PRC tells USPS to provide more information on earlier consolidations
The Postal Rate Commission today required the Postal Service to provide data on any other plant consolidations that may have occurred around the same time as the ten it has already documented. This came in response to an interrogatory filed by David Popkin. Popkin had requested information on all such actions in the last 15 years, which the PRC found excessive.
The USPS had suggested that all such consolidations were irrelevant to the issue before the PRC. The Commission noted, however, that the ten consolidations already documented by the USPS
were completed prior to the filing of the Service’s request in this case. These supporting documents contradict the Postal Service’s suggestion that past operational consolidation actions are categorically irrelevant; they are useful for illustrating the operation of the AMP process—which is critical to implementation of its END strategy—and possibly for other germane purposes.
POR-5 - Presiding Officer’s Ruling on David B. Popkin Motion to Compel Response to Interrogatories
