USPS Up to Old Tricks in Exigent Filing
The U.S. Postal Service showed a lack of imagination in its exigent rate case filing this week.
The filing, which calls for an average 5.6% hike across the board, looked strikingly similar to the rate cases it used to file under the system that prevailed before the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. That act was supposed to guarantee small annual rate increases based on the rate of inflation.
But even that