We do, however, have other concerns about the governance of the Postal Service. The new Inspectors General of the Postal Service and of the Postal Rate Commission would be Presidentially-appointed. Members of the Postal Rate Commission and the Postal Service Board of Governors are also Presidentially-appointed. Too often, these important seats on the PRC or the Governors go vacant too long. The recent Classification proceedings encompassing the comprehensive overhaul of the mail classification schemes were decided by only four Rate Commissioners.
More terms are due to expire on both panels in the next couple of months.
Also, in an effort to improve the decision-making of the Board of Governors, we've often wondered why individual Governors have no personal staff. At the most recent Board of Governors meeting in Washington on September 10, we heard several incorrect and misleading statements by staff to the Governors. That's a false statement delivered to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service by a supposedly responsible executive. Nonprofit mail covers all of its attributable costs and makes increasingly larger payments into the vast overhead pool of the Postal Service. Indeed, standard nonprofit mail pays a higher markup over the Postal Service's attributable costs than many competitive categories of fourth class mail and other commercial mail.