USPS Rate Requests Fail a Second Time, Putting Planned Effective Date in Jeopardy

Not satisfied with alterations made to a rate change request submitted earlier this month, the Postal Regulatory Commission has once again returned the request to the U.S. Postal Service for further accounting.

The PRC contended in yesterday's order that USPS failed to explain why it used non-FSS volumes as a proxy for determining adjustments for certain FSS classes. The Postal Service was allowed to do this, but only if it provided an adequate explanation of why the use of available Q4 data on FSS volume was not possible, which it did not, according to the PRC....