The Postal Crisis: The Postal Function as a Communications ServiceU.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Telecommunications, 1977 - Communication and traffic - 79 pages |
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12 Classes Postal Air Penalty Franked Allocated Appendix AT&T Board of Governors Class Fourth Class classes of mail communications industry consumer price index Cost per Piece decrease Deficit per Piece delivery dollars efficiency elasticity of cost elasticity of demand electronic communications Electronic Mail Employees Exchange Communications Federal Communications Commission federal subsidy Figure fiscal Free for Blind Government Printing Office higher postal Mail per Capita mail volume March 22 messages Millions parcel post Penalty Franked Free Piece by 12 Pieces of Mail Post Office Department postal crisis postal function postal industry postal monopoly Postal Operating Deficit Postal Rate Commission Postal Reorganization Act Postal Volume Postal Weight Postmaster price elasticity Private Express Statutes rate increase regulated regulatory significant technologies Telegraph telephone service third class mail tion trends U.S. Government Printing U.S. Post Office U.S. Postal Service United Parcel Service United States Postal users USPS volume elasticity Volume per Capita
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Page 78 - The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people.
Page ii - Perform analysis, engineering and administrative functions, including the maintenance of necessary files and data bases, responsive to the needs of the Director in the performance of his responsibilities for the management of the radio spectrum.
Page 31 - ... each class of mail or type of mail service bear the direct and indirect postal costs attributable to that class or type plus that portion of all other costs of the Postal Service reasonably assignable to such class or type...
Page ii - ... assist the Department in fostering, serving, and promoting the nation's economic development and technological advancement by improving man's comprehension of telecommunication science and by assuring effective use and growth of the nation's telecommunication resources. In carrying out this mission, the Office • Conducts research needed in the evaluation and development of policy as required by the Department of Commerce • Assists other government agencies in the use of telecommunications...
Page ii - ... the radio spectrum; Conducts research needed in the evaluation and development of telecommunications policy as required by the Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President, pursuant to Executive Order 11556; Conducts research needed in the evaluation and development of other policy as required by the Department of Commerce; Assists other government agencies in the use of telecommunications; Conducts research, engineering, and...
Page i - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS STATEMENT OF MISSION The mission of the Office of Telecommunications in the Department of Commerce is to assist the Department in fostering. serving. and promoting the nation's economic development and technological advancement by improving man's comprehension of telecommunication science and by assuring effective use and growth of the nation's telecommunication resources.
Page ii - Performs analysis, engineering, and related administrative functions responsive to the needs of the Director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President, in the performance of his responsibilities for the management of the radio spectrum • Conducts research needed in the evaluation and development of...
Page 44 - ... attorneys for the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA), concerning postal procurement of Neighborhood Delivery and Collection Box Units (NDBCU's). That paper contends, in summary, that the Postal Service's procurement program is unauthorized. Broad statutory authority has been given to the Postal Service. As an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States...