The U.S. Postal Service has asked the Postal Regulatory Commission to deny a motion to dismiss the USPS’s request to increase postal rates an average of 5.6% next year.
Last week, the Affordable Mail Alliance (AMA), a coalition of large and small mailers, called on the Postal Regulatory Commission to dismiss the USPS’s “exigent” rate hike proposal filed on July 6, arguing that it violates the cost controls Congress put into law in 2006 with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. Click for more http://directmag.com/mail/news/mail-alliance-usps-rate-hike-0727/index.html
In a statement, the USPS said the Alliance made “manifestly misleading comparisons” and advanced a “strained and fatally flawed interpretation” of existing law.”
“Substantively, the motion [to dismiss] is wholly deficient, in both its interpretation of the ‘extraordinary or exceptional circumstances’ prong of the exigency standard, and in its interpretation of the requirement that an exigent increase be reasonable and equitable and necessary to enable the Postal Service, under best practices of honest, efficient, and economical management, to maintain and continue the development of postal services of the kind and quality adapted to the needs of the United States,” said the USPS.
The PRC has until Oct. 4 to rule on whether the rate hike will go forward.
