Cost-of-living Adjustments in Star Route Contract Prices: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Postal Operations ... Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2035, a Bill to Provide for Cost-of-living Adjustments in Star Route Contract Prices. April 14, 1965U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 22 pages |
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adjustments in star apply the consumer ARY OF CONGRESS basis BATRUS Bureau of Labor Bureau of Transportation cents per mile centum rise Chairman changed conditions CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumer price index contract term cost of living cost of operation cost-of-living adjustments cost-of-living increases cost-of-living index DANIELS depreciation costs depreciation schedule drivers DULSKI employees enacted equipment ERNST GLENN CUNNINGHAM granted GREEN included increase in cost Index published ITEM JAMES Labor Statistics legislation letter LIBRARY OF CONGR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY OF LIBRARY Line Mail Carriers Association mileage National Star Route OFFICE AND CIVIL Pennsylvania percent Post Office Department PRESGRAVES provide for cost-of-living receive records request an increase ROBERT N. C. NIX route contract prices Route Mail Carriers rural route service salaries sectional center Self-explanatory small contractor SODREL star route carriers star route contract Star Route Mail star route service tires tractor United States Code vehicle
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Page 16 - After January 1, 1965, and after each succeeding January 1, the Postmaster General shall determine the per centum change in the annual average of the Consumer Price Index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor from 1963 or the year immediately preceding the most recent contract price adjustment made pursuant to this subsection, whichever is later. On the basis of such determination by the Postmaster General, the following adjustments shall be...
Page 22 - Mr. DULSKI. It is pretty difficult to make a living on 3 hours a day. Mr. ERNST. That is right. Mr. DULSKI. You have other members here who have traveled quite a distance to be here. Is there any other gentleman that would like to make any statement or add to the testimony of your general manager and president? How about the Buffalo man? Mr. FURCH. I think they did a very fine job in covering it, Mr. Dulski. Mr. DULSKI. If there are no further questions, the committee will stand adjourned. Mr. ERNST....
Page 16 - Some 4 or 5 years ago contract service experienced many radical changes in service under a program called the metro plan and many contractors had their contracts canceled or drastically changed. Now we are going through an even more rigorous program called the sectional center concept and the ZIP code program. It has been stated that there are some 566 sectional center offices throughout the country with 60 national transportation centers, or major concentration centers, serving the 34,000 post offices....
Page 17 - Please understand that our contractors are excellent drivers on the highways, and good mechanics, but they find it most difficult to maintain detailed records to reflect their actual cost of operation. Enactment of this law will most certainly be appreciated by all concerned and will provide much needed relief, especially to the small contractor, who at the present time is afraid to request an increase in pay for fear of losing his contract. Mr. Chairman, I am happy to have been privileged to appear...
Page 14 - June 30, 1975, to reflect changes in the series for food away from home of the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
Page 14 - ... the time shown in the entry. If the postmark on the original receipt for certified mail does not show date, the bid shall not be considered. (d) Award of contracts. — (1) Requirements for award, (i) Formal contracts for transportation of mail are required to be made after advertising shall: (a) be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder with sufficient guarantee for faithful performance whereby the term of advertisement; and (b) require due celerity, certainty, and security in the performance...
Page 3 - Washington, DC DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN' : This is in reply to your request for a report on HR, 2035 — an act, to provide for cost-of-living adjustments in star route contract prices.
Page 4 - ... to the measure by confining its application to star routes operated personally or requiring not more than two or more employees, we are still opposed to its enactment. The current law, title 39, United States Code, section 0)423, permits the Postmaster General, with the consent of the contractor, to readjust the compensation under a star route contract for increased or decreased costs occasioned by changed conditions. Our implementing regulations state that it is the...
Page 14 - Section 6416 provides for the renewal of contracts and states the Postmaster General, by mutual agreement with the holder of a star route, contract motor vehicle service, or water route contract, and without advertising, may renew the contract for successive terms, of not more than 4 years each, at the rate of compensation prevailing at the end of the preceding contract term, and so forth.
Page 5 - HR 2035, on the other hand, would also grant cost-of-living increases to contractors who do not personally operate their routes but conduct their star route operations as a business by employing others to drive their vehicles. Thus, under the bill, the cost-of-living increases in a great many cases would be granted to a business firm rather than to an individual. For example, we feel it would be inappropriate to be required, as we would under this bill, to grant additional compensation for a cost-of-living...