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0';019 - [B22072251
rTest Involving Shipment of Unaccompanied Baggage as Spcce
Avail'ble Mail on Commercial Airlizes]. LCD-78-240; B-133025.
Auqust 4, 1978. 3 pp.
Report to Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, Chairman, Senate Committee on
Appropriations; by Elmer B. Staats, Ccmptrcller General.
Iisue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Federal
Transportation of Th. .ngs (704).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Fumction: National Defense;: Department of Defense -
Ailitary (except procurement 9 contractb) (051).
Organization Concerned: Department at Def'nse.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee en Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services. Sena WarreL G. fagnuson.
Authority: S. Rept. 94-446.
In 1976, the Senate Appropriaticna Committee stated its
belief that more than $40 million could be sawed annually if the
regulations governing the shipment of service membersi
unaccompai.ied baggage were amended to r )quire that such baggage
be shipped as space-available mail via ie U.S. Postal Service.
This shipping method seenmd feasible sn,: nrcels of personal
belongings as well as official material kaave been mailed by
parcel post since World War II. The Committee asked the
Department of Defense (DOD) to make a test to deterrine the
feasibility and cost effectiveness o- using space-available mail
to move unaccompanied baggage. DOD conducted a 1-year test,
completad on June 15, 1978, of unacccmpanied baggage shipments
from California, Texas, and North Carolina to Okinawa, Japan.
During the first 9 months of the tept, 1,587 baggage shipments
totaling about 375,000 pounds mere made frcm the three States to
Okinawa. only 31 shipments, slightly over 3,100 pouads, moved
under the test concept. With only 2% cf the shipments and 1% of
the weight moving under the test program, a meaningful
evaluation of the test was impossible. The only questicn
answered by the test was the acceptakility of the program. The
service memberse overwhelming selection of the conventional
method indicated that they rejected the test concept in its
present form. The lack of interest can be attributed to the fact
that service members have little incentive to use the
space-available method. If the Committee manta DOD to ret.est the
concept, incentives should be included. (RRS)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaaxwb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)