Direct Marketing News--The Postal Regulatory Commission issued an order denying the Postal Service's request that remand the planned removal of the exigent rate surcharge in August. The order, at the same time, removed the requirement that USPS gives mailers 45-day notice of the change in rates.
That latter item gives PRC time to react to changes in the assessment of exigency's ultimate price, which was requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision handed down June 5. In its original approval of the exigent rate, PRC put a price of around $2.8 billion on the cost of the Great Recession to the Postal Service. In the request filed last week, USPS fixed the price closer to $4 billion. Read more!
That latter item gives PRC time to react to changes in the assessment of exigency's ultimate price, which was requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision handed down June 5. In its original approval of the exigent rate, PRC put a price of around $2.8 billion on the cost of the Great Recession to the Postal Service. In the request filed last week, USPS fixed the price closer to $4 billion. Read more!
