&i;c~vED
BEFORE THE
POSTAL RATE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20266-C1001
POSTAL RATE AND FEE CHANGES, 1997
pcSTAIRA~c.COW~S~‘~~
cFF,CE c~ THE sW!ETARY
Docket
No. R97-1
RESPONSE
OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
TO INTERROGATORIES
OF
THE OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER
ADVOCATE
(OCXUSPS-22-24)
The United
interrogatories
September
States
Postal Service
hereby
of the Office of the Consumer
provides
responses
Advocate:
to the following
OCA/USPS--22-24,
filed on
3, 1997.
Each interrolgatory
is stated verbatim
and is followed
Respectfully
UNITED
by the response.
submitted,
STATES
POSTAL
By its attorneys:
Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Ratemaking
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20260-I 137
(202) 268-2970;
Fax -5402
September
17, 1997
SERVICE
CERTIFICATE
I hereby
participants
OF SERVICE
certify that I have this day served
of record in this proceeding
Practice.
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington,
D.C,, 20260-l 137
September
17, 1997
the foregoing
in accordance
.,.
document
with section
upon 911
I;! of the Rules of
OCAIUSPS-22.
Please refer to Appendix A of volume 1 of the FY ‘1997 Office of’
Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress.
Please provide copies of the
followino audit reports:
Subject&se Number
Classitication F!eform Implementation Review
070-l 190562-51(l)
External First-Class Measurement System Review
o;‘o-i 196249-s@ j
External First-Class Measurement System, Allegheny Area
050-l 197962-PA(3)
External First-Class Measurement System, Mississippi District
052-I 196645-PA(3)
Delivery Point Sequence Program, Seattle, WA
3’l3-1192650-PA(3)
Mail Measurement & Recording in Delivery Units, Gateway District
3’l4-1201534.PA(3)
Highway Contract Route Contract Administration
462-l 196064-El(l)
RESPONSE:
Copies of the following
case numbers
are being filed today in Library Reference
H-267:
070-I 190528-S(1)
050-I 197982-PA(3)
052-I 196645PA(3)
3 13-I 192650-PA(3)
314-1201534-PA(3)
070-I 196249Sl(l).
The Inspection
Service
from its field function;
release)
is still in the process
a copy will be reviewed
upon its receipt.
investigation
of individual
Case Number
conduct.
of obtaining
Case Number
070-I 196249-Sl(1)
and filed (or an objection
will be filed to its
462-l 198064-El(l)
is not an audit, but an
A report for this case was not filed.
.; RESPONSE
OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICEJO
OF THE OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER
OCAIUSPS-23.
Please refer to the response
INTERROG.ATORIES
ADVOCATE
to OCAIUSPS-1
lc.
a.
Please confirm that all postmasters are compensated
compensation
package which became effective on February
not confirm, please explain.
Please
b.
compensation
i.
ii.
Ill.
If you do not
according to the
3. ,1996. If you do
confirm that there are three types of postmasters
covered by the
package referred to in part a. above:
Executive and Administrative
Schedule (herein EA.S) postmasters:
F,air Labor Standards Act (herein FLSA) exempt postmasters,
and
FLSA non-exempt postmasters.
confirm, please explain.
Please provide the total number of postmasters
compensation
package referred to in part a. above.
C.
covered
by the
d.
Please provide the FY 1996 year-end number of postmasters
by CAG by
FLSA status. If it is more convenient to supply the requested data for some
other time in FY1996, that is satisfactory.
Please provide the FY 1996 year-end number of postmasters
by CAG by
e.
EAS pay grade. Please provide this data for the same point in time as the data
supplied in response to part d.. above.
a.
Not confirmed.
This compensation
There are 100 PCES Postmasters
package
covered
addresses
all EAS Postmasters.
by the PCES compensation
structure,
b.
Not confirmed.
further
C.
-_-
categorized
covers all EAS postmasters.
as either FLSA exempt
EAS postmasters
or non-exempt,
As of the end of PFY 1996 (pay period 19) there were 26,366
covered
d.
This package
by this compensation
See attached
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table
package
EAS postmasters
are
e.
‘i
r
See attached
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table.
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RESPONSE
PF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE TO INTERROGATORIES
OF THE OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER
ADVOCATE
OCAIUSPS-24.
Please refer to the response to OCWUSPS-llc.
PINease explain the
Postal Service’s rationale for designating postmasters that supervise I~ess than two full time employees as “FLSA non-exempt.”
--
Response:
The Postal Service’s
than two full time employees
standards
definition
rationale
for designating
as “FLSA non-exempt”
set forth in the Code of Federal
of exempt.
Regulations
postmasters
that wpervise
is the interpretation
and the Department
less
of the
of Labor’s
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