous Aprils. Historically, March is a very strong month and April not so much.
In April, other products declined more than 8 percent from March but seasonally adjusted were down just 2 percent. As we said, things definitely started to slow down early in 2008.
In light of economic conditions, these numbers are very good!
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