{"id":2258,"date":"2011-05-24T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:01:20","slug":"appeals-court-remands-usps-exigent-rate-case-back-to-prc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/05\/24\/appeals-court-remands-usps-exigent-rate-case-back-to-prc\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Remands USPS Exigent Rate Case Back to PRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/USPS-News5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2259\" title=\"USPS News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/USPS-News5-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Unites States Court of Appeals issued its decision regarding USPS v. PRC (PDF) &#8211; exigency case. Basically, the Court found what they concluded is ambiguous language and has sent the case back to the PRC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcom.org\" target=\"_blank\">Postcom<\/a> tells us that Sen. Collins had the following to say regarding the courts decision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Today&#8217;s decision is a win for American postal customers,&#8221; said Senator Collins. &#8220;I am pleased the court correctly upheld the Postal Regulatory Commission&#8217;s decision &#8212; and my belief &#8212; that the Postal Service needs to prove that the exigent circumstances caused the effects that it claims necessitated a rate increase above the rate of inflation. &#8220;I urge the PRC to require that the nexus between the exigent circumstances and the proposed rate hike be close. This is necessary to preserve the stability and predictability of rates that the 2006 law I authored sought to establish. The PRC should ensure that its guidance not open the door to permitting the Postal Service to raise rates to cover revenue shortfalls from any cause that could be deemed an &#8216;extraordinary or exceptional circumstance&#8217; affecting any portion of postal operations. Any such resulting loophole in the hard, inflation-based cap could lead to disastrous consequences for the Postal Service, as the resulting rates would further erode volume as postal customers seek alternatives to mailing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the courts decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/0E008F38BDB53C138525789A004D99B2\/$file\/10-1343-1309574.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unites States Court of Appeals issued its decision regarding USPS v. PRC (PDF) &#8211; exigency case. Basically, the Court found what they concluded is ambiguous language and has sent the case back to the PRC. Postcom tells us that Sen. Collins had the following to say regarding the courts decision&#8230; &#8220;Today&#8217;s decision is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}