---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 3022.12"
title: "39"
number: "3022.12"
heading: "Pleadings filed in response to a complaint."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/3022.12"
---

# §3022.12. Pleadings filed in response to a complaint.

- (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the Commission, the Postal Service shall file its answer to a complaint within 20 days after the complaint is filed.
- (b) If appropriate, the Postal Service may file a dispositive motion or otherwise move to delay disposition of the complaint. If the Postal Service files such a motion, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission, the period of time for filing its answer is altered as follows:
  - (1) If the Commission denies the motion or postpones disposition, the answer is due within 10 days of the Commission's action; or
  - (2) If the Commission invokes the rate or service inquiry special procedures under [§ 3022.13](/cfr/39/3022.13.md) to the complaint, the answer is due contemporaneously with the Postal Service's report under [§ 3023.11](/cfr/39/3023.11.md) of this chapter if the complaint has not been resolved by that date.
- (c) If the Postal Service answer is delayed by the filing of a motion under [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, it may not obtain a further delay by filing another motion under [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section raising an issue or objection that was available to the Postal Service but omitted from its earlier motion.

## Notes

### Amendments

[74 FR 16744, Apr. 10, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 9656, Feb. 19, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 503; 3662.

### Source

Source: 74 FR 16744, Apr. 10, 2009, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 85 FR 9615, Feb. 19, 2020.

### Amendments

[74 FR 16744, Apr. 10, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 9656, Feb. 19, 2020]