Important news stories and reports – October 5, 2016

• Quad/Graphics: Fall 2016 USPS Outlook
• Government Accountability Office: INTERNATIONAL MAIL: Information on Designated Postal Operators and Universal Service in Selected Countries
• The Wall Street Journal: Amazon’s Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx
• Clean Technica: New USPS Mail Trucks May Use Hybrid Or Electric Powertrains
• Federal News Radio: Postal service health benefits and the FEHBP
• Bloomberg: FedEx Names Bronczek Future COO in Succession Planning Hint
• USPSOIG: Helping Cities Get Smarter
• Linn’s Stamp News: Kane to retire in January as director of National Postal Museum
• Publishing Executive: 2017 Print Forecast: Tiny Price Hikes With a Chance of Disruption
• The Nonprofit Times: Direct Mail Really Is Not Dead
• Auto Blog: Get ready for a new USPS mail truck, maybe from a company you don’t know
• Autoweek: And the next postal delivery truck will be …
• NBC24: USPS reminding deployed service members of absentee balloting dates
• Linn’s Stamp News: USPS Inspector General reports massive increases in delayed mail
• USPS: Statement on OIG report on mail processing and transportation operational changes
• Min: Consumer Reports Renews Its Brand Promise in a High-Tech Era
• Consumer Reports: We Put Ourselves to the Test
• USA Today: Consumer Reports undergoes makeover
• Robotics Tomorrow: The future is here: how autonomous drones will revolutionize postal sorting
• Irish Examiner: An Post under threat as finances worsen