[Vision2020] "USPS vs. FedEx/UPS" Concerns

[Tom Hansen]

DON'T replace the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act with anything!
 Simply repeal it . . . do away with it!

The USPS operated fine . . . pre-2006.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


On Mon, November 21, 2011 1:59 pm, Wayne Price wrote:
> OK, And replace it with what?
>
> "The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006  (PAEA)
> enacted on December 20, 2006, made several changes to the PRC. Besides
> giving the body its current name, the PAEA significantly strengthened
> the Commission's authority to serve as a counterbalance to new
> flexibility granted to the Postal Service in setting postal rates. The
> law also assigns new and continuing oversight responsibilities to the
> PRC, including annual determinations of USPS compliance with
> applicable laws, development of accounting practices and procedures
> for the postal Service, review of the Universal Service requirement,
> and assurance of transparency through periodic reports. New
> enforcement tools given to the PRC include subpoena power, authority
> to direct the Postal Service to adjust rates and to take other
> remedial actions, and levying fines in cases of deliberate
> noncompliance with applicable postal laws. The Act requires the
> Commission to develop and maintain regulations for a modern system of
> rate regulation, consult with the Postal Service on delivery service
> standards and performance measures, consult with the Department of
> State on international postal policies, prevent cross-subsidization or
> other anticompetitive postal practices, promote transparency and
> accountability, and adjudicate complaints. It requires the Postal
> Service to fund within 10 years the pensions for all employees for 75
> years."
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> WMP
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