Former USPS CFO Michael Riley submitted testimony to PRC on behalf of NALC earlier this month. Former USPS Chief Financial Officer: Eliminating Saturday Delivery Is Not Necessary. Now USPS is requesting that Riley produced documents, analyses, data to support his assertions. Here is what USPS is requesting: Pursuant to rules 25 and 26 of the […]
“The Affordable Mail Alliance – a growing coalition of nearly 1,000 non-profits, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, major trade associations, consumer groups, and citizens representing the vast majority of the mail sent in the United States – submitted further comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission yesterday. The comments focused on last week’s hearings at the […]
The following is a letter submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission by the Envelope Manufacturers Association opposing the proposed rate increase: Re: Docket No. R2010-4, Rate Adjustment Request Due to Extraordinary or Exceptional Circumstances August 12, 2010 The purpose of this letter is to offer our comments on the above-mentioned request that is now before […]
The Newspaper Association of America (“NAA”)1 hereby submits these comments on the Postal Service’s unprecedented request under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (“PAEA”) for permission to impose rate increases that substantially exceed inflation. For the reasons stated herein,NAA: • Opposes the Postal Service’s proposed exigent rate increases because the statutory requirement of […]
As many readers may recall, Frank Neri, is the former district manager for the USPS Philadelphia district. He was replaced in 2008 by Jim Gallagher, a veteran USPS manager,after news reports of excessive mail backlogs. Now Neri is now at USPS Headquarters as Manager, Mail Processing Operations. In Neri’s testimony to PRC he reportedly said: […]
The Postal Regulatory Commission issued the following : ORDER TAKING MOTION TO DISMISS UNDER ADVISEMENT (Issued August 4, 2010) On July 26, 2010, the Affordable Mail Alliance filed a motion to dismiss the Postal Service’s proposed rate adjustment.1 Answers to the Motion were filed on August 2,2010, by the Postal Service and several other companies […]
Urges Regulator to Decline ‘Invitation to Go Through the Looking Glass’ WASHINGTON — Saying the Affordable Mail Alliance made “manifestly misleading comparisons” and advanced a “strained and fatally flawed interpretation” of existing law, the U.S. Postal Service today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to deny an alliance request to dismiss the Postal Service’s current […]
POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting, Public Invited TIME AND DATE: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 11 a.m. PLACE: Commission Hearing Room, 901 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20268-0001. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED IN PUBLIC SESSION: 1. Review of postal-related congressional activity. 2. Report on international activities. 3. Review of active cases. […]
Eliminating Saturday Delivery Would Hurt USPS In the Long-Run Excerpts from testimony filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission by former USPS Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice-President Michael J. Riley. Riley testified on behalf of the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO: From August 1993 to July 1998, I held the position of Chief Financial […]
The Postal Regulatory Commision requested that USPS provide the following: For each of the city carrier employee types indicated in Attachment 1 of USPS-T-7, please provide the distribution of total city carrier work years, indicated in the third column of the first table, by day of the week, for FY 2009. Here are the charts: […]