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RESPONSE OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
TO OCA INTERROGATORY OCAIUSPS-103
(November 14,1997)
The United States Postal Service hereby provides its response to the following
interrogatory of the Office of the Consumer Advocate, filed on October 30, 1997:
0cA/usPs-103.
The interrogatory is stated verbatim and is followed by the response.
Respectfully submitted,
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
By its attorneys:
Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Ratemaking
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Michael T. Tidwell
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20260-I 137
(202) 268-2998; Fax -5402
November 14, 1997
RESPONSE OF THE U. S. POSTAL SERVICE
TO INTERROGATORIES OF OCA
OCAIUSPS-103. Please refer to the United States Postal Service Response to
OCAIUSPS-48, filed October 24, 1997 (“Response”). Attachment 1 to the
Response shows that for FY 1996, FIM Letter Volume was 7,769,287,000.
Please note that First-Class Single-Piece Letter Volume as shown in, the CRA
Statistics by Class of Mail is 54,150,759,000.
Confirm that Attachment 1 to the Response shows first Class FIM
a.
volumes. If not confirmed, please explain.
Is it correct to say that 14.3% of First-Class letters are FIM-tagged?
b.
(7,769,287,000 divided by 54,150,759,000.) If not, please provide the
correct percentage and show the derivation thereof.
Please explain the difference between the 14.3% figure and the 12.51%
C.
figure used by witness Fronk (T-32) in his direct testimony, n.16, at 42, to
derive his estimate of 6,800 million pieces of courtesy reply envelope mail
in Test Year 1998.
d.
The 12.51% figure used by witness Fronk refers to “Stamped and
Metered FIM.” Please clarify what is meant by the term “Stamped and
Metered FIM.” Does the term include courtesy reply envelopes provided
to a household by businesses such as utilities, mailed by a household,
and to which a stamp is affixed by the household?
Please refer to the Rebuttal Testimony of A. Joseph Alexandrovich in
e.
Docket No. MC95-1, at 28 (Tr. 36116321). Table 1 on that page shows a
First-Class Single-Piece FIM Letter-Shaped Volume of 5829649,144.
Does this 5,829,649,144 figure identify the same type of FIM volume
identified as FY 1996 FIM Letter Volume of 7,769,287,000, as set forth in
Attachment 1 to the Response? If not, please provide an updated FY
1996 figure.
Response:
a.
The response to OCAIUSPS-48 mistakenly uses preliminary AP results
and will be corrected in a subsequent filing. The results for FY96 are
shown in the attachment to this response. FY96 ODIS FIM volumes for
single-piece letters, flats, parcels, and cards are shown in the row labeled
“Total FIM.” The response to OCAIUSPS-48 will be correctecl once FY95
ODIS volumes have been calculated.
b.
The percentage of First-Class single-piece letters that are FIM tagged can
be determined by dividing the ODIS “Total FIM” letters (8,064,978,543) by
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TO INTERROGATORIES OF OCA
the ODIS “Total” letters (50,263,855,497) which is 16.0 percent (see the
attachment to this response). The percentage of total First-Class singlepiece letters, flats and parcels which is FIM letters can be obtained by
dividing the ODIS “Total FIM” letters (8,064,978,543) by the ODIS “Total”
for letters, flats and parcels (in the column “Total L,F & P”),
(55,723,129,022) which is 14.47 percent. When this percentage is
applied to the RPW First-Class single-piece volumes of 54,150,759,000
we obtain the “RPW-Adjusted FIM” volumes for letters of 7,837,405,000
as shown in the attachment.
C.
The 12.51 percent figure used by witness Fronk is calculated using ODIS
volumes for all shapes, shown in the last column of the attachment. It is
the sum of “Metered FIM” volumes, 516,897,413, and the “Stamped FIM”
volumes, 6,885,148,058, divided by total ODIS First-Class single-piece
volumes of 59,152,043,001
d.
This refers to pieces with a FIM that are either stamped or metered
indicia. Courtesy reply envelopes provided by utilities and mailed by
households with an affixed stamp are included as long as the piece has a
FIM.
e.
As noted above the response to OCAlUSPS48 is to be revised. The
FY96 ODIS First-Class single-piece letter FIM volume is 8,064,978,543
as shown in the attachment to this response.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that I have this date served the foregoing documlent upon all
participants of record in this proceeding in accordance with section 12 of the Rules of
Practice.
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Michael T. Tidwell
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20260-I 137
November 14. 1997