[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 229 (Thursday, November 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 83587-83588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26359]


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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: Applicability date: No earlier than July 1, 2024.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 13, 2023, pursuant to their 
authority under 39 U.S.C. 3632, the Governors of the Postal Service 
established prices and classification changes for competitive products 
to establish Zone 10 prices for Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, 
and USPS Ground Advantage. The Governors' Decision and the record of 
proceedings in connection with such decision are reprinted below in 
accordance with section 3632(b)(2). Mail Classification Schedule 
language containing the new prices and classification changes can be 
found at www.prc.gov.

Colleen Hibbert-Kapler,
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. 23-6)

November 14, 2023

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 competitive products in order to establish Zone 10 rates for 
offshore locations. Specifically, Zone 10 rates will be added to the 
price charts for the Postal Service's ``full network'' competitive 
products: Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, and USPS Ground 
Advantage. The rates will apply to mail destinating in Alaska, Hawaii, 
and US Territories, and not originating in the same state or territory. 
Prices are designed to be five percent higher than the January 2024 
proposed prices for Zone 8. Additionally, USPS Ground Advantage prices 
for Zone 9 will be increased to align with the new Zone 10 prices. 
Classification changes will be made in the relevant price charts to 
include new columns for Zone 10 prices. A detailed description of the 
changes can be found in the Postal Service's associated draft Mail 
Classification Schedule change document. That document contains 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 affected 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 
9.9 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 and classification changes are in accordance with 39 
U.S.C. 3632-3633 and 39 CFR 3035.102 and 104.

Order

    The changes in prices and classes set forth herein shall be 
effective no earlier than July 1, 2024, on a date and time determined 
at the discretion of management. 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:

/s/

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. 23-6

    Consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632(a), I hereby certify that, on 
November 13, 2023, the Governors voted on adopting Governors' Decision 
No. 23-6, and that a majority of the Governors then holding office 
voted in favor of that Decision.

    Date: November 13, 2023.

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Michael J. Elston,

Secretary of the Board of Governors.

[FR Doc. 2023-26359 Filed 11-29-23; 8:45 am]
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