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The PRC has broad regulatory oversight related to Postal Service:
                                - Price changes
                                - Service standards and service performance
                                - Financial accounting and reporting
                                - Proposed nationwide changes in service
                                - Customer complaints
                                - Overall compliance with the PAEA

The PRC also issues regular and special studies such as:
                                - Annual Compliance Determination (Assessing Postal Service compliance with applicable laws during the prior fiscal year),
                                - Annual report to the President and Congress (Reviewing significant PRC activity in the past year)
                                - Universal Service and the monopoly (Special study and ongoing work to establish the nature and value of the Postal Service’s Monopoly and its Universal Service Obligation)
                                - Postal Service retiree health benefit obligations (Special study requested by congress to assess the computation and value of the Postal Service’s long-term liability for employee and retiree health benefits)

The PRC also has new enforcement tools, including:
                                - Subpoena power
                                - Authority to direct the Postal Service to adjust rates and to take other remedial actions, and
                                - Power to levy fines in cases of deliberate noncompliance by the Postal Service with applicable postal laws

The PRC also:
                                - Hears Appeals regarding Post Office Closings.

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