UNITED STATES OF AMERCIA
Before The
POSTAL RATE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20268-0001
Postal Rate and Fee Changes, 2000
Docket No. R2000-1
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OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE
INTERROGATORIES
TO UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
WITNESS WILLIAM P. TAYMAN (OCA/USPS-T9-39-41)
March 8.2000
Pursuant
Commission,
requests
to sections
26 and 27 of the Rules of Practice
the Office of the Consumer
for production
OCA/USPS-1-14
of documents.
Advocate
Instructions
of the Postal
Rate
hereby submits interrogatories
and
included with OCA interrogatories
dated January 24, 2000, are hereby incorporated
Respectfully
submitted,
TED P. &RARDEN
Director
Office of the Consumer
SHELLEY
Attorney
1333 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20268-0001
(202) 789-6830; Fax (202) 789-6819
S. DREIFUSS
Advocate
by reference.
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Docket No. R2000-1
OCANSPS-TS-39.
For purposes
T9-40 and -41, please consider
has begun offering
USC.
of this interrogatory,
and interrogatories
OCANSPS-
postal services to be services that the Postal Service
after filing a request with the Postal Rate Commission
§3623, and/or that the Postal Service has changed
by filing a request with the Commission
under 39 USC.
the rate or fee of a service in the instant omnibus
under 39
the rate or fee of a service
5 3622, or is asking to change
rate proceeding.
Please consider
nonpostal
services to be any other service provided by the Postal Service to the public,
including
retail services.
cost estimating
Please refer to pages IO-II,
procedures.
in which you discuss test year
For each of the following years-Base
Year 1999, Interim Year 2000, and Test Year 2001-
please state separately:
(a)
the estimated
costs of postal services,
(b)
the estimated
costs of nonpostal services.
(c)
the estimated
revenues of postal services,
(d)
the estimated
revenues of nonpostal services.
(6
Is it correct
that
requirement
some
types
Year 1998, Interim
of costs
that
make
up the
are jointly incurred by postal and nonpostal
explain the procedures
you employ to allocate to nonpostal
proper share of such costs.
the accounts
services?
Include in your explanation,
revenue
If so,
services their
a description
and data systems used to make an allocation
of
to nonpostal
services of their proper share of costs.
(9
Do you estimate,
services,
contribution
for each of the years
in the aggregate,
to institutional
will generate
cited above,
that nonpostal
(i) a surplus
(i.e., make
a
costs over and above the sum of the volume
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variable
plus the product
specific costs of providing
(ii) a deficit (i.e., the revenues
of the volume
nonpostal
variable
variable
services),
plus the
services),
services are less than the sum
product
specific
costs
of providing
or (iii) be in a position that the sum of the volume
plus the product
revenues they generate?
specific
costs of nonpostal
services
equal the
Please explain in full.
For the years cited above,
(9)
of nonpostal
nonpostal
is it anticipated
that any nonpostal
services
have, or will be, offered at no charge to the users of the service?
please
list all such services.
state the source(s)
Also, if your answer
of funds for operating
is affirmative,
each such service.
If so,
please
If postal
services are directly or indirectly the source of funds, then please so state.
For the years cited above,
(f-0
is it anticipated
that any nonpostal
services
have, or will be, offered at a rate or fee that does not cover the cost of
providing
answer
the service?
is affirmative,
any deficits
If so, please list all such services.
please state the source(s)
in providing
the service.
Also, if your
of funds that make up
If postal services
are directly
or
indirectly the source of funds, then please so state.
OCANSPST940.
of Governors,
Does Postal Service management
the Governors
of the Board of Governors
services?
make presentations
to the Board
alone, any Governors’
committee(s),
or any other subset
on the costs of providing
and revenues
related to nonpostal
Please explain the actions taken to make the financial condition
services known to the Governors,
of nonpostal
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OCANSPS-T941.
management
Do the Board
of Governors
or the Governors
alone approve
decisions:
(a) to offer nonpostal services,
(b) on the fees to charge for such services,
(c) on whether
institutional
it is necessary
for nonpostal
services
to make a contribution
costs of the Postal Service, or, conversely,
free or for a noncompensatory
subject to approval
fee?
whether they may be offered
Please explain fully.
by the Board of Governors
to the
If these decisions are not
or the Governors,
please describe
how the Postal Service makes such decisions.
CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that I have this date served the foregoing
participants
of record in this proceeding
in accordance
with section
practice.
b,iJvStephanie
Washington, D.C. 20268-0001
March 8, 2000
S. Wallace
document
upon all
12 of the rules of