Opinion and Recommended Decision: Postal Rate and Fee Increases, 1975, Docket No. R76-1 : Before, Chairman DuPont, Vice-Chairman Villarreal, Commissioners Miltich, 0'Doherty, and Saponaro, Volume 1The Commission, 1976 - Postal rates |
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Page 15 - Service under honest, efficient, and economical management to maintain and continue the development of postal services of the kind and quality adapted to the needs of the United States. Postal rates and fees shall provide sufficient revenues so that the total estimated income and appropriations to the Postal Service will equal as nearly as practicable total estimated costs of the Postal Service. For purposes of this section, "total estimated costs...
Page 29 - A substantial reduction in the percentage of return might be unsettling in its effect, particularly in light of the fact that the return allowed in 1920 was not realized. The fact that a utility may reach financial success only in time or not at all is a reason for allowing a liberal return on the money invested in the enterprise.
Page 117 - ... the requirement that 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 12 - Exception. — Parcels weighing less than 10 pounds measuring over 84 inches, but not exceeding 100 inches in length and girth combined, are chargeable with a minimum rate equal to that for a 10-pound parcel for the zone to which addressed.
Page 118 - Service reasonably assignable to such class or type; the effect of rate increases upon the general public, business mail users, and enterprises in the private sector of the economy engaged in the delivery of mail matter other than letters...
Page 118 - ... (5) the available alternative means of sending and receiving letters and other mail matter at reasonable costs; (6) the degree of preparation of mail for delivery into the postal system performed by the mailer and its effect upon reducing costs to the Postal Service...
Page 16 - Commission submit a recommended decision on changes in a rate or rates of postage or in a fee or fees for postal...
Page 117 - ... the value of the mail service actually provided each class or type of mail service to both the sender and the recipient...
Page 15 - Assuming without conceding that the Postal Service needs additional revenues to enable it, under honest, efficient and economical management, to maintain and continue the development of Postal Service of the kind and quality adapted to the needs of the United States...
Page 15 - For purposes of this section, "total estimated costs' shall include (without limitation) operating expenses, depreciation on capital facilities and equipment, debt service (including interest, amortization of debt discount and expense, and provision for sinking funds or other retirements of obligations to the extent tjiat such provision exceeds applicable depreciation charges), and a reasonable provision for contingencies.