RECEIVELI
UNITED STATES OF AMERCIA
Before The
POSTAL RATE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20268-0001
Postal Rate and Fee Changes,
2000
Docket No. R2000-1
)
OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE
INTERROGATORIES
TO UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
WITNESS WILLIAM P. TAYMAN (OCA/USPS-TS-12-17)
Februarv 11.2000
Pursuant to sections 26 and 27 of the Rules of Practice of the Postal Rate
Commission,
the
Office
interrogatories
and requests for production
with OCA interrogatories
incorporated
of
the
Consumer
OCA/USPS-1-14
Advocate
of documents.
dated January
hereby
submits
Instructions
included
24, 2000, are hereby
by reference
Respectfully
submitted,
Director
Office of the Consumer Advocate
KENNETH
Attorney
1333 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20268-0001
(202) 789-6830; Fax (202) 789-6819
E. RICHARDSON
OCA/USPS-TS-12.
The
WHRCNVOO.xls,
worksheet
following
refers
WKHRCONV.
SPTDC-00.~1~.
The
following
For each worksheet
accounting
OCA/USPS-TS-14.
“Rehabilitation
manager’s
The
Program
additional
update
CONVERSION
refers
to
Budgeted
following
Hours.”
refers
Please
to
FACTORS.”
filename
amounts for the most
USPS-LR-I-126,
explain
page
19,
the basis for the program
1,795,OOO hour estimate for clerks in FYOO. Please provide
Operating
hours for the most recent accounting
“Customer
to
period.
in hours by labor category
OCA/USPS-TS-15.
the worksheet
USPS-LR-I-127,
the actual increase
Budgeted
filename
in the file, please update all manual inputs
to reflect FY99 actuals and the FYOO Operating
recently completed
USPS-LR-I-127,
Please
reflect the “PFY 1999 ACTUAL WORKHOUR
OCAIUSPS-TS-13.
to
The following
Address Awareness.”
for FY98, FY99 and the FYOO
period.
refers to USPS-LR-I-126,
The library reference
page
19 to 20,
indicates that city carrier
hours increased 41,000 hours as a result of the customer address awareness.
(a) Please explain why city carriers hours increased
improve customer
use of apartment/suite
as a result of a campaign
numbers designed
to
to increase the
speed of mail delivery.
(b) Are city carriers being used to educate the public on address hygiene?
(1) If your response
provide
to part “b” of this interrogatory
all data indicating
going “door to door.”
the success/failure
is affirmative,
rate city carriers
please
had in
(2) Please provide all documents,
scripts or other educational
the city carriers during the “customer awareness
(3) Did the Postal Service
perform
campaign.”
a cost/benefit
costs of using various forms of advertising
tools used by
analysis
evaluating
the
versus using city carriers?
If
so, please provide a copy of the analysis and cite all source documents
used. If not, please explain why one was not per-formed.
(a) If your response
to part “b” of this interrogatory
what caused the estimated
is negative,
please explain
increase in city carrier hours for FY99.
(b) What is the cost impact of including the estimated 41,000 hours of increased
city carrier costs on the individual mail class and subclass cost categories
FYOO and FYOI as opposed to increasing
OCNUSPS-T8-16.
Manufacturing.”
Please
refer
million increase.
non-denominated”
Identify in your breakout,
26,
“Stamp
the cost of producing
the “designed
If a stamp usage factor other than 100
please provide the estimated
this interrogatory,
usage factor.
For purposes
assume that the Postal Service is granted
increase in the First-Class letter rate.
OCANSPS-T8-17.
to
and “makeup stamp,” as well as an estimate of the volume of
percent was assumed,
one-cent
page
Please provide a detailed breakout of the $40
makeup stamps to be printed.
of answering
USPS-LR-I-126,
costs?
The costs for various supplies and services were estimated
increase by $40 million for FYOI.
First-Class
to
USPS advertising
for
For the First-Class letter “makeup stamp” that was most
recently printed, please provide the following: (1) the production
costs, (2) the
the
volume of makeup stamps printed, (3) the quantity sold in the calendar year
immediately
following its release, and (4) the actual quantity used.
CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that I have this date served the foregoing
all participants
of record in this proceeding
in accordance
document
with section 12 of the
rules of practice.
/3tyL-L
ik’.vStephanie
Washington, D.C. 20268-0001
February II,2000
upon
S. Wallace