[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29398-29408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10377]


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POSTAL SERVICE


Change in Rates and Classes of General Applicability for 
Competitive Products

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.

ACTION: Notice of a change in rates and classifications of general 
applicability for competitive products.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth changes in rates and classifications of 
general applicability for competitive products.

DATES: Effective date: July 10, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Reed, 202-268-3179.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 5, 2022, pursuant to their authority 
under 39 U.S.C. 3632, the Governors of the Postal Service established 
prices and classification changes for competitive products. The 
Governors' Decision and the record of proceedings in connection with 
such decision are reprinted below in accordance with section 
3632(b)(2).

Sarah Sullivan,
Attorney, Ethics and Legal Compliance.

Decision of the Governors of the United States Postal Service on 
Changes in Rates and Classifications of General Applicability for 
Competitive Products (Governors' Decision No. 22-1)

May 5, 2022

Statement of Explanation and Justification

    Pursuant to authority under section 3632 of title 39, as amended by 
the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (``PAEA''), we 
establish prices and classifications of general applicability for 
certain of the Postal Service's competitive products. The changes are 
described generally below, with a detailed description of the changes 
in the attachment. The attachment includes the draft Mail 
Classification Schedule sections with classification changes in 
legislative format, and new prices displayed in the price charts.
    As shown in the nonpublic annex being filed under seal herewith, 
the changes we establish should enable each competitive product to 
cover its attributable costs (39 U.S.C. 3633(a)(2)) and should result 
in competitive products as a whole complying with 39 U.S.C. 3633(a)(3), 
which, as implemented by 39 CFR 3035.107(c), requires competitive 
products collectively to contribute a minimum of 10.0 percent to the 
Postal Service's institutional costs. Accordingly, no issue of 
subsidization of competitive products by market dominant products 
should arise (39 U.S.C. 3633(a)(1)). We therefore find that the new 
prices are in accordance with 39 U.S.C. 3632-3633 and 39 CFR 3035.102.

I. Domestic Products

A. Priority Mail

    The existing structure of the Priority Mail Retail, Commercial 
Base, and Commercial Plus price categories is maintained. No price 
changes are proposed, but classification changes are made to increase 
insurance to $100 for Priority Mail and to extend the inclusion of $100 
in insurance to Priority Mail Returns. Eligibility requirements for 
Commercial Plus Cubic pricing are being removed, so that all commercial 
customers can utilize Priority Mail cubic pricing.

B. Parcel Select

    Cubic pricing will be introduced for the Parcel Select Ground price 
category. No other price or classification changes are proposed for the 
Parcel Select product, and the existing structure is maintained.
    No other price or classification changes for Domestic Products are 
being made.

I. International Products

A. International Ancillary Services and Special Services

    Prices for Outbound International Insurance will be increased about 
55 percent on average to ensure adequate cost coverage, in response to 
recent directives from the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) in its FY 
2021 Annual Compliance Determination (ACD) to take corrective action in 
this regard in relation to Outbound International Insurance's failure 
to cover its costs in FY 2021. Prices for International Money Transfer 
Service (IMTS)--Outbound, which includes international Postal Money 
Orders and Electronic Money Transfer Service, will increase by about 
305 percent, in response to a PRC directive in the FY 2021 ACD after a 
finding that IMTS--Outbound did not cover its costs.
    No other price or classification changes for International Products 
are being made.

Order

    The changes in prices and classes set forth herein shall be 
effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 10, 2022. We direct the Secretary to 
have this decision published in the Federal Register in accordance with 
39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(2) and direct management to file with the Postal 
Regulatory Commission appropriate notice of these changes.

    By The Governors:

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Roman Martinez IV,

Chairman, Board of Governors.

United States Postal Service Office of the Board of Governors

Certification of Governors' Vote on Governors' Decision No. 22-1

    Consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632(a), I hereby certify that, on May 5, 
2022, the Governors voted on adopting Governors' Decision No. 22-1, and 
that a majority of the Governors then holding office voted in favor of 
that Decision.

    Date: May 5, 2022.

/s/
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Michael J. Elston,

Secretary of the Board of Governors.
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