Notice2025-00149
FY 2024 Annual Compliance Report
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Published
January 10, 2025
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Postal Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The Postal Service has filed an Annual Compliance Report on the costs, revenues, rates, and quality of service associated with its products in fiscal year 2024. Within 90 days, the Commission must evaluate that information and issue its determination as to whether rates were compliant and whether service standards in effect were met. To assist in this, the Commission seeks public comments on the Postal Service's Annual Compliance Report.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2041-2042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00149]
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. ACR2024; Order No. 8460]
FY 2024 Annual Compliance Report
AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Postal Service has filed an Annual Compliance Report on
the costs, revenues, rates, and quality of service associated with its
products in fiscal year 2024. Within 90 days, the Commission must
evaluate that information and issue its determination as to whether
rates were compliant and whether service standards in effect were met.
To assist in this, the Commission seeks public comments on the Postal
Service's Annual Compliance Report.
DATES:
Comments are due: January 28, 2025. Reply Comments are due:
February 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments electronically via the Commission's Filing
Online system at <a href="https://www.prc.gov">https://www.prc.gov</a>. Those who cannot submit comments
electronically should contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section by telephone for advice on filing
alternatives.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
202-789-6820.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Overview of the Postal Service's FY 2024 ACR
III. Procedural Steps
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
On December 30, 2024, the Postal Service filed with the Commission
its Annual Compliance Report (ACR) for fiscal year (FY) 2024, pursuant
to 39 U.S.C. 3652.\1\ Public portions of the Postal Service's filing
are available on the Commission's website at <a href="https://www.prc.gov">https://www.prc.gov</a>. The
filing begins a review process that results in an Annual Compliance
Determination (ACD) issued by the Commission to determine whether
Postal Service products offered during FY 2024 complied with the
applicable requirements of title 39 of the United States Code.
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\1\ United States Postal Service FY 2024 Annual Compliance
Report, December 30, 2024 (FY 2024 ACR).
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II. Overview of the Postal Service's FY 2024 ACR
Contents of the filing. The Postal Service's FY 2024 ACR consists
of a 92-page narrative. FY 2024 ACR at 1-92. Additional materials are
appended as separate folders and identified in Attachment One. Id. at
11. In line with past practice, some of the materials appear in non-
public annexes. Id. at 41-42. An application for non-public treatment
of certain materials is filed as Attachment Two. Id. at 42.
Library Reference USPS-FY24-17 presents the United States Postal
Service Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report to Congress, which includes the
Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report, the Fiscal Year 2024 Comprehensive
Statement on Postal Service Operations, the Fiscal Year 2024
Performance Report, and the Fiscal Year 2025 Performance Plan.\2\
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\2\ Id. at 12. Since Docket No. ACR2013, the Commission has
published a separate notice soliciting comments on these materials,
which are prepared by the Postal Service pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 2803
and 39 U.S.C. 2804, and has provided the Commission's analysis in a
separate report from the ACD. See, e.g., Docket No. ACR2023, Postal
Regulatory Commission, Analysis of the Postal Service's FY 2023
Annual Performance Report and FY 2024 Performance Plan, July 2,
2024, at 11. The Commission will continue this practice in Docket
No. ACR2024.
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Similarly, a copy of the Postal Service's annual report to the
Secretary of the Treasury regarding the Competitive Products Fund,
required by 39 U.S.C. 2011(i), appears as part of Library Reference
USPS-FY24-39, along with the other Competitive Products Fund materials
required by 39 CFR 3060.20 through 3060.23. FY 2024 ACR at 12.
``Roadmap'' document. A roadmap to the FY 2024 ACR can be found in
Library Reference USPS-FY24-9. Id. This document provides brief
descriptions of the materials submitted, as well as the flow of inputs
and outputs among them; a discussion of differences in methodology
relative to Commission methodologies in last year's ACD; and a list of
special studies and a discussion of obsolescence, as required by
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Commission rule 39 CFR 3050.12. Id. at 12-13.
Methodology. The Postal Service states that it has adhered to the
methodologies historically used by the Commission, subject to changes
identified and discussed in Library Reference USPS-FY24-9 and in
prefaces accompanying the appended folders. Id. at 13.
Market Dominant product-by-product costs, revenues, and volumes.
Comprehensive cost, revenue, and volume data for all Market Dominant
products of general applicability are shown directly in the FY 2024
Cost and Revenue Analysis (CRA) or International Cost and Revenue
Analysis (ICRA). Id. The FY 2024 ACR includes a discussion by class of
each Market Dominant product, including costs, revenues, and volumes,
workshare discounts, and passthroughs responsive to 39 U.S.C. 3652(b).
Id.
Service performance. The FY 2024 ACR contains the Postal Service's
discussion of service performance in FY 2024. Id. at 42-54. Library
Reference USPS-FY24-29 contains public service performance information
required under 39 CFR part 3055 or in response to past ACD directives.
Id. at 42 n.52. Non-public service information related to the service
performance of international mail products appears in Library Reference
USPS-FY24-NP30. The FY 2024 ACR also discusses customer satisfaction
and consumer access to postal services, with supporting materials
appearing in public Library References USPS-FY24-38 and USPS-FY24-33,
respectively. Id. at 54-92.
Competitive products. The FY 2024 ACR provides costs, revenues, and
volumes for Competitive products of general applicability in the FY
2024 CRA or ICRA. Id. at 29. For Competitive products not of general
applicability, data appear in non-public Library References USPS-FY24-
NP2 and USPS-FY24-NP27. Id. The FY 2024 ACR also addresses the
Competitive product pricing standards of 39 U.S.C. 3633. Id.
Market test. The Postal Service describes the market test active
during FY 2024. Id. at 38-39.
Nonpostal services and inter-agency agreements. The Postal Service
discusses the nonpostal services and inter-agency agreements offered
during FY 2024. Id. at 39-41. Library Reference USPS-FY24-20 contains
supporting public material, and Library Reference USPS-FY24-NP32
contains supporting non-public material.
III. Procedural Steps
Statutory requirements. Section 3653 of title 39 requires the
Commission to provide interested persons with an opportunity to comment
on the ACR and to appoint an officer of the Commission (Public
Representative) to represent the interests of the general public. The
Commission solicits public comment on the Postal Service's FY 2024 ACR
and on whether any rates or fees in effect during FY 2024 (for products
individually or collectively) were not in compliance with applicable
provisions of chapter 36 of title 39 or Commission regulations
promulgated thereunder. The Commission also invites public comment on
the cost coverage matters the Postal Service addresses in its filing;
service performance results, levels of customer satisfaction achieved,
and such other matters that may be relevant to the Commission's review.
Access to filing. The Commission has posted the publicly available
portions of the FY 2024 ACR on its website at <a href="https://www.prc.gov/">https://www.prc.gov/</a>.
Interested persons may request access to non-public materials pursuant
to 39 CFR 3011.301.
Comment deadlines. Comments by interested persons are due on or
before January 28, 2025. Reply comments are due on or before February
11, 2025. The Commission, upon completion of its review of the FY 2024
ACR, comments, and other data and information submitted in this
proceeding, will issue its ACD.
Public Representative. Kenneth R. Moeller is designated to serve as
the Public Representative to represent the interests of the general
public in this proceeding. Neither the Public Representative nor any
additional persons assigned to assist him shall participate in or
advise as to any Commission decision in this proceeding other than in
his or her designated capacity.
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket No. ACR2024 to consider
matters raised by the United States Postal Service's FY 2024 Annual
Compliance Report.
2. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3653(a), the Commission appoints Kenneth
R. Moeller as an officer of the Commission (Public Representative) in
this proceeding to represent the interests of the general public.
3. Comments on the United States Postal Service's FY 2024 Annual
Compliance Report to the Commission are due on or before January 28,
2025.
4. Reply comments are due on or before February 11, 2025.
5. The Secretary shall arrange for publication of this Order in the
Federal Register.
By the Commission.
Erica A. Barker,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-00149 Filed 1-8-25; 8:45 am]
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