Editor’s Take: Lobbying

When I think of lobbying for key catalog legislative issues — namely, postal reform and privacy — that character often creeps into my mind.

Postal is perhaps the more pressing of the two concerns for catalogers. Since the first postal reform bill was introduced more than a decade ago, the Direct Marketing Association, the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom) and other groups have spent thousands of dollars in member dues lobbying on the Hill. But each session of Congress becomes a postal “Groundhog Day,” as reform keeps petering out.