Notice2025-03971
Competitive Postal Products
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Published
March 13, 2025
Issuing agencies
Postal Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The Commission is acknowledging a recently filed Postal Service document with the Commission concerning changes in rates and classifications not of general applicability for Competitive products. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 48 (Thursday, March 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12002-12003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03971]
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. MC2025-1203 and CP2023-155; Order No. 8734]
Competitive Postal Products
AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Commission is acknowledging a recently filed Postal
Service document with the Commission concerning changes in rates and
classifications not of general applicability for Competitive products.
This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment,
and takes other administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: March 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments electronically via the Commission's Filing
Online system at <a href="http://www.prc.gov">http://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 and Overview
II. Initial Administrative Actions
III. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction and Overview
On March 5, 2025, the Postal Service filed notice with the
Commission concerning classification changes for the Business Rate Card
(BRC), which is a rate and class not of general applicability for
Competitive products.\1\ The Postal Service represents that, as
required by 39 CFR 3035.105(b), the Notice includes an explanation and
justification for the changes, and the effective date, and a schedule
of the changed rates. See Notice at 1. The Notice also includes a
certification of the vote, and a redacted copy of Governors' Decision
19-1. Id. The changes are intended to take effect on April 1, 2025, or
sooner upon favorable review by the Commission. Id. at 1-2.
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\1\ USPS Notice of Rate and Classification Changes for Business
Rate Card, with Materials Filed Under Seal, March 5, 2025 (Notice).
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Attached to the Notice is Attachment A, Governors' Decision No. 19-
1, which states the new prices are in accordance with 39 U.S.C. 3632
and 3633 and 39 CFR 3015.5 and 3015.7.\2\ The Governors' Decision
provides an analysis of the Competitive products' price and
classification changes intended to demonstrate that the changes comply
with 39 U.S.C. 3633 and 39 CFR 3015.7(c).\3\
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\2\ Notice, Decision of the Governors of the United States
Postal Service on the Establishment of Prices and Classifications
for Domestic Competitive Agreements, Outbound International
Competitive Agreements, Inbound International Competitive
Agreements, and Other Non-Published Competitive Rates, at 2
(Governors' Decision No. 19-1). The referenced regulations have been
reorganized since the issuance of Governor's Decision No. 19-1 and
are now found at 39 CFR 3035.105 and .107. See Docket No. RM2019-13,
Order Reorganizing Commission Regulations and Amending Rules of
Practice, January 16, 2020 (Order No. 5407) (effective April 20,
2020).
\3\ Governors' Decision No. 19-1 at 2. Reorganized to 39 CFR
3035.107(c). See Order No. 5407.
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The Notice includes draft revisions to the Mail Classification
Schedule reflecting the changes to this class not of general
applicability, the updated terms and conditions, and the BRC price
floors and supporting financial material filed under seal. Notice at 2.
Planned rate and classification changes. The Postal Service's
planned rate and classification changes ``will allow for business
customers to utilize the Postal Service's Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) to access BRC rates.'' Id. at 1. The Postal Service
states that the BRC ``provided the Postal Service with the ability to
extend dynamic competitive pricing to merchants who use the Postal
Service's own Click-N-Ship (CNS) platform,'' however, ``more and more
customers are using APIs to integrate USPS services directly into their
own software.'' Id. at 2-3. The Postal Service states that with these
classification changes, its customers ``will be able to access the BRC
through the use of APIs as well as through Click-N-Ship (CNS)'' and
that ``[t]he API [t]erms and [c]onditions will provide for the same
core restrictions for the BRC as previously provided to the Commission
for the original BRC on CNS arrangement.'' Id. at 3.
The Postal Service asserts that ``BRC rates should continue to be
sufficiently distinct from rates available to all
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mailers on the same terms and conditions to be appropriately classified
as rates not of general applicability.'' Id. at 4. Additionally, the
Postal Service states that ``the updated BRC price floors will likewise
improve the competitiveness of the Postal Service while also ensuring
that all product costs are fully covered.'' Id.
II. Initial Administrative Actions
The Commission establishes Docket Nos. MC2025-1203 and CP2023-155
for consideration of matters raised by the Notice. Pursuant to 39
U.S.C. 505, Christopher C. Mohr is appointed to serve as Public
Representative to represent the interests of the general public in this
docket. The Commission invites comments on whether the Postal Service's
filing is consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632, 3633, and 39 CFR 3035.105 and
.107. Comments are due no later than March 21, 2025. The public
portions of the filing can be accessed via the Commission's website
(<a href="http://www.prc.gov">http://www.prc.gov</a>).
III. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket Nos. MC2025-1203 and CP2023-
155 for consideration of matters raised by the Postal Service's Notice.
2. Comments are due no later than March 21, 2025.
3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Christopher C. Mohr will serve as an
officer of the Commission (Public Representative) to represent the
interests of the general public in these dockets.
4. The Secretary shall arrange for publication of this Order in the
Federal Register.
By the Commission.
Erica A. Barker,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-03971 Filed 3-12-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7710-FW-P
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