Does the PRC Have Subject Matter Jurisdiction to Hear An Appeal of a USPS Station Discontinuance?

PRC News

March 08, 2011

Today USPS submitted a notice to  the PRC that in part states “…the content of an administrative record, or whether an administrative record exists at all, has no bearing on whether the Commission has subject matter jurisdiction to hear an appeal of a station discontinuance.”

In question is the decision by USPS to close the Eugene University, OR Classified Station. USPS states…

On December 7, 2010, the Postal Service filed the Final Determination to Close the Eugene University, OR Classified Station and Continue to Provide Retail Service and Post Office Box Service Through the Eugene, OR Post Office. On January 26, 2011, Eugene Area Local No. 679 of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO (the “Eugene Local”) filed a motion to compel the Postal Service to file the complete administrative record, and the Postal Service filed a reply to this motion on February 2, 2011. While ruling that its order “neither represents a ruling on the merits of the jurisdictional issue nor whether the discontinuance is subject to section 404(d),” the Commission granted the Eugene Local’s motion to compel on March 2, 2011.

In the end USPS made this decision…”in the interest of resolving this matter, the Postal Service filed the complete administrative record under seal on March 7, 2011. Today the Postal Service files a public version of the administrative record.”

You may read the public administrative record here (PDF – 16.15mb)

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