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Postal Regulatory Commission.
Notice; correction.
The Postal Regulatory Commission published a document in the Federal Register on June 25, 2008 seeking comments on a plan for service performance measurement and reporting systems for market dominant products. The document contained several errors the Commission wishes to correct.
Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 202-789-6820 and stephen.sharfman@prc.gov.
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , page 36138, Table 2, correct the row beginning with “Standard Mail” to delete subscript 7 in column 6, and the row beginning with “Package Services” to delete subscript 8 in column 3, and in footnote 1, change “Table 1” to “Table 2” and delete the word “mail” to read: ( printed page 39997)
| Single-piece | Presort | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letters | Flats | Parcels | Letters | Flats | Parcels | |
| First-Class Mail | EXFC | EXFC | Start: Acceptance scan | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | EXFC as Proxy 2 | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility. |
| Stop: Delivery Confirmation delivery scan | Stop: External reporting | Stop: Delivery Confirmation delivery scan. | ||||
| Single-Piece First-Class Mail International | IMMS 3 | EXFC as proxy 4 | Single-Piece First-Class Mail parcels as proxy 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A. |
| Periodicals 6 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | N/A. |
| Stop: External reporting | Stop: External reporting | N/A. | ||||
| Standard Mail | N/A | N/A | N/A | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility. |
| Stop: External reporting | Stop: External reporting | Stop: Delivery Confirmation delivery scan. | ||||
| Package Services | N/A | N/A | Start: Acceptance scan | N/A | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility | Start: Documented Arrival Time at Postal facility. |
| Stop: Delivery Confirmation delivery scan | Stop: External reporting | Stop: Delivery Confirmation delivery scan. | ||||
| 1 Special Services are not included in Table 2 as they have different methods to “start-the-clock” and “stop-the-clock” from the market-dominant products. | ||||||
| 2 The Postal Service will use the External First-Class Mail Measurement System (EXFC) measurement for single-piece flats as a proxy for Presort First-Class Mail flats due to the very small volume of Presort flats. | ||||||
| 3 The International Mail Measurement System (IMMS) is an external measurement system for which an independent measurement contractor seeds mail into the mailstream. | ||||||
| 4 The EXFC measurement for domestic single-piece First-Class Mail flats will serve as a proxy for single-piece First-Class Mail International flats due to the small volume in the latter category. After clearing customs, single-piece First-Class Mail International flats enter the domestic mailstream and are handled with domestic single-piece First-Class Mail flats. | ||||||
| 5 The Postal Service will use the measurement for domestic single-piece First-Class Mail parcels as a proxy for single-piece First-Class Mail International parcels. | ||||||
| 6 Two mailer-operated external systems, Red Tag and Time Inc.'s DelTrak, will be used for Periodicals measurement during FY 2009, as the Postal Service transitions to a long-term internal solution. | ||||||
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36140, Table 3, in the row captioned “Overall Mailstream” under the column captioned “Letters (percent)”, change the number “17” to read “17.2”.
| Single-piece | Presort | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letters (percent) | Flats (percent) | Parcels (percent) | Letters (percent) | Flats (percent) | Parcels (percent) | Total (percent) | |
| First-Class Mail | 38.0 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 57.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 100 |
| Overall Mailstream | 17.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 25.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 45.2 |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36142, Table 4, change “South Carolina District” to read “Greater South Carolina District” and change all instances of “xx” to read “xx.x”. ( printed page 39998)
| District | Overnight (% On-time) | Two-day (% On-time) | Three-day/four-day/ five-day (% On-time) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Baltimore District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Capital District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greater South Carolina District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greensboro District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Mid-Carolinas District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| No. Virginia District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Richmond District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36142, Table 5, change “South Carolina District” to read “Greater South Carolina District” and change all instances of “xx” to read “xx.x”.
| District | Overnight | Two-day | Three-day/four-day/five-day | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) | Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) | Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) | |
| Capital Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Baltimore District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Capital District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greater South Carolina District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greensboro District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Mid-Carolinas District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| No. Virginia District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Richmond District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36142 in the third column, add a paragraph to read, “The Annual Compliance Report format for First-Class Mail is as follows:”.
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36142, Table 6, change all instances of “xx” to read “xx.x”.
| Mail Class | Target (percent) | Percent on-time |
|---|---|---|
| First-Class Mail: | ||
| Single-Piece Overnight | xx.x | xx.x |
| Single-Piece Two-Day | xx.x | xx.x |
| Single-Piece Three-Day/Four-Day | xx.x | xx.x |
| Presort Overnight | xx.x | xx.x |
| Presort Two-Day | xx.x | xx.x |
| Presort Three-Day/Four-Day | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36144, Table 8, in the column captioned “Area” add a row for “Southwest Area” following the row “Western Area”.
| Area | Inbound | Outbound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-day (percent) | Within + 3-day (percent) | Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-day (percent) | Within + 3-day (percent) | |
| Northeast Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| ( printed page 39999) | ||||||
| New York Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Eastern Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Capital Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Southeast Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Great Lakes Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Western Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Southwest Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Pacific Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| National | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36146, Table 12, add a table footnote following the table title to read, “Destination Entry includes Destination Bulk Mail Center, Destination Area Distribution Center, Destination Sectional Center Facility, and Destination Delivery Unit.”
| District | Destination entry | End-to-end | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) | Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) | |
| Capital Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Baltimore District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Capital District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greater South Carolina District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greensboro District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Mid-Carolinas District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| No. Virginia District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Richmond District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| 1 Destination Entry includes Destination Bulk Mail Center, Destination Area Distribution Center, Destination Sectional Center Facility, and Destination Delivery Unit. | ||||||
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36148, Table 16, change “Letters, Flats, and Parcels” to read “Letters and Flats”.
| Mail Class | Target (percent) | Percent on-time |
|---|---|---|
| Periodicals | ||
| Letters and Flats | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36149, Table 19, add the heading “District” to the first column to read:
| District | Within + 1-day (percent) | Within + 2-days (percent) | Within + 3-days (percent) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Metro Area | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Baltimore District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Capital District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greater South Carolina District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Greensboro District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Mid-Carolinas District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| ( printed page 40000) | |||
| No. Virginia District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
| Richmond District | xx.x | xx.x | xx.x |
In SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION , on page 36156, Table 25, delete superscript 1 from the table title.
| Mail class | End-to-end flow range (days) 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDU (days) | SCF (days) | ADC (days) | BMC (days) | |
| Periodicals | 1 | 1 | 1-2 | 2 1-2 |
| Standard Mail | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Package Services | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 See72 FR 72216 (December 19, 2007) for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands. | ||||
| 2 Only applies to Periodicals receiving the DBMC Container rate. | ||||
By the Commission.
Steven W. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-15785 Filed 7-10-08; 8:45 am]
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