Publishers often extend their portfolio by offering other media and non-media products such as merchandizing to end-consumers.

They are also offering shipping services for products belonging to third parties. These include shipping using address lists as a one-time or recurring service and distributing publications to households in the distribution area using the market coverage function. This means all the households in a defined distribution area are taken into account for delivery, including those that are not already customers. It is also possible to sell vacation packages, merchandising articles, and other products. The logistics functions can be used to process both the publisher's own products and third party products.