When the U.S. Postal Service proposed a straightforward, across-the-board 5.4% increase in its 2005 rate case, you could have heard a collective sigh of relief that it wasn’t asking for more. The USPS said this year’s request would cover the $3.1 billion payment it had to make to an employee retirement-related escrow account. But what too many people didn’t hear was that it planned yet another case for 2006.
The upcoming filing will be neither straightforward nor across the board. In fact, mailers have come to call it
