Notice2025-19558
Competitive Postal Products
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Published
October 15, 2025
Issuing agencies
Postal Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The Commission is recognizing a recent Postal Service filing requesting to add a new Mid-Market Non-Published Rates (MMNPR-3) 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 197 (Wednesday, October 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48290-48291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19558]
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
Docket Nos. MC2025-1732 and K2025-1723; Order No. 9234]
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 Mid-Market Non-Published Rates (MMNPR-3) 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: October 14, 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:
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Postal Service Requests
III. Notice and Comment
IV. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
On September 30, 2025, the Postal Service filed a request to add a
new Mid-Market Non-Published Rates (MMNPR-3) 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. MC2025-1732 and K2025-1723, USPS Request to
Establish New Mid-Market Non-Published Rates Product (MMNPR-3) and
Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal, September 30, 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 (NPR). 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 included contracts under the Mid-Market Non-Published Rates
product within the Mail Classification Schedule (MCS), to be labeled
Mid-Market--Non-Published Rates 3 (MMNPR-3), and approve the associated
MMNPR-3 contract template.'' Request at 1. The Postal Service states
the proposed ``MMNPR group will consist of contracts with mid-size
customers who wish to ship Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, and/or
USPS Ground Advantage[supreg] packages with the Postal Service'' and
will be based on the existing MMNPR financial model and minimum rates
previously approved by the Commission in Order No. 8617 in Docket No.
RM2025-5.\3\ The Postal Service states that the Request includes a
contract template that is an ``updated and consolidated version of the
MMNPR-2 templates originally presented in Docket No. K2025-1124.'' \4\
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. Request at 3.
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\3\ Id.; see Docket No. et al., RM2025-5, Order Authorizing
Streamlined Review for Eligible Mid-Market Standardized Distinct
Products and Non-Published Rates Products and Adding Non-Published
Rates Products to the Competitive Product List, January 15, 2025, at
4 (Order No. 8617).
\4\ Request at 3; see Docket No. RM2025-5, et al., USPS Request
to Establish New Mid-Market--Non-Published Rates Product (MMNPR) and
Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal, November 22, 2024 (Docket No.
RM2025-5, et al., Request).
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The Postal Service states that the MMNPR-3 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. 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 MMNPR-3 contract, and all included contracts will remain
consistent with the financial model submitted in Docket No. RM2025-5.
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. MC2025-1732 and K2025-1723
for consideration of matters raised by the Request. Interested persons
may submit comments. Comments are due no later than October 14, 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. MC2025-1732 and K2025-
1723 for consideration of the matters raised by the USPS Request to
Establish New Mid-Market Non-Published Rates (MMNPR-3) and Notice of
Filing Materials Under Seal, filed September 30, 2025.
2. Comments by interested persons are due no later than October 14,
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 the publication of this order in
the Federal Register.
By the Commission.
Erica A. Barker,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-19558 Filed 10-14-25; 8:45 am]
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