April 19, 2017

Alliance notes—click the links to read important stories

• Promo Marketing: USPS Rolls Out Digital Mailbox Preview Feature Nationwide
• Billings Gazette: ‘Mail goes by us like 2 times before it gets here’: Rural Montana waits for Postal Service reform
• Forbes: Understanding Basic USPS Requirements For Direct Mail
• Entrepreneur: How the Seasons Affect Your Direct Mail Campaigns
• Dead Tree Edition: Why the Flats Sequencing System Should Be Scrapped
• Reuters: Royal Mail to close defined benefit pension scheme
• Publishing Executive: Postal Rate Fight Continues as Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax”
• Technically Baltimore: Pitch the US Postal Service in Baltimore next month
• Fortune: Booming Online Retail Deliveries Mean More Dog Attacks on Postal Workers
• Mobile Marketing Watch: Accenture: Post and Parcel Organizations Have Opportunities to Turn Digital Investments into Financial Benefits
• PMNTS: Post And Parcel Missing Out On Digitization, Says Accenture
• Business Insider: Logistics providers shift focus to small retailers
• MultiChannel Merchant: 4 Ways to Take Advantage of the Booming Ecommerce Market
• Business Insider: eBay guarantees fast and free shipping
• USPS: When You Ship with Us, Your Business Becomes Our Business. ™
• eCommerce Bytes: Could Ads on Packages Subsidize Shipping Costs?
• Computer World: What Sears’ recent troubles could tell us about Amazon’s future
• Business to Community: The Blueprint for e-Commerce in 2017
• eCommerce Bytes: New Shipping Options for Jet.com Sellers
• The NonProfit Times: 4 Steps To “Rev” Your Marketing
• The NonProfit Times: 30 Ways to Not Leave Your Donor
• The NonProfit Times: Fundraising Agencies Russ Reid and Grizzard Being Merged
• Fast Company: Philanthropies Need A Better Way To Measure If Their Fundraising Is Successful
• Politico: Chaffetz won’t run for reelection in 2018