Our office — a private organization — will be closed tomorrow because federal offices are closed. Our policy is to follow the feds. Of course, this ‘national day of mourning’ will cost millions and millions in lost productivity in the region.
I’m certainly not staying home to mourn. I’m staying home because there will be road closures and traffic tie-ups and general messiness that I’d rather avoid.
I expect to have a peaceful day, because:
The Direct Marketing Association called on its members yesterday to refrain from making marketing calls and sending commercial e-mails to consumers tomorrow, which has been designated a national day of mourning for the late president.
“We are calling on marketers to consider the mood of the country on this day of national mourning,” said H. Robert Wientzen, president and chief executive of the association. “. . .Businesses should keep in mind the thoughts of consumers and the reputation of the industry.”
If members insist on making calls, he said, they should “do so with the utmost caution.”
Wow! Reagan has accomplished something in death that other presidents couldn’t manage — or wouldn’t manage — to do in life.
