Message from PRC Vice Chairman Langley
On July 11, 2012, beginning at 9:30 a.m., the Commission will hold a public hearing, in the Commission’s hearing room, to question the United States Postal Service on its Post Office Structure Plan (POStPlan). The Postal Service’s testimony, including its responses to discovery, is available for review electronically on the Commission’s website, http://www.prc.gov/. The Commission will provide a live, audio webcast of the hearing from the home page of the website.
The Postal Service announced this proposal to adjust its postal retail network by changing the operating hours at approximately 17,700 of the 32,000 postal retail locations across the country on May 25, 2012. The Postal Service indicates that based on community input and its operational needs, the POStPlan could, among other things, result in changes to post office retail service hours. Thus, the POStPlan has the potential to affect the service that users receive at the Postal Service’s retail facilities located across the nation.
The Commission is now reviewing the proposal (Docket N2012-2). A list of impacted postal retail facilities may be viewed here.
The Commission welcomes public comment on the Postal Service’s proposal. Interested persons may submit their views to the Commission by mail, or by clicking ‘contact PRC’. All comments received will be filed in the public commenter file in Docket No. N2012-2 and will be available for review by the public.
My fellow Commissioners and I will review the proposal along with the Postal Service’s evidence and justifications in this filing. We will listen to testimony at public hearings and render our Advisory Opinion based on evidence developed in the case. It is important to note that the Commission will not determine the operational hours of any individual postal facility. A letter to members of Congress to clarify our role in this process is posted on the “What’s New” column.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Nanci E. Langley, Vice Chairman,
Presiding Officer
To reduce hours and have underpaid part time employees is the wrong move for post office. What contract office is going to care about what was mailed at a different contract office. The excuse of it wasn’t a real post office isn’t going to cut it for an answer when contracting takes off. It’s like going to Bank of America to find out what was done wrong in the Wells Fargo branch. There will be no accountability for this cheap labor.
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