(To download a printer-friendly PDF of this article, please CLICK HERE.) The Postal Service has renewed its request to the independent Postal Regulatory Commission for an exigent rate case. By raising prices on market-dominant products by an average of 5.9 percent, including increasing the...
I am honored to present Consumer Action’s Award for Consumer Excellence to Ruth Y. Goldway, Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission. In this role, she is responsible for supervising the world’s largest post, and the second largest employer in the United States. She...
UPU DOHA CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER The Doha Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) is set to convene in Qatar in late September. The full Congress, with representatives from 192 member countries, meets every four years. Among the most significant items to be voted...
Presentation to the Postal Regulatory Commission Good morning. Can the Postal Service’s consumers of monopoly products and services be confident they are getting what they pay for? Or are they being required to pay more than their fair share, in terms of dollars...
Federal decisionmakers are feeling considerable pressure to take action to rescue the Postal Service from its desperate financial situation. But decades of Congressional interference has been a major reason the Service’s business plan is so broken, and the danger persists that, despite...