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Competitive Postal Products
The Commission is recognizing a recently filed Postal Service document with the Commission concerning time-limited changes in rates of general applicability for Competitive prod...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction and Overview
II. Initial Administrative Actions
III. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction and Overview
On August 8, 2025, the Postal Service filed notice with the Commission concerning time-limited changes in rates of general applicability for Competitive products.[]
The Postal Service represents that, as required by 39 CFR 3035.102(b), the Notice includes an explanation and justification for the changes, the effective date, a schedule of the changed rates, and a schedule showing current prices that shall be restored.
See
Notice at 1. The changes are scheduled to take effect on October 5, 2025, and will roll back to current levels on January 18, 2026.
Id.
Attached to the Notice is Governors' Decision No. 25-5, which states the new prices are in accordance with 39 U.S.C. 3632 and 3633 and 39 CFR 3035.102.[]
The Governors' Decision provides an analysis of the Competitive products' price changes intended to demonstrate that the changes comply with 39 U.S.C. 3633 and 39 CFR part 3035. Governors' Decision No. 25-5 at 1. The attachment to the Governors' Decision sets forth the price changes and includes draft Mail Classification Schedule (MCS) language for Competitive products of general applicability, as well as the MCS sections with the prices that will be restored on January 18, 2026. No price changes are being made to Special Services or International Competitive products.
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at 3.
The Notice also includes an application for non-public treatment of the attributable costs, contribution, and cost coverage data in the unredacted version of the annex to the Governors' Decision, as well as the supporting materials for the data. Notice at 2.
Planned price adjustments.
The Governors' Decision includes an overview of the Postal Service's planned price changes, which is summarized in the table below.
Table I-1—Proposed Price Changes
| Product name |
Average price
increase (percent) |
| Domestic competitive products |
| Priority mail express |
5.6 |
| Retail |
5.7 |
| Commercial |
4.9 |
| Priority Mail |
5.6 |
| Retail |
5.8 |
| Commercial |
5.2 |
| USPS Ground Advantage |
5.2 |
| Retail |
5.1 |
| Commercial |
5.3 |
| Alaska Limited Overland Routes (LOR) |
6.1 |
| Parcel Select |
5.6 |
| Destination Entry |
5.6 |
| Source:
See
Governors' Decision No. 25-5 at 2. |
II. Initial Administrative Actions
The Commission establishes Docket No. CP2025-10 to consider the Postal Service's Notice. Interested persons may express views and offer comments on whether the planned changes are consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632, 3633, and 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 39 CFR 3040 subparts B and E. Comments are due no later than August 29, 2025. For specific details of the planned price changes, interested persons are encouraged to review the Notice, which is available on the Commission's website at
www.prc.gov.
Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Christopher Mohr is appointed to serve as Public Representative to represent the interests of the general public in this docket.
III. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket No. CP2025-10 to provide interested persons an opportunity to express views and offer comments on whether the planned changes are consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3632, 3633, and 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 39 CFR 3040 subparts B and E.
2. Comments are due no later than August 29, 2025.
3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, the Commission appoints Christopher Mohr to serve as an officer of the Commission (Public Representative) to represent the interests of the general public in this docket.
4. The Secretary shall arrange for publication of this Order in the
Federal Register
.
By the Commission.
Erica A. Barker,
Secretary.