Alliance notes–May 5, 2015

• USPS Link: Tech Transfer
• The NonProfit Times: Easter Seals Is Now Easterseals In National Rebranding
• BBC News: Denmark scraps first-class postal deliveries
• Direct Marketing News: ‘New Yorker’ gets a lot of things wrong about the USPS
• Direct Marketing News: The Lawyer, the Post Office, and the Union Man
• The Stranger: Some Thoughts Around Why Postage Stamps Exist
• Townhall: Total Disaster: USPS Survey Shows That The Entire Workforce Is Abjectly Miserable
• Postal Regulatory Commission: PRC Examines USPS 2015 Performance Goals and 2016 Performance Plan: Report offers recommendations for meeting goals in the future
• Postal Regulatory Commission: PRC Seeks Public Comment on Report to the President and Congress: PRC must make recommendations for any legislation or other measures necessary to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of the postal laws of the United States
• Chicago Tribune: Cheaper stamps a real rarity
• Vox: Postal service isn’t a particularly lucrative business. That’s why Finland’s is going to mow lawns too.
• com: UPS takes back some last mile deliveries from USPS as earnings rise
• The Dallas Morning News: 4 ways the U.S. Postal Service thinks it could redefine its diminishing role in your life
• The New Yorker: The Nineteenth-Century Idea that Could Keep the U.S. Postal Service Alive
• PR Newswire: Ireland’s National Postal Service Selects Fleetmatics To Improve Operational Efficiency
• NPR: ‘Neither Snow Nor Rain’ Celebrates History Of U.S. Postal Service