Alliance notes–February 3, 2016

• USPS: Irresistible Mail Award.
• Bipartisan Policy Center: USPS: The Path to Profitability.
• PRC: Chairman’s Information Request No. 7.
• MailSmart Logistics: In Praise of the U.S. Postal Service.
• Jeff Bezos: Amazon testing drones in Canada, UK, and Denmark.
• San Francisco Chronicle: The Postal Service’s failing finances need answers, not delays.
• The Washington Post: Proposed U.S. Postal Service ‘reform’ is actually a failure of democratic governance.
• USPSOIG: On price changes, certainty rules.
• Yahoo! Finance: Consumer Confidence Ignores Financial Market Volatility in January.
• Federal News Radio: Postal Service IG stepping down.
• The Washington Post: Postal reform consensus develops; 5-day delivery dead.
• The Washington Post: Postal reform is not ‘moribund.’
• DM News: Exigent Rate Is Likely to Be Baked Into New Postal Reform.
• DM News: Survey: Retailers Will Stick With Direct Mail in 2016.
• DM News: Amazon’s Shipping Costs Rose 37% in Fourth Quarter 2015.
• DM News: Cruz, the Direct Mail Disrupter.
• The Washington Post: Michael J. Shinay.
• PrintWeek: Public sees direct mail in fonder light, survey finds.