Readying for Another Postal Rate Increase

The case the Postal Service has set before the PRC is a comprehensive and complicated one. There are, in fact, several areas being contested in this case, including issues pertaining to the overall amount of new revenue the Postal Service is seeking, automation-related cost savings for which the USPS has failed to fully account, cost data sorely lacking to justify the USPS' proposed increase in the Standard A parcel surcharge and others.