Special Services Introduction The Special Services class includes 12 products: (1) Ancillary Services; (2) Address Management Services; (3) Caller Service; (4) Change-of-Address Credit Card Authentication Service; (5) Confirm Service; (6) Customized Postage; (7) International Ancillary Services; (8) International Reply Coupon Service; (9) International Business Reply Mail Service; (10) Money Orders; (11) Post Office Box Service; and (12) Stamped Fulfillment Services. Price Increases For the Special Services class, the Postal Service proposes an average price increase of 1.739 percent. At the time of the filing, the Postal Service had 1.741 percent in inflation-based price adjustment authority. Thus, for Special Services, the price increases in the instant proceeding create one component of new unused rate authority of 0.002 percent. The other component is the interim rate authority of -0.577 percent. Thus, the new unused rate adjustment authority from this proceeding is -0.575 percent. Therefore, the total unused rate authority equals -0.438 percent (0.052 percent from Docket No. R2008-1; 0.085 percent from Docket No. R2009-2; and -0.575 from Docket No. R2011-2). Table III-E-1 displays the average price increase given to each product. _______________ III-E-1 Special Services Price Adjustment Special Services Product Rate Change (%) Ancillary Services 1.55 Address Management Services 1.69 Caller Service/ Reserve Number 4.78 Change-of-Address Credit Card 0.00 Authentication Confirm 2.81
Special Services Introduction The Special Services class includes 12 products: (1) Ancillary Services; (2) Address Management Services; (3) Caller Service; (4) Change-of-Address Credit Card Authentication Service; (5) Confirm Service; (6) Customized Postage; (7) International Ancillary Services; (8) International Reply Coupon Service; (9) International Business Reply Mail Service; (10) Money Orders; (11) Post Office Box Service; and (12) Stamped Fulfillment Services. Price Increases For the Special Services class, the Postal Service proposes an average price increase of 1.739 percent. At the time of the filing, the Postal Service had 1.741 percent in inflation-based price adjustment authority. Thus, for Special Services, the price increases in the instant proceeding create one component of new unused rate authority of 0.002 percent. The other component is the interim rate authority of -0.577 percent. Thus, the new unused rate adjustment authority from this proceeding is -0.575 percent. Therefore, the total unused rate authority equals -0.438 percent (0.052 percent from Docket No. R2008-1; 0.085 percent from Docket No. R2009-2; and -0.575 from Docket No. R2011-2). Table III-E-1 displays the average price increase given to each product. _______________ III-E-1 Special Services Price Adjustment Special Services Product Rate Change (%) Ancillary Services 1.55 Address Management Services 1.69 Caller Service/ Reserve Number 4.78 Change-of-Address Credit Card Authentication 0.00 Confirm 2.81
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