Editor’s Take: Lobbying

Warding Off Privacy Bills

As privacy relates to catalogers, it’s coming from the opposite direction. Whereas postal reform would theoretically make the U.S. Postal Service function more efficiently — thereby presumably keeping future postal rate increases in check — a number of privacy bills over the years have threatened to prevent catalogers from freely mailing to prospects without having to gain consumers’ permission first. Like postal reform, for the most part, those bills have gone nowhere.