The @PostalRegulator is inviting stakeholder consultation on USPS rate increases, as directed by Congress. For some reason, the PRC hasn't created a docket for this; instead, comments can be sent via letter or email. Will they be posted on the PRC website?https://www.prc.gov/sites/default/files/Stakeholder%20input%20for%20appropriations%20act%20study.pdf
Check out this news video about the pending closure of the post office in Coram, MT, near Glacier National Park, and how it will affect the community, and how the USPS couldn't care less.
Coram residents voice concerns after news of local post office closing
For a rural town like Coram in northwest Montana, a post office is a way for many to connect not only to o...
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The USPS financial report for April 2022 is one for the history books. It shows a net income of $60 billion for the month — the one-time impact of the postal reform bill, which reversed the retiree health benefit deficit that had accrued since 2012.
https://www.prc.gov/docs/121/121830/2022.5.24%20April%20FY2022%20Monthly%20Financial%20Report.pdf
A post office was established in Coram, MT in 1914. In 1975 it was converted to Community Post Office (a type of contract postal unit), and the community lost its right to appeal a closing (so say the @USPS and recent decisions by the @PostalRegulator). https://www.flickr.com/photos/outlawpete/4153771306
“The post office is our community center. Everyone knows each other, and people post on the bulletin boards. I almost always run into someone I know or someone I haven’t seen in a while at the post office.” https://flatheadbeacon.com/2022/05/23/coram-post-office-to-close-this-summer/
“The post office is our community center. Everyone knows each other, and people post on the bulletin boards. I almost always run into someone I know or someone I haven’t seen in a while at the post office.”
Coram Post Office to Close this Summer - Flathead Beacon
For the last four decades, Kim Pinter and her husband have lived in the remote Bad Rock Canyon seven miles wes...
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Here's a map showing the 170 post offices “temporarily” suspended several years ago that USPS now says "qualify for swift official Discontinuance." They'll be permanently closed by September.
Suspended post offices to be discontinued - Google My Maps
Suspended post offices to be discontinued
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Deja DUO: The USPS is planning another Delivery Unit Optimization initiative. The last one (2011-2013) relocated carriers from about 1,500 post offices. The OIG said it could not determine if the consolidations reduced costs or improved efficiencies.
DeJoy outlines USPS plans to close, consolidate facilities across its delivery network | Federal News Network
The Postal Service is looking to restructure its network of facilities in its delivery network as part of an ong...
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To Be Discontinued: The Postal Service identifies 170 suspended post offices for permanent closure
To Be Discontinued: The Postal Service identifies 170 suspended post offices for permanent closure
Earlier this week the Postal Service shared a list with the Postal Regulatory Commission identifying 170 post office...
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Earlier this week the @USPS shared a list with the @PostalRegulator containing 170 post offices, “temporarily” closed many years ago by emergency suspension, that "qualify for swift official Discontinuance." Here's the list, map, and more details.
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/to-be-discontinued-the-postal-service-identifies-170-suspended-post-offices-for-permanent-closure/
In making its argument against disclosing the contract (which may not even be an NSA with Amazon), the USPS cites as precedent a PRC case that actually did involve an Amazon NSA (as Amazon itself revealed by intervening). https://www.prc.gov/docs/89/89140/Order%20No.%201985.pdf
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/premature-motion-prc-dismisses-bid-to-view-non-public-amazon-docs/
