Thursday, June 13, 2013

Post Office Loses Fight to Preserve Deep Discounts

The Post Office's discount for presorted mail cannot exceed the cost the office avoids by not having to sort the mail itself, the D.C. Circuit ruled.
     "Through snow and rain and heat and gloom of night, the Postal Service delivers the mail," Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the three-judge panel. "But the Postal Service does so under the watchful eye of a separate independent agency, the Postal Regulatory Commission."
     The Postal Regulatory Commission establishes the rates that the U.S. Postal Service may charge for mail.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/12/58457.htm 

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