Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers notes – June 10, 2015

• Megan Brennan’s mission to save the USPS
• USPS cannot keep emergency price hike forever, court rules
• USPS can’t increase rates forever
• USPS court victory will cost mailers billions
• Exigency to cost mailers at least $1.2 billion more
• USPS deploying $250 million mobile devices primarily  for package delivery
• Mail processing plants’ closure strains businesses
• USPS slams Inspector General’s banking paper
• Postage increases contribute to publications’ closure
• Postage a tipping point in digital strategy to end periodicals
• Alliance Board tours St. Jude Children’s Research Center
• Senate holds roundtable on rural Postal Service
• Postal financial services could build on what it does
• USPS halts plant closures until 2016
• 2015 plant closings suspended
• Major mailer PennySaver shuts down
• Inspector General issues new white paper on postal banking opportunities
• Postal union decries USPS meeting with its customers

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