PRC POSTAL RATE MESS: How’d This Slip Under the Radar Screen?

And as Anita Pursley, vice president of printer Quebecor World Logistics Postal Affairs, points out, back in 1990, the USPS separated letters and flats in Standard Mail (Third Class at the time). “The PRC commended this move and agreed to mitigate the rate shock on flat mailers over time,” she says. “In other words, rather than have rates that truly reflected the cost differential, it was agreed these costs would be phased in over time. The PRC, realizing that this may be the last rate case under current rules, likely decided to assign full costs to flats. Going forward, under a rate cap system, rates will more accurately reflect costs.”