agreements between the Postal Service and postal 
users, when available on public and reasonable terms 
to similarly situated mailers, that— 
‘‘(A) improve the net financial position of 
the Postal Service by reducing Postal Service 
costs or increasing the overall contribution to 
the institutional costs of the Postal Service; and 
‘‘(B) do not cause— 
‘‘(i) unfair competitive advantage for 
the Postal Service or postal users eligible 
for the agreements; or 
‘‘(ii) unreasonable disruption to the 
volume or revenues of other postal users. 
‘‘(14) The educational, cultural, scientific, and 
informational value to the recipient of mail matter. 
‘‘(15) The need for the Postal Service to in-
crease its efficiency and reduce its costs, including 
infrastructure costs, to help maintain high quality, 
affordable postal services. 
‘‘(16) The value to the Postal Service and post-
al users of promoting intelligent mail and of secure, 
sender-identified mail. 
‘‘(17) The importance of stability and predict-
ability of rates to ratepayers. 
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‘‘(18) The policies of this title as well as such 
other factors as the Commission determines appro-
priate.’’. 
(3) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 3622(d)(1) of 
title 39, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 
through (E) as subparagraphs (C) through (F), 
respectively; 
(B) in subparagraph (F) (as redesignated 
by clause (i)) by striking ‘‘subparagraphs (A) 
and (C)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (A) and 
(D)’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following: 
‘‘(B) establish postal rates for each group 
of functionally equivalent agreements between 
the Postal Service and users of the mail that— 
‘‘(i) cover attributable cost; 
‘‘(ii) improve the net financial position 
of the Postal Service; and 
‘‘(iii) do not cause unreasonable dis-
ruption in the marketplace, consistent with 
subsection (c)(13)(B); 
for purposes of this subparagraph, a group of 
functionally equivalent agreements shall consist 
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of all service agreements that are functionally 
equivalent to each other within the same mar-
ket-dominant product, but shall not include 
agreements within an experimental product;’’. 
(4) TECHNICAL
AND
CONFORMING
AMEND-
MENTS.—Section 3622 of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘, within 
18 months after the date of enactment of this 
section,’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d)(1)(D) (as redesig-
nated 
by 
paragraph 
(3)(A)) 
by 
striking 
‘‘(c)(10)’’ and inserting ‘‘(c)(13)’’. 
(b) REPEAL OF RATE PREFERENCES FOR QUALI-
FIED POLITICAL COMMITTEES.—Subsection (e) of section 
3626 of title 39, United States Code, is repealed. 
(c) USE OF NEGOTIATED SERVICE AGREEMENTS.— 
(1) STREAMLINED
REVIEW
OF
QUALIFYING 
SERVICE
AGREEMENTS
FOR
COMPETITIVE
PROD-
UCTS.—Section 3633 of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) STREAMLINED REVIEW.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of enactment of this subsection, after 
notice and opportunity for comment, the Postal Regu-
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latory Commission shall promulgate (and may from time 
to time thereafter revise) regulations for streamlined 
after-the-fact review of newly proposed agreements be-
tween the Postal Service and users of the mail that provide 
rates not of general applicability for competitive products. 
Streamlined review shall apply only if agreements are 
functionally equivalent to existing agreements that have 
collectively covered attributable costs and collectively im-
proved the net financial position of the Postal Service. The 
regulations issued under this subsection shall provide that 
streamlined review shall be concluded not later than 5 
business days after the date on which the agreement is 
filed with the Commission and shall be limited to approval 
or disapproval of the agreement as a whole based on the 
Commission’s determination of its functional equivalence. 
Agreements not approved may be resubmitted without 
prejudice under section 3632.’’. 
(2) SUBMISSION OF SERVICE AGREEMENTS FOR 
STREAMLINED REVIEW.—Section 3632(b) of title 39, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
paragraph (5); and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following: 
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‘‘(4) RATES
FOR
STREAMLINED
REVIEW.—In 
the case of rates not of general applicability for com-
petitive products that the Postmaster General con-
siders eligible for streamlined review under section 
3633(c), the Postmaster General shall cause the 
agreement to be filed with the Postal Regulatory 
Commission by a date that is on or before the effec-
tive date of any new rate established under the 
agreement, as the Postmaster General considers ap-
propriate.’’. 
(3) TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR 
SERVICE AGREEMENTS.— 
(A) CERTAIN INFORMATION REQUIRED TO 
BE INCLUDED IN DETERMINATIONS OF COMPLI-
ANCE.—Section 3653 of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(i) by redesignating subsections (c), 
(d), and (e) as subsections (d), (e), and (f), 
respectively; and 
(ii) by inserting after subsection (b) 
the following: 
‘‘(c) WRITTEN DETERMINATION.—Each annual writ-
ten determination of the Commission under this section 
shall include the following: 
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