Washington, DC – Today the Postal Regulatory Commission issued a request for comments on proposed rules to streamline the procedures for considering Postal Service proposals to make nationwide, or substantially nationwide, changes in the nature of postal services (N-Cases), 39 U.S.C. § 3661. If adopted, the proposed rules would set a 90-day time limit for the Commission to issue an Advisory Opinion, while still providing participants the opportunity to develop an adequate record on relevant issues.
“The Commission is continuing to adjust its procedures to improve the efficiency of its regulatory framework,” said Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway. “Due to changes in technology, the Postal Service must respond to rapid changes in mail patterns. These proposed procedural rules are intended to ensure that the Commission’s analyses of the Postal Service’s plans in Nature of Service changes are thoroughly reviewed and our recommendations are both helpful and timely.”
The proposed rules are available on the Commission’s website, Docket No. RM2012-4 and will be published shortly in the Federal Register. Initial comments are due 45 days, and reply comments are due 75 days after publication of the notice in the Federal Register.
No designs, pictures or anything else on the bottom of letters front and back. This will give a clear area to print barcodes and ID tags.
You guys think to small. The whole Congress has to go! Those people are not there for us. It is all about them, and getting reelected. We need term limits, require them to be under the same health care as all other government employees and no retirement. I do not mind paying you after being elected, but nothing after they are out of office. All of them are already millionaires, so why should they get more from the public coffers. It is a public service, not a personal money grab!
Too many problems on this crap institution, just sell it, all problems solved!
Scott, you make many excellent points. I have one to add. How about a “bill-back” system whereby we can bill the bulk mailers any discount they’ve been granted for mailing a sequenced coverage that shows up and is not in sequence? So many times sequenced coverages show up in reverse order or simply not in order at all. They still have the ECWRSS endorsement and the mailer gets the discount for having it in order even though we now have to spend our own man hours sorting it for delivery. It is absolutely criminal that we don’t have a tool for recinding the discount when criteria is not met.
Where are the Democrats in helping the post office and how come our president hasn’t come out and said what I know Hillary Clinton would of said and that the post office will not be privatized and Congress we need you to act and help get the post office on track so we don’t have to hear continually you are losing billions of dollars. The republican party is a disgrace and they have almost eliminated the middle class and have made china the supreme superpower and eventually russia and china will eliminate the united states due to corporate america exspecially wal-mart oh I mean china-mart. It’s sad to say we are no longer number one.
Stop marriage mail, especially the detached card type. Not only are they a pain in the ass, with loose pieces falling out and blowing all over the place on windy days, the USPS in its infinite wisdom doesn’t charge enough to make a profit on them because of the overtime it takes to get the shit out that nobody even looks at. No normal business with the brain of a sparrow would keep a customer that was making it lose money, but we’re not dealing with the sharpest knives in the corporate drawer. Revenue must exceed costs, or did somebody forget to tell the postal geniuses that? I’ve heard that the Service loses over 13 million a year on marriage mail, and that was several years ago. It’s probably a lot more now.
It’s kind of ironic that they have to used the whole ponderous bureaucratic procedure of publishing Federal Register proposed rule for notice and comment and then the final rule in order to be able to issue an opinion without going through that process.
Remove the PMG Donahooo. He isn’t trying to save the Post Office, but Privatize! CCA carriers are going to have a high turnover and save overtime, but some have already quit. What kind of security of the mail do we have with employees that may not be career? At my office they give them an entire route (that hasn’t had a 3999 in years) and a hour and a half off another route and expect the CCA to Run, skip breaks, lunch, comfort stops, etc and drive safely and not get injured and be done by 1800. WTF?!Get rid of Donahooo and Issa will go away as well.
If you’re a republican who thinks Privatization will work, then you are a Big Corporate Repub. It’s either big govt or big corporation. Facism is the merge of Government with Corporation. The USPS is here not to profit, but to serve the American People. Stop listening to Fox and Friends, Limbaugh, Oreilly, etc and fact check your self.
No more string or rubber bands on bulk mail. The 21st Century has arrived ,time to start moving the mail,not delaying,destroying,or cause overtime and lost productivity.
Start advertising on trucks,5 day delivery in small towns,not big citys.
Cut back on staff at the Plaza.