The U.S. Postal Service has filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the next step in its appeal of the Postal Regulatory Commission’s order denying the USPS’s exigent price request.
In its brief, the postal service is arguing that PRC misread the statute governing exigency and that it acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner by establishing new requirements that were not shared with or explained to the postal service.
In late September, the Commission struck down the USPS’s rate request which would have raised rates an average of 5.6%, well above the rate of inflation to which postal rate hikes were pegged under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006.
The USPS soon appealed this decision.
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“The ability to raise prices above the rate of inflation is a safety valve included in the law to insure that the postal service is financially viable and can continue to provide universal mail delivery service to all Americans,” said the USPS, in a statement. “The PRC erred by rendering the safety valve ineffective and passing the buck back to Congress,”
