Pricing Update

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Pricing Update
or the Im no Ashley Lyons Tour
MTAC August 3, 2006
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Im no Ashley Lyons

• When I talk, I usually say something
• I have no Alabama stories
• I dance to music.
• .he just dances
• I actually have feelings
• He is usually.. right

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High-Level Initiatives

• Shape-based pricing
• Less emphasis on weight
• Incentives
• Containers
• Drop shipping
• Sorting
• Packaging
• More choices
• Forever Stamp
• Low-cost Address Change Service

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Where We Are

• 92 days since filing
• 30 through 10-month timeline
• 54 Interveners
• Hearings from August 3 to August 30
• 2,600 interrogatories by 26 interveners
• Intervener proposals September 6

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Timeline
2006
2007 May Jun July Aug Sep
Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
Mar Apr May Jun
10 Months
1 Year
Filing Date (May 3, 2006)
Litigation (May through March 2007)








PRC Recommendation (Early March)
Governors Decision (March/April)
Implementation (May/June)
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Issues

• Wide variety of issues
• large and small
• Federal Register process
• we understand the importance
• appreciate patience and input