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B-171594 1 (1973-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaehh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -'~~~ 111~75y3K & '' 'I 1' ,COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE S - WASHINGTON, D.C. 20648 RELEASED B.17159 4 jU!25 W3 1111f 111niIIIllIIlllllliif ll1111i B EST DOCU ENT AVAILABLE The Honorable Thaddeus J. Dulski, Chairman iCommittee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter summarizes the briefing GAO representatives gave to your Committee and Subcommittee staffs on March 7, 1973, concerning the United States Postal Service's proposed Preferential Mail System (PMS). We have given your s used in the briefing and informa- tion concerning the planned routing of first-class letter mail under PMS. In our briefing we presented the information requested on January 9, 1.973, by the former chairman of your Subcommittee on Postal Facilities and ail (see app. I) and certain background information on the proposed PMS. We have net reached any conclusions on, nor are we making any recommenda- tions concerning, the information presented in this report. We informed your staffs, however, that we had another job in process, in which we were examining into the need for the proposed PMS. BACKGROUND The proposed PMS is intended to improve mail service and to reduce opedting costs. The Postal Service has been studying this system since 1969 and hs developed designs for the PMS network and for the mechanized processing equipment referred to as the Letter Mail Code Sort System (LCSS) to be installed in each processing center. However, the Postal Service has not yet officially approved PMS. in February 1973, the Postmaster General stated that no decision had been nade an the proposed PMS and that a great deal of work had to be dop, before the Postal Service could determine the best policy to be followed. Hie stated also that the Postal Service w¢ould have to prove that it had thbc technical and managerial capabilities to handle the planned National Bulk Mail Svstl: before it could begin develuping PMS. 1A system of 21 m~echanized hulk mail facilities and 12 service facilitin,- -_i a:ed to process unoprefere.Lial second-, third-, and fourth-class rK, / such 'wa pnpes and p,rce1s.

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