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When I started in online bookselling, I listed everything in my inventory for sale everywhere my listing marketplaces sold. Sometimes it was not very profitable to sell a book and

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ship it internationally, but I wanted to make the books I was selling available all over the world. I guess I really thought of it as part of the "service" I offered.

In the past

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ouple years, the options and costs of shipping books everywhere have changed drastically. I am beginning to wonder what the USPS definition of "service" really is, probably somethi

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ng similar to what we all think when we hear, "Internal Revenue Service." Both are gaining a negative connotation when it comes to the word "service."

All of the online booksellin

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

discussion boards I have visited are buzzing with discussion about how the postal changes have affected the online bookselling business. Since there is no longer an option for eco

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

nomy international mail, most booksellers have either opted to completely eliminate international sales or limited it to only the smallest books which will fit in the flat rate inte

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

national priority mailers. Even sellers that use online postage services which prepare all the USPS postal forms for them are questioning whether or not international sales are wor

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

thwhile.

Personally, I have become much more selective about which books I will even offer for expedited delivery within the U.S., and have eliminated all but the smallest books fo

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

sale internationally. It is a shame the USPS has eliminated international economy mail, it was a great way to help promote reading through the low cost acquisition of books that m

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ay not otherwise even be available in parts of the world. Does this come as any real surprise? Not really, our postal system, like any other business, is always looking for ways t

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

cut costs and increase profits, and service is what always suffers.

When I go in my post office there is typically a line of at least twenty people and while there are positions f

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

or six postal clerks, there are rarely more than three working and the pace they work at hardly constitutes working. Just getting a parking space at my post office is a challenge b

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

cause the people standing in line inside the post office have occupied all of the parking spaces available. This leads to lines of cars waiting in the street in front of the post o

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ffice waiting for other customers to get served and leave. Service is lacking and the post office wants to build a new facility in my home town, but I cannot see how they could jus

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ify one when they are not making use of the capacity they have by putting enough clerks in positions to help customers. Does this get any better when the USPS raises their rates?

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

No, it only gets progressively worse.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the post office and I think the value of their "service" is second to none, but I would like to see efficienc

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

gains that do not require more rate increases and/or delivery options eliminated. My bookselling business, like thousands of others across the country, depends on the USPS. I hav

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

e found ways to avoid having to stand in line to ship my books, but I still need to park in order to carry my packages into the post office. If one of the other delivery systems we

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

e to make a move and offer affordable international delivery options, e.g., UPS, DHL, or FedEx, the financial impact to the USPS would be staggering. I doubt this is going to happe

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

n because like all other business decisions nothing is based on service, it is all based on the bottom line and double-digit shareholder return expectations will not allow "service.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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It has always been a mystery to me why certain chief executive officers do such a poor job hiring key executives for their management teams. I submit that one reason is because chief executive officers spend company money and the stockholders' equity in the hiring process. What if the chief executive officers had to hire their key people with money out of their own pocket? You better believe their judgment and discretion would improve in a hurry.

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