Notice2025-06948
Competitive Postal Products
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Published
April 23, 2025
Issuing agencies
Postal Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The Commission is recognizing a recent filing by the Postal Service of specific rates for its Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and Bulky Letters product effective January 1, 2026. 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 77 (Wednesday, April 23, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17087-17088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06948]
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. CP2025-6 and MC2025-1310; Order No. 8808]
Competitive Postal Products
AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Commission is recognizing a recent filing by the Postal
Service of specific rates for its Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and
Bulky Letters product effective January 1, 2026. This notice informs
the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other
administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: April 24, 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. Contents of Filing
III. Administrative Actions
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
On April 15, 2025, the Postal Service filed a notice of rates not
of general applicability for Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and
Bulky Letters (Inbound E-format Letter Post), and a notice of minor
classification changes to Mail Classification Schedule (MCS) section
2340 concerning Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and Bulky Letters,
both of which will take effect on January 1, 2026.\1\ The Postal
Service requests that the Commission favorably review the proposed
prices so that the Postal Service may submit the prices to the
Universal Postal Union (UPU) before the May 1, 2025 deadline. Notice at
11-12. The Postal Service also requests that the Commission adopt the
proposed minor classification changes to MCS section 2340. Id. at 12.
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\1\ Notice of the United States Postal Service of Rates Not of
General Applicability for Inbound E-Format Letter Post, Notice of
Minor Classification Changes, and Application for Non-Public
Treatment, April 15, 2025, at 1 (Notice).
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II. Contents of Filing
In its Notice, the Postal Service proposes new prices for the
Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and Bulky Letters product. Id. at 4.
The UPU International Bureau (IB) requested via letter that designated
operators that want to self-decare their inbound E-format rates for
calendar year (CY) 2026 to submit those rates to the IB by May 1, 2025,
rather than the June 1, 2025 deadline that had previously applied under
the Universal Postal Convention.\2\ The Postal Service states that the
proposed prices comply with 39 U.S.C. 3633. Notice at 8. To support its
proposed Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and Bulky Letters prices,
the Postal Service filed the proposed prices, a copy of the
certification required under 39 CFR 3035.105(c)(2), and a redacted copy
of Governors' Decision No. 19-1. Id. at 6; see id. Attachments 2-4. The
Postal Service also filed redacted financial workpapers. Notice at 7.
In addition, the Postal Service filed an unredacted copy of Governors'
Decision No. 19-1, the unredacted new prices, and unredacted financial
information under seal. Id. at 6-7. The Postal Service also provided an
application for non-public treatment of materials filed under seal
filed pursuant to 39 CFR part 3011. Id. at 6; see id. Attachment 1.
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\2\ Id. at 3-4; Universal Postal Union Letter to Designated
Operators, dated March 18, 2025, available at <a href="https://www.upu.int/en/postal-solutions/programmes-services/remuneration/terminal-dues/provisional-terminal-dues-rates">https://www.upu.int/en/postal-solutions/programmes-services/remuneration/terminal-dues/provisional-terminal-dues-rates</a>; Universal Postal Convention Article
29.1, available at <a href="https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/aboutUpu/acts/02-actsGeneralRegulations/11_Convention_1.pdf">https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/aboutUpu/acts/02-actsGeneralRegulations/11_Convention_1.pdf</a>.
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The Postal Service also proposes minor classification changes to
MCS section 2340 concerning Inbound Letter Post Small Packets and Bulky
Letters, pursuant to 39 CFR 3040.190. Id. at 8. The Postal Service
explains that the proposed changes should result in the MCS more
accurately representing the Postal Service's offerings as of January 1,
2026, and they are also mandated by amendments to the Universal Postal
Convention Article 18 that were adopted by the UPU Riyadh Congress in
2023. Id. at 9. These UPU amendments require the offering of tracked
delivery service for inbound letter-post items containing goods
effective January 1, 2025, and require the offering of registered
service for inbound letter-post items containing only documents (not
goods) effective January 1, 2026. Id. at 10. Therefore, the Postal
Service proposes to restrict Competitive International Registered Mail,
an optional international ancillary service, to Inbound Letter Post
Small Packets and Bulky Letters containing documents only, effective
January 1, 2026. Id.; see id. Attachment 5. The Postal Service states
that the proposed changes are minor instead of material in nature, and
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they are consistent with the policies and applicable criteria of
chapter 36 of Title 39 of the United States Code, 39 CFR 3040.190-192,
and applicable Commission directives and orders. Notice at 10-11. The
Postal Service submits the proposed changes to the MCS in legislative
format in Attachment 5 to the Notice. Id. at 9; see id. Attachment 5.
III. Administrative Actions
The Commission establishes Docket Nos. CP2025-6 and MC2025-1310 for
consideration of matters raised by the Notice. Pursuant to 39 CFR
3010.101(q)(3) and 3040.191(d), the Commission appoints Katalin
Clendenin to serve as Public Representative in these dockets. The
Public Representative does not represent any individual person, entity
or particular point of view, and, when Commission attorneys are
appointed, no attorney-client relationship is established. The
Commission invites comments on whether the Postal Service's filing is
consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632 and 3633 and other appliable policies
and criteria of chapter 36 of Title 39 of the United States Code, 39
CFR 3035.105 and .107, 3040.190-192, and any applicable Commission
directives and orders. Comments are due no later than April 24, 2025.
The public portions of the filing can be accessed via the Commission's
website (<a href="https://www.prc.gov">https://www.prc.gov</a>).
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket Nos. CP2025-6 and MC2025-1310
for consideration of the matters raised by the Postal Service's Notice.
2. Comments are due no later than April 24, 2025.
3. Pursuant to 39 CFR 3010.101(q)(3) and 3040.191(d), Katalin
Clendenin 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. 2025-06948 Filed 4-22-25; 8:45 am]
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