Alliance Notes – August 28, 2019

• August 14 – Streets Blog NYC – UNACCOUNTABLE! The United States Postal Service is a Rogue Company Delivering Road Violence 
• August 15 – Business Insider – The US Postal Service’s volumes tanked for the first time in nearly a decade — here’s why insiders say FedEx and Amazon are to blame 
• August 15 – The Verge – UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks 
• August 15 – Commercial Appeal – Memphis, get ready to meet FedEx delivery robot Roxo. It’s hitting the streets soon 
• August 15 – The Economist – FedEx’s visionary founder is a disrupter at risk of disruption 

• August 16 – The Agitator – Direct Mail Isn’t Dead, But Volume As A Strategy Is. 
• August 19 – Publishing Executive – 2020 Print Forecast: The Quad-LSC Merger Is Off, but Competition Might Still Suffer 
• August 19 – Air Cargo World – Postal companies risk getting cut out of crucial e-commerce business 
• August 19 – Daily Breeze – Commercial printer LSC Communications to shutter South Bay plant with loss of 228 jobs 
• August 21 – Printing Impressions – United Business Mail Acquires Commingle Operations from LSC for $11.25M 

• August 21 – The Rio Times – Brazil’s Government Set to Announce Privatization of Postal Service “Correios” 
• August 22 – The NonProfit Times – ADRFCO Merges Into Nonprofit Alliance 
• August 23 – CNBC – Trump calls on UPS, FedEx and Amazon to ‘search for & refuse’ fentanyl deliveries from China 
• August 23 – Reuters – Answering Trump, UPS, FedEx and USPS say they already fight illegal drug shipments 
• August 23 – The Washington Post – The flow of fentanyl: In the mail, over the border 

• August 26 – The Agitator – Missing Out: Smaller Organizations and Direct Mail 
• August 26 – Channel Futures – USPS Leaving International Mail Union Set to Disrupt U.S. Elections 
• August 27 – The NonProfit Times – ANA Relaunches Its Nonprofit Federation