Presidents Commission on the United States Postal Service

By United States Department of the Treasury

Book Id: WPLBN0000655109
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Presidents Commission on the United States Postal Service
Author:	United States Department of the Treasury
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Economics., United States. Department of the Treasury--Appropriations and Expenditures.
Collections:	Government Library Collection, U.S. Department of the Treasury Collection
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Publisher:	United States Department of the Treasury


Citation APA MLA Chicago States Department Of The Treasury, B. U. (n.d.). Presidents Commission on the United States Postal Service. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Executive Summary: Valpak is a large Postal Service customer, reliant on the Postal Service to perform ably its core mission and function-mail delivery. Valpak believes that the Postal Service?s fundamental problem to date has been its failure to achieve sustained productivity gains consistent with those of the private sector, as illustrated by Table 1, resulting in too-frequent rate cases and too-high rate increases. The solution lies in controlling and reducing the Postal Service?s costs, not changing the rate-making mechanism administered by the Postal Rate Commission, which actually works quite well. Meaningful increases in Postal Service productivity, achievable through reducing the labor force using existing technology, would lead to fewer rate cases and more reasonable rate increases. Valpak recommends closing/consolidating unnecessary postal facilities-by depoliticizing the issue and following the GAO?s lead.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I. Separating Root Causes from Symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A. Productivity Stagnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 B. Recommendations to Improve Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 II. The Universal Service Obligation Must Be Allowed to Evolve and Adapt to a Changing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A. Retail Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 B. Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 (I) Number of delivery points served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 (ii) Quality of delivery services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 (iii) Delivery frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 C. Mail Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 III. Reduce the Scope of the Monopoly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 IV. Increase the Debt Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 V. Focus on Delivery of Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17