Tag: Board of Governors
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USPS files 2016 Governors’ Resolution for 2018 Move Update Price Change
July 13, 2017 As if to illustrate just one aspect of the lack of Postal Service Governors, yesterday the USPS took the usual step of publicly filing its Governors’ Resolution to raise the penalty fee for Move Update as well as the method of determining compliance. In spite of its plural title, the resolution was…
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And Then There Were None…
July 13, 2017 AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…HOW CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE ABANDONED THE POSTAL SERVICE We have reported before about the governance vacuum at the Postal Service. With the lack of action by the Senate, the usual nine Presidentially-appointed USPS Governors dwindled to only one at the beginning of December 2016, and…
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Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Lack of Governors…
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor lack of governors will stay USPS from filing for 2018 rate increases It looks like the USPS will file for a rate increase this October for January 2018, as we speculated they would in our last issue. We raised the uncertainty because normally only postal governors can take such an…
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USPS has no Governors
The governance structure set up in 1970 for the U.S. Postal Service is now at serious risk. The nine outside governors appointed by the president are no more. All of their nine-year terms expired and the Senate has not confirmed any replacements. The candidates nominated by President Obama have not been confirmed, reportedly because of…
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USPS Could Have a Board of No Governors
The USPS Inspector General recently joined others in sounding the alarm that the Postal Service will lose its lone sitting Governor in December. There are normally nine Governors, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, by the count has shrunk down to one and could soon be none. Most blame a ‘hold’ placed…