Press Release No. 01-10

For Immediate Release

Contact: Robert E. McLean

Release No. 01-10

703-418-0390

October 18, 2001

bmclean@mailers.org

Mailers Council
SPOKESPERSON AVAILABLE

WASHINGTON, October 18—Robert E. McLean, executive director of the Mailers Council, the nation’s largest coalition of mailers, is available for comment concerning the safety of the mail, and commercial mailers’ response to recent incidents of anthrax in the mail. McLean can be reached at 703-979-6130. For more background information, visit the Council's website (www.mailers.org).

Note to News Media

The Mailers Council is a coalition of 40 corporations, nonprofit organizations and major mailing associations. Council members represent for-profit and nonprofit mailers that use the United States Postal Service to deliver correspondence, publications, parcels, greeting cards and payments. Collectively the Council accounts for as much as 70 percent of the nation's mail volume.

Executive Director Bob McLean has more than 15 years experience in the postal community: five years as the Mailers Council’s executive director, eight years as legislative counsel for the National Association of Postal Supervisors, and more than two years with the United States Postal Service’s government relations department.

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