7. Priority Mail Rates Complaint Case: Docket No. C2001-2
On January 12, 2001, a complaint was filed with the Postal Rate Commission, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3662, alleging that the one- and two-pound Priority Mail rates implemented on January 7, 2001, as a result of Docket No. R2000-1, did not conform to the policies of the Postal Reorganization Act. The complaint argued that, by rejecting a Commission-recommended change in the Priority Mail flat-rate envelope classification in Docket No. R2000-1, while at the same time implementing the Priority Mail rates the Commission had recommended, the Postal Service Governors had implemented one-pound and two-pound Priority Mail rates that were not supported by the evidentiary record of the case. The Postal Service moved to dismiss the complaint on a variety of statutory and jurisdictional grounds, and because the complaint was substantively without merit. On April 27, 2001, the Postal Rate Commission declined to institute proceedings and dismissed the complaint.