MPA’s Statement Regarding the U.S. Senate Passage of the 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012
The Senate vote is a significant first step in an orderly transition to a streamlined and financially viable Postal Service that will be capable of serving the nation for years to come...Read More

Postal Reform Legislation Makes Fitful Progress in Senate
S. 1789, the bi-partisan postal reform bill crafted and supported by Senators Susan Collins, Tom Carper, Joe Lieberman, and Scott Brown, and approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in November, 2011, almost made it to the Senate floor in late March...Read More

Administration Calls for Privacy Legislation
While privacy legislation has been a back burner issue in Congress so far this year, the Obama Administration has significantly ramped up its level of activity in the privacy arena...Read More

Big Changes Likely in EU Data Privacy Laws
The Department of Commerce is not the only entity paying close attention to EU activities with respect to privacy protection. MPA and other affected industries are engaged in a careful review of the proposed European Commission regulation...Read More

Danish Government Withdraws Proposed VAT Change for Magazines after Meeting with President Obama
In a significant international victory for magazine publishers, MPA, working in conjunction with officials at the highest levels of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Danish Embassy, successfully thwarted an effort in the Danish Parliament to impose a VAT tax and surcharge on magazines sent to Denmark from outside the European Union...Read More

Connecticut Contemplates Troubling Expansion of Free Trial Law; Louisiana & Tennessee Consider Changes Too
Despite already having a law regulating free trials, in mid-February Connecticut Senate President Donald Williams made legislation expanding the current law a Senate Democrat caucus priority...Read More

ICANN gTLD Program Continues to Move Ahead; First Round Application Window Now Closed
The start of April brought with it the close of the application window in the first round of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) process for approving new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD). Since the opening of the window for new gTLDs in January, ICANN, which oversees the global domain name system, has received applications for new gTLDs from nearly 900 entities...Read More