PRC Chairwoman Goldway Responds To Sen. Carper On Travel Expenses

Documents from Postal Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Ruth Y. Goldway To Senator Thomas Carper in response to his questions on her travel: The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Chairman Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information,Federal Services and International Security U.S. Senate Washington D.C. 20510 Dear Chairman Carper, Pursuant to your letter of February 8, 2012, please […]

Goldway: USPS May Be Closing Post Offices Without Notifying PRC As Law Requires

Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway in a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wrote: During service performance consultations earlier this year, you discussed the internal Postal Service schedule for improving the process of reviewing retail facilities to evaluate whether closing them was appropriate. You explained that new procedures would be developed and then applied […]

PRC Chairman Goldway comments To Senate on USPS financial crisis

Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Brown, thank you for the opportunity to submit my comments as Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission for inclusion in today’s hearing record. I regret being unable to testify in person. We all know that in four months, the United States Postal Service will conclude its fiscal year and it […]

PRC Chair: No Five-Day Postal Delivery Anytime Soon

“Five-day mail delivery, if it ever happens, is a few years down the road, according to the chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission. PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway commented on five-day delivery as a guest on an April 11 podcast with Gene Del Polito, the president of the Association for Postal Commerce. “It’s not likely Congress […]

PRC Chairman Tells Postmasters It’s Too Soon To Review USPS PO Closings

PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway is responding to letter from NAPUS requesting a review of USPS post office closings: Last month, “NAPUS Post Office Preservation Committee Co-Chair, Retired Postmaster Keva Richardson (Thurman, IA) filed a letter with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which asks the Commission to review USPS plans to close more than 2,000 Post […]

PRC Chairman Goldway: USPS $238 Billion Loss Proclamation Is an Unsubstantiated Figure With No Connection to Reality

From Postcom.org: PRC Chair Ruth Goldway today told attendees of the IDEAlliance Print Distribution conference that the Postal Service’s proclamation that it will lose $238 billion over the next 10 years if nothing changes is an “unsubstantiated figure with no connection to reality.” Goldway said the USPS is presenting dire forecasts to scare Congress into […]

Testimony of PRC Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway

Testimony of Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway, Postal Regulatory Commission Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia April 15, 2010 Chairman Towns, Chairman Lynch, Ranking Members Issa and Chaffetz and members of the Committee and Subcommittee, thank you […]