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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
13-114874. 113 FEB 2 8 1978
The Honorable Barry Goldwater
United States Senate
Dear Senator Goldwater.
This is in response to your inquiry regarding mail services to the resi-
I dents of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Specifically, you asked us to conduct
a study examining whether or not the Postal Service (I) is illegally interpret-
ing and administering a contract so as to deny home or rural delivery to the
citizens of Lake Havasu City, or (2) is improperly applying regulations rela-
tive to the criteria for providing city or rural delivery service in the case of
such citizens.
As we indicated in earlier correspondence, we solicited written reports
on this matter from the Postal Service, the Postal Rate Commission and
McCulloch Properties, Inc. # the developer of Lake Havasu City. We have
now received responses from all three parties. In light of the response
received from the Postal Service, perhaps the matter can be resolved to the
satisfaction of all parties. The Postal Service response states, in substan-
tial part:
In the experience of postal delivery service managers,
the circumstances at Lake Havasu City are uniuqa. Lake
Havasu City has been subdivided by its deveIf ke a con-
ventional suburban development into numerous small parcels
suitable for business places, single family homes, and small
multi-family buildings. However, the parcels of land have
generally been sold undeveloped. As a consequence, the de-
cision to develop each parcel is one for its owner rather than
the developer to make, and the resulting development has been
generally haphazard.
In addition, most of the parcels remain undeveloped, with
the result that many of the residents of the area are not eligible
for home delivery under the Postal Servlce's city delivery regu-
lations, which require that, 'Fifty percent of the building lots in
the area to be served... [must be] improved with houses or
business places. ' Postal Service Manual 155. lb, incuorporated
by reference, 39 C.F.R. 111.1 (1977). There have additionally
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