Notice2025-17738
Competitive Postal Products
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Published
September 15, 2025
Issuing agencies
Postal Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The Commission is recognizing a recent Postal Service filing requesting to add a new Fulfillment Non-Published Rates labeled Global Direct Entry--Non-Published Rates (GDENPR-1) to the Competitive Product List. 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 176 (Monday, September 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 44403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17738]
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. MC2025-1680 and K2025-1670; Order No. 9174]
Competitive Postal Products
AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Commission is recognizing a recent Postal Service filing
requesting to add a new Fulfillment Non-Published Rates labeled Global
Direct Entry--Non-Published Rates (GDENPR-1) to the Competitive Product
List. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public
comment, and takes other administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: September 17, 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
II. Postal Service Requests
III. Notice and Comment
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
On September 9, 2025, the Postal Service filed a request to add a
new Fulfillment Non-Published Rates (GDENPR-1) to the Competitive
product list pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3633, and 39 CFR
3035.105(a), 3041.205, and 3041.320.\1\
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\1\ Docket Nos. MC2025-1680 and K2025-1670, USPS Request to
Establish New Fulfillment Non-Published Rates Product (GDENPR-1) and
Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal, September 9, 2025 (Request);
see Request at 1 n.1.
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II. Postal Service Requests
Background. The Commission adopted rules for streamlined option
rulemakings in Docket No. RM2023-5 to ``address elements of 39 U.S.C.
3642 review and 39 U.S.C. 3633 pre-implementation review that are
broadly applicable to qualifying [negotiated service agreements
(NSAs)], and not particular to individual qualifying NSAs.'' \2\
Specifically, such proceedings are used to establish eligibility
criteria specifying the ways in which qualifying NSAs will be permitted
to vary from existing offerings, to review a proposed financial model
for qualifying NSAs that accounts for the financial impact of any such
variations, and to establish minimum rates for qualifying NSAs. Order
No. 7353 at 4.
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\2\ Docket No. RM2023-5, Final Order Amending Rules Regarding
Competitive Negotiated Service Agreements, August 9, 2024, at 4
(Order No. 7353).
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Non-Published Rates. Requests to add conforming NPR NSA products to
the Competitive product list are reviewed in public proceedings, and,
if approved, one or more included contracts using the same contract
template may be subsequently added to the product without requiring
further approval from the Commission. See 39 CFR 3041.320.
The Postal Service describes the Request as one to establish a new
set of contracts under the Fulfillment Non-Published Rates product
within the Mail Classification Schedule (MCS), to be labeled Global
Direct Entry--Non-Published Rates (GDENPR) and approve the associated
GDENPR-1 contract template. Request at 1. The Postal Service states the
proposed GDENPR group consists of fulfillment contracts with Global
Direct Entry customers and will be based on the existing Fulfillment
Standardized Distinct Product and Non-Published Rates (FFNPR) financial
model and minimum rates, previously approved by the Commission in Order
No. 8787 in Docket No. RM2025-7.\3\ The Postal Service states that the
Request includes a contract template that ``shares common components
with numerous GDE contracts filed as custom agreements in recent years,
and also has similarities to the FFNPR and [Business Partner Non-
Published Rates] BPNPR contract templates.'' Request at 3. The Postal
Service also states that the template includes common operative
components, specifically, the terms that address the applicability of
future surcharges, time-limited price changes, appeals,
confidentiality, duration (1-3 years), mutual termination for
convenience upon a negotiable notice period, and lack of provided
packaging. Id.
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\3\ Id.; see Docket No. RM2025-7, et al., Order Authorizing
Streamlined Review for Eligible Fulfillment Standardized Distinct
Products and Non-Published Rates Products and Adding Non-Published
Rates Products to the Competitive Product List, April 11, 2025
(Order No. 8787); see also Docket No. RM2025-7, et al., Order
Denying Motion for Reconsideration, June 16, 2025 (Order No. 8910).
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The Postal Service states that the GDENPR-1 template also contains
optional provisions for customers to utilize one of three pricing
mechanisms: (1) tiered annual pricing; (2) tiered previous quarter
pricing; and (3) tiered rolling quarter pricing. Id. at 3-4. The Postal
Service asserts that:
The selection of one of these optional provisions will not be
inconsistent with the standards of 39 U.S.C. 3633, as the pricing
mechanisms will not have any effect on the underlying financials of
any given GDENPR contract, and all included contracts will remain
consistent with the financial model submitted in Docket No. RM2025-
7.
Id. at 4. The Postal Service further asserts that ``none of the
pricing mechanisms will introduce any new cost element, establish a new
service offering, or impose any specific new requirements on the
customer.'' Id.
III. Notice and Comment
The Commission establishes Docket Nos. MC2025-1680 and K2025-1670
for consideration of matters raised by the Request. Interested persons
may submit comments. Comments are due no later than September 17, 2025.
More information on the proceedings may be accessed via the
Commission's website at <a href="https://www.prc.gov">https://www.prc.gov</a>.
Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Christopher Mohr is designated as an
officer of the Commission (Public Representative) to represent the
interests of the general public in these proceedings. 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.
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket Nos. MC2025-1680 and K2025-
1670 for consideration of the matters raised by the USPS Request to
Establish New Fulfillment Non-Published Rates (GDENPR-1) and Notice of
Filing Materials Under Seal, filed September 9, 2025.
2. Comments by interested persons are due no later than September
17, 2025.
3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, the Commission appoints Christopher
Mohr to 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. 2025-17738 Filed 9-12-25; 8:45 am]
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