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BEFORE THE
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20268-0001
Special
Services
Fees
and Classifications)
PO!jTli Fu,t COHH~S?IOII
OFFICE Oi THE SECRETARY
Docket
MC96-3
,No.
OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE
INTERROGATORIES TO UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
(OCA/LJSPS-65-69)
(August
30, 1996)
Pursuant
the
Postal
hereby
Rate
submits
documents.
the
to
United
incorporated
sections
25 and 26 of
Commission,
the
interrogatories
Instructions
States
Postal
Office
the
of
Rules
the
and requests
included
with
Service
dated
of
Practice
Consumer
for
production
19,
1926,
by reference.
Respectfully
2-4
submitted,
iL4L
GAIL WILLETTE
Director
Office
of the
Advocate
OCA Interrogatories
June
Consumer
DAVID RUDERMAN
Attorney
Advocate
of
of
1-4
are
hereby
to
Docket
No.
MC963
OCA/USPS-65.
programs
2
This
interrogatory
contained
documentation
in
in
SSR-84
SSR-82.
refers
for
to
the
data
TRACS Highway
The first
program
and
TRACS.EXPAND.HWY.PQ495.CNTL(SURVEY)
and
of
files
to
the
SSR-82
it
reads
is
named
and
is
program
named
a flat
file
named TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT.
a.
Please
(confirm
that
the
flat
file
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
If
SSR-84.
file
is
provide
b.
Please
you
do not
on the
confirm,
tapes
please
state
of
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
a copy
of
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT.
refer
to
page
108 of
Please
SSR-84.
different
file
If
you
do not
to
produce
the
confirm
name than
confirm,
which
please
explain
what
file
that
file
file
with
the
file
name.
TF?ACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
do not
confirm,
please
a
was copied
ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVE!!.TEXT.
of
file
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ49Ei.SURVEY.TEXT.
file
insertion
that
is
is
the
or
by copying
TRACSSMN.SAFE.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
being
SSR-84
confirm
was created
TRACSSMN.SAFE.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT,
Please
which
a copy
ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
C.
accompanying
".SAFE"
list
all
into
the
modifications
an exact
copy
only
of
change
If
made to
you
Docket
No.
MlZ96-3
produce
the
3
"SAFE"
file
TRACSSMN.SAFE.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT.
d.
Please
provide
a program
listing
showing
TRACS.E:XPAND.HWY.PQ495.CNTL(SURVEY)
executes
ALAHQNJIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
of
that
as the
input
TRAC,SSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT.
possible,
please
provide
a program
properly
If
f:ile
this
and data
inatead
is
file
with
not
that
work
together.
e.
Please
provide
a printout
(corresponding
file
f.
Please
to
g.
first
the
provide
refer
Please
confirm
20 observations)
a printout
to
the
showing
first
the
effects
of: the
first
flat
60 records
20 observations)
to
page
that
18 of
the
SSR-82
record
and to
length
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
180.
60 records
of
the
flat
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT.
Please
length
first
ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SLJRVEY.TEXT.
(corresponding
file
the
showing
(LRECL)
Please
for
1.08 of
(LRECL)
for
250 but
the
ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
explain
on the
is
page
program
the
reason
for
this
difference
SSR-84
record
is
and
TRACS.EXPAND.HWY.PQ495.CNTL(SURVEY).
only
the
Docket
h.
No.
If
MC96-3
any
4
TRACS files
interrogatory,
other
are
provided
please
medium
such
in
provide
the
as CD ROM) in
response
files
to
this
on a diskette1
a format
easily
(or
accessible
by PCs.
OCA/USPS-66.
data
sets
that
are
a.
Please
(in
For
page
For
with
these
in
SSR-84
3 of
each
SSR-84
files
for
lists
4
easily
please
files,
is
TRACS Highway.
on a diskette
a format
an exact
Please
file
that
SSR-82
file,
provide
corresponding
' For
Megabytes
The entire
quarter
of
contain
all
This
SSR-82.
(or
accessible
confirm
copy
of
medium
by PCs.
that
the
other
the
file
file
listed
on
SSR-82.
corresponding
i.
3 of
programs
these
of
page
TRACSSMN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SUIWEY.TEXT)
the
as CD ROM) in
each
to
to
provide
provided
C.
refer
addition
supplied
such
b.
Please
a file
file
is
not
that
listed
a duplicate2
is
a copy
on page
of
of
the
the
3.
example ALAHQN.HIGHWAY.PQ495.SURVEY.TEXT
is about
8.9
in size,
but compresses
(using
PKZIP) to 'only 367K.
PQ495 highway
data file
would only occup'y about a
One diskett'e
could
a standard
1.44MB diskette.
four quarters
of TRACS highway
data.
DIVMTO.LOOKUP.FLAT.TEXT
has record
length
of
' For example,
130 (LRECL, page 273, SSR-82) and ALAHQN.DIVMTO.LOOKUP.FLAT.TEXT
has record
length
of 40 (LRECL, page 104, SSR-84).
Docket
No.
MC96-3
ii.
Please
5
confirm
operate
not
that
correctly
confirm,
they
the
unmodified
on the
SSR-84
please
operate
provide
correctly
SSR-82
data
file.
programs
on the
data
programs
If
modified
files
you
do
so that
provided
in
from
a "SAFE"
SSR-84.
iii.
If
the
file
sets
a.
Please
such
b.
For
C.
For
differs
please
explain
"SAFE"
file.
Please
that
are
all
refer
these
as CD ROM) in
each
of
these
in
SSR-84
342 of
SSR-82.
each
SSR-84
corresponding
in
from
supplied
provide
provided
page
provided
that
OCA/USPS-67.
data
file
the
was copied
actual
file
modifications
to
page
with
files
files,
easily
an exact
that
SSR-82
file,
programs
is
copy
not
of
SSiR-82,
This
the
li.sts
for
TF?ACS Rail.
(or
other
accessible
confirm
in
construct
SSR-82.
on a diskette
please
file
used
made to
342 of
the
a format
is
SSR-84
the
file
a duplicate'
TRACSSMN.RAIL495.EXPAND.TEXT
3 For example,
length
of 80 (LRECL, page 375 of SSR-82)
and
ALAHQN.RAIL495.EXPAND.TEXT
has record
length
of
121 of SSR-84).
medium
by PCs.
that
the
4
file
listed
on
cmf the
has
111
record
(LRECL,
page
Docket
No.
MC96-3
i.
Please
6
provide
a file
corresponding
Please
ii.
confirm
operate
not
file
they
that
SSR-84
provide
of
SSR-82
data
data
programs
file.
programs
on the
the
342.
unmodified
on the
correctly
a copy
on page
the
please
operate
is
listed
correctly
confirm,
that
If
you
modified
files
do
so that
provided
in
from
a "SAFE"
SSR-84.
iii.
If
the
file
provide
explain
"SAFE"
file.
Please
overview
accessible
all
refer
data
other
in
from
beginning
input
(or
files
medium
SSR-84
the
was copied
actual
modifications
to
the
at
page
for
such
file
made to
TRACS Amtrak
the
used
322 of
the
estimation
estimation
as CD ROM) in
SSR-82,
construct
SSR-85.
Amtrak
in
a format
Please
on a
easily
by PCs.
This
OCA/USPS-69.
At
definitions.
(SSR-901,
differs
please
the
diskette
provided
that
OCA/USPS-68.
programs
file
the
question
page
strata
14 of
are
concerns
the
defined
the
IOCS stra'.:a
statistical
systems
documentation
as follows:
I?ost offices
are stratified
by size into
where the measure of size for each office
revenue
receipts
for the previous
fiscal
ten CAGs,
is its
total
year.
Docket
No.
More
MC96-3
insight
7
into
stratification
is
provided
in
response
to
OCA/USPS-31a:
An additional
were split
established
stratum
for mail processing
offices
that
from CAG C customer
service
offices
was
for variance
computation
An explanation
response
to
the
CAG A/B
tally
stratification
is
presented
in
OCA/USPS-33:
F263 is used to separate
CAG A/B tallies
into
strata:
'666666'
for the BMC's,
'555555'
for the
of large
offices,
and '777777'
for the remaining
in CAG A and B.
Item
three
group
offices
In
of
attachments
information
producfing
to
the
by stratum
is
a total
of
response
to
reported
for
9 strata
instead
OCA/USPS-T5-13,
CAG A/B
of
the
sample
as one
stratum
10 referred
to
in
SSR-90
a.
F'lease
provide
response
using
use
b.
to
the
B offices,
are
F263
two
'777777'
strata
that
that
different
definition.
for
or
according
corresponds
but
of
the
to
SSR-90
strata.
attachment
only
to
the
CAG A and 13 offices
(Instead
definitions.
'666666,'
confirm
'777777'
equivalent
OCA/USPS-T5-15
'555555,'
Please
of
the
of
"A"
or
"B",
'777777.')
to
OCA/USPS-33,
one stratum
indicates
Please
containing
that
clarify
an F263
code
CAGs A and
CAG A and CAG B
the
stratum
Docket
c.
No.
MC96-3
According
to
8
OCA/USPS-33,
stratum
that
corresponds
F'lease
clarify
whether
siampling
stratum
an F263
to
this
offices,
code
a group
group
all
of
of
'555555'
large
consists
defines
a
offices.
of
CAG A offices,
some CA<; A
or
both
CAGs A
and B offices.
d.
F'lease
confirm
that
number
belongs
to
not
e.
confirm,
could
Which
sampling
were
not
CAG B status
f.
Which
that
sampling
were
Please
strata.
CAG A or
the
explain
be assigned
stratum
in
the
three
what
CAG B office/finance
"F263"
strata.
If
other
strata
offices
(or
finance
FY 1992,
but
were
offices
(or
finance
FY 1992,
but
were
you
CAG A or
do
B
to.
contains
sample
in
numbers)
advanced
to
by FY 1995?
not
CAG A status
g.
one of
please
offices
that
each
provide
stratum
in
the
contains
sample
in
numbers)
advanced
to
by FY 1995?
internally
consistent
definitions
of
the
IOCS
CERTIFICATE
I hereby
document
upon
accordance
certify
all
with
that
I have
participants
section
3.B(3)
OF SERVICE
this
date
of
record
of
the
in
served
this
special
DAVID RUDERNAN
Attorney
Washington,
August
30,
D.C.
1996
20268-0002
the
foregoing
proceeding
rules
of
in
practice.