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To: muawiyah
THANK YOU! That's what I was looking for. Don't know why they don't make a link to it a priority right after they've changed the rates.
I appreciate your help!
22 posted on 01/30/2013 12:27:38 PM PST by texas_mrs
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To: texas_mrs
Having worked in the shop where part of the job was actually promulgating postage rates, I know a bit about this ~ Rate Commission issues decision and you get 10 days before you can publish the new rates. There are also always rule changes so somebody ~ meaning folks in that shop ~ will need to review virtually the entire Domestic Mail Manual (500 pages or thereabouts) in detail to make sure anything published is, in fact, the exact language needed.

There are usually 5 to 12 people directly involved in this since more means you lengthen your chains of communication making the job longer!

In the good old days we didn't have electronic memory available to help us ~ now they have plenty of it to get in the way!

Then you stay awake most of the 10 days ~ and you get the revised rules published in the Federal Register (which is a separate task and that starts about 4 days from the end of the 10 day period of performance).

Looking at this they've gone into the on-line version of the rules and cranked in the rates under the EXISTING structure. That will change in a week or so after a totally new website is rebuilt ~ with a vast amount of proofreading by the world's foremost experts in postal rules.

So, thank goodness I am retired now ~ I think I went through this nearly a dozen times over the years ~ and once it's done you have piddling little edit corrections over the next 6 months ~ as people read your stuff and figure out everything wrong you did.

Top level Postal management thinks this is far simpler than it is and give no extra credit for it ~ which is why they usually burn out a rule writer in less than 5 years.

This is why I know what happened to Tony Weiner ~ he burned out then flipped out and then started sending e-mails of his packages!

It can happen.

34 posted on 01/30/2013 1:12:39 PM PST by muawiyah
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