Sustainable Mail? — A Q&A With Mal Warwick

Ethan Boldt: Did your business immediately practice “corporate responsibility”?

Mal Warwick: The company was founded in 1979, and we were unusual in a lot of ways, but I’d hardly say that we were conducting the business from a socially responsible perspective. Our major claim to being a values-driven business back then was not so much about how I operated the company [for example, Warwick paid 100 percent of an employee’s health care insurance and, later, started ESOP, an employee stock ownership plan], but in the clients we worked for. We were acting out our values by working for nonprofit organizations that were working for progressive social change that we felt was desirable.