The Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association has hired Ben Cooper to serve as its first paid lobbyist to represent its membership’s positions on Capitol Hill.
Pertinent issues include HR 22, a bill that would ease the U.S. Postal Service’s payment terms for pre-funding the healthcare obligations of former employees and the USPS’s possible reduction of deliveries to five days a week.
Among the objectives for the new lobbying effort is to organize a legislative steering committee within the membership and charge them with the responsibility to help develop legislative position, according to the MFSA
Cooper founded and chaired the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service which helped organize the mailing industry to pass the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act in 2006.
He is currently a partner at Washington DC lobbying firm Williams and Jensen.
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