Carlin, Paul

LC control no.	n 84205983
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Carlin, Paul *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1931-08-25
Death date	2018-04-25
Place of birth	San Diego (Calif.)
Place of death	Arlington (Va.)
Field of activity	Postal service Industrial management Mail sorting Letter services
Affiliation	United States Postal Service Mail2000
Profession or occupation	Postmasters general Businesspeople
Found in	U.S. Cong. House. Com. on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcom. on Postal Operations and Services. Decision of Board of Governors to replace Postmaster General, 1986: p. 1 (resignation of Paul Carlin as Postmaster General) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 17, 2018 (Paul N. Carlin, a Postal Service veteran who unsuccessfully challenged his firing as postmaster general but rebounded by starting two lucrative businesses that focused on rapid sorting of mass mail, died April 25 [2018] in Arlington; he was 86; Mr. Carlin, an expert in business administration, became President Richard M. Nixon's liaison with Congress on postal matters in 1969 and was a key player in the old Post Office Department's shift in 1971 from a federal agency to the semiautonomous U.S. Postal Service; later became administrator in charge of the service's largest region, based in Chicago, before being named postmaster general in January 1985; a year later, he was fired; with partners, Mr. Carlin later went into businesses involved in mass mailings; in 2001, the United Parcel Service purchased his company Mail2000; Paul Nestor Carlin was born in San Diego on Aug. 25, 1931; studied advanced management at Harvard Business School; before joining the Postal Service, he worked in Washington as a specialist in federal relations for the National Association of Counties, the National School Boards Association and the National Audio-Visual Association)