Has the Postal Service ever made a publisher correct previously published forms — or print omitted ones?
Yes. A magazine competitor of a publisher I worked for skipped printing its Statements several times, and each time, after our publisher complained to the Postal Service, the competitor was compelled to run its Statements. For three years beginning in 1963, DC stopped publishing the actual sales figures in most of its comics. In 1965, after it had printed these “blank” Statements in its titles, DC returned to press several months later with forms that did include numbers. It’s unclear whether DC was made to run the corrections, or whether it did it on its own. It’s highly unlikely that DC intended to avoid printing the numbers — remember, it was very early in the period where publishers were obligated to print data — and so it may have been correcting the oversight. On the other hand, given the royal pain that setting up and running the forms represented, it’s not illogical to imagine some outside influence in getting them run again.
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