U.S. Postal Service Seeks Dismissal of Pricing Protest
The Postal Service motion filed today lists a number of mistakes, misrepresentations and misinformation with the AMA’s request, including:
The Postal Service has proven extraordinary circumstances:
Precipitous, unprecedented and unforeseen drops in mail volume are inarguable and meet the definition and spirit of the law. In fact, a letter from two primary authors of the Postal Act, Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), noted that “extraordinary or exceptional circumstances” include not only terrorist attacks and natural disasters, but also “other events that may cause significant and substantial declines in mail volume…that the Postal Service cannot reasonably be expected to adjust to in the normal course of business,” such as the worst recession since the Great Depression.