Alliance notes–click the link to read the story–June 1, 2016

• WAVY: First woman appointed as Postmaster of Norfolk
• Recode: Jeff Bezos insists Amazon isn’t trying to kill UPS
• Linn’s Stamp News: April financial results better than U.S. Postal Service predicted
• Reuters: S. consumer spending increase strongest in over six years
• Daily Mail: Send your stuff to Mars! SpaceX will offer first postal service to the red planet in 2018, and prices start at £42 million
• BidnessEtc: USPS Capacity Limitations Restrain Amazon To Move Away from UPS, FedEx: Bernstein
• Linn’s Stamp News: USA Star coil strips for nonprofit mail now available from Postal Service
• Target Marketing: How to Win With Political Direct Mail
• TMR Direct: Nonprofit Mailings: Stories Still Resonate
• Government Executive: Powerful House Republicans Endorse Major Funding Increase for USPS Regulator
• Government Executive: USPS Supervisors Are Doing Work Reserved for Unionized Employees, Costing Agency Millions
• Government Executive: House to Unveil Smaller-Scale Postal Reform Proposal ‘Soon’
• Direct Marketing News: Mailers Want a Quick-Fix Reform Bill, But Will USPS Go Along?

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