Readers discuss new industry trade group and slim jims

However, challenges to the future are not limited to postal rates and technical issues. Consider consumer safety and privacy, do-not-mail initiatives, environmental and green concerns, application of sales taxes, Internet access and import regulations. A focused, cataloger-only association engaged on issues of economic, regulatory or public concern can partner or oppose as necessary with only one objective: what is best for catalogers.
Hamilton Davison
Executive Director
American Catalog Mailers Association
Washington, D.C.