A Postal Rate Case Update

What About Postal Reform?

I am sure many of you are also asking, “why is this happening?” After all, with our recent victory on postal reform legislation, it seemed that the nightmares of arbitrary, unexpected, and unjustifiable postal rate increases would be behind us.

Unfortunately, as we have stressed since December when the President signed the new postal reform law, the postal rate case (filed on May 3, 2006) was already well underway, and as required by law, proceeded under the old ratesetting rules rather than the new law that we fought so hard to attain, but which will not go into effect until June 2008.