2023-20499. Notice Initiating Docket(s) for Recent Postal Service Negotiated Service Agreement Filings

(Issued September 18, 2023)

	Docket No.
Competitive Product Prices:	CP2022–34.
Inbound Competitive Multi-Service Agreements with Foreign Postal Operators
Interconnect Remuneration Agreement—United States
Postal Service and Specified Postal Operators II (MC2010–34)
Negotiated Service Agreements
Competitive Product Prices:	MC2023–269.
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contracts
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 54
Competitive Product Prices:	CP2023–272.
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 54 (MC2023–269)
Negotiated Service Agreements
Competitive Product Prices:	MC2023–270.
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contracts
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 55
Competitive Product Prices:	CP2023–273.
Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 55 (MC2023–270)
Negotiated Service Agreements

I. Introduction

The Commission gives notice that the Postal Service filed request(s) for the Commission to consider matters related to negotiated service agreement(s). The request(s) may propose the addition or removal of a negotiated service agreement from the Market Dominant or the Competitive product list, or the modification of an existing product currently appearing on the Market Dominant or the Competitive product list.

Section II identifies the docket number(s) associated with each Postal Service request, the title of each Postal Service request, the request's acceptance date, and the authority cited by the Postal Service for each request. For each request, the Commission appoints an officer of the Commission to represent the interests of the general public in the proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 (Public Representative). Section II also establishes comment deadline(s) pertaining to each request.

The public portions of the Postal Service's request(s) can be accessed via the Commission's website ( https://www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of the Postal Service's request(s), if any, can be accessed through compliance with the requirements of 39 CFR 3011.301.^[1]

The Commission invites comments on whether the Postal Service's request(s) in the captioned docket(s) are consistent with the policies of title 39. For request(s) that the Postal Service states concern Market Dominant product(s), applicable statutory and regulatory requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3030, and 39 CFR part 3040, subpart B. For request(s) that the Postal Service states concern Competitive product(s), applicable statutory and regulatory requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 39 CFR part 3040, subpart B. Comment deadline(s) for each request appear in section II.

II. Docketed Proceeding(s)

1. Docket No(s).: CP2022–34; Filing Title: Notice of United States Postal Service of Filing Modifications to Rates Under Inbound Competitive Multi-Service IRA–USPS II Agreement; Filing Acceptance Date: September 15, 2023; Filing Authority:39 CFR 3035.105; Public Representative: Katalin K. Clendenin; Comments Due: September 25, 2023.

2. Docket No(s).: MC2023–269 and CP2023–272; Filing Title: USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 54 to Competitive Product List and Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: September 15, 2023; Filing Authority:39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 3040.130 through 3040.135, and 39 CFR 3035.105; Public Representative: Christopher C. Mohr; Comments Due: September 25, 2023.

3. Docket No(s).: MC2023–270 and CP2023–273; Filing Title: USPS Request to Add Priority Mail & USPS Ground Advantage Contract 55 to Competitive Product List and Notice of Filing Materials Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: September 15, 2023; Filing Authority:39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 3040.130 through 3040.135, and 39 CFR 3035.105; Public Representative: Christopher C. Mohr; Comments Due: September 25, 2023.

This Notice will be published in the Federal Register .

Erica A. Barker,

Secretary.

Footnotes

1.   See Docket No. RM2018–3, Order Adopting Final Rules Relating to Non-Public Information, June 27, 2018, Attachment A at 19–22 (Order No. 4679).