BEFORE THE
POSTAL RATE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20268-0001
POSTAL RATE AND FEE CHANGES, 1997
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Docket No. R97-1
RESPONSE OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
WITNESS PAFFORD TO INTERROGATORY
OF
NATlONAL.NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATION
(NNA/USPS-Tl-1)
The United States Postal Service hereby provides the response c4 witness Pafford
to the following interrogatory
of National Newspaper Association:
NNA/USPS-Tl-1
filed on August 14, 1997.
The interrogatory
is stated verbatim and is followed by the resporrse
Respectfully submitted,
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
By its attorneys:
Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Ratemaking
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, SW.
Washington, D.C. 20260-I 137
(202) 268-2970; Fax -5402
August 28, 1997
Docket No. R97-1
ANSWERS OF BRADLEY V. PAFFORD
TO INTERROGATORIES
OF THE NNA
NNAIUSPS-Tl-1.
Please refer to the Postal Service’s responses to
OCAIUSPS-1, specifically with reference to subparts
g.k.m.
a. Please confirm that data collection training
includes training in the identification of in-county
periodicals.
b. Please describe the process by which a data
collector identifies in-county periodicals.
c. Please provide any manuals, instruclion papers,
videotapes or other documents that would aid a
data collector in identifying an in-county periodical.
d. Please list any changes that were made in the
systems or instruction in use of the systems for
measuring in-county periodical volumes since July
1. 1994.
NNAfUSPS-Tl-1.
Response:
a. Not confirmed
b. Data collectors for the revenue and volume
systems do not identify in-county periodicals
separate from all periodicals.
c. Library Reference G-44 of Docket No. R94-1
provides instructions data collectors use to identify
periodicals (publishers’ second-class
mail).
d. Offices where the bulk mail acceptance
function
became automated (PERMIT offices) were added
to the certainty stratum, and are treated as an ongoing census. Also, beginning PQ4 FYI996 the
Docket No. R97-1
non-automated
panel of offices was updated, and
the job streams for processing the data were
switched from the San Mateo ISSC to Postal
Service Headquarters.
DECLARATION
I, Bradley V. Pafford, declare under penalty of perjury that th’e foregoing
answers are true and correct, to the best of my knowledge, information,
belief.
Dated:
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and
Docket No. R97-1
CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document upon
all participants of record in this proceeding in accordance with section 12 of the
Rules of Practice.
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Anne B. Reynolds
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20260-I 137
August 28, 1997