---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 3030.129"
title: "39"
number: "3030.129"
heading: "Exceptions for de minimis rate increases."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/3030.129"
---

# §3030.129. Exceptions for de minimis rate increases.

- (a) The Postal Service may request that the Commission review a de minimis rate increase without immediately calculating the maximum rate adjustment authority or banking unused rate adjustment authority. For the exception in this [paragraph (a)](#a) to apply, requests to review de minimis rate adjustments must be filed separately from any other request to review a rate adjustment filing.
- (b) **Rate adjustments resulting in rate increases are de minimis if—**
  - (1) For each affected class, the rate increases do not result in the percentage change in rates for the class equaling or exceeding 0.001 percent; and
  - (2) For each affected class, the sum of all rate increases included in de minimis rate increases since the most recent rate adjustment resulting in a rate increase, or the most recent rate adjustment due to extraordinary and exceptional circumstances, that was not a de minimis rate increase does not result in the percentage change in rates for the class equaling or exceeding 0.001 percent.
- (c) If the rate adjustments are de minimis, no unused rate adjustment authority will be added to the schedule of banked rate adjustment authority maintained under subpart G of this part as a result of the de minimis rate increase.
- (d) If the rate adjustments are de minimis, no rate decreases may be taken into account when determining whether rate increases comply with paragraphs [(b)(1)](#b-1) and [(2)](#b-2) of this section.
- (e) In the next rate adjustment filing proposing to increase rates for a class that is not a de minimis rate increase:
  - (1) The maximum rate adjustment authority shall be calculated as if the de minimis rate increase had not been filed; and
  - (2) For purposes of calculating the percentage change in rates, the current rate shall be the current rate from the de minimis rate increase.
- (f) The Postal Service shall file supporting workpapers with each request to review a de minimis rate increase that demonstrate that the sum of all rate increases included in de minimis rate increases since the most recent rate adjustment resulting in a rate increase that was not de minimis, or the most recent rate adjustment due to extraordinary and exceptional circumstances, does not result in a percentage change in rates for the class equaling or exceeding 0.001 percent.
- (g) For any product where the attributable cost for that product exceeded the revenue from that product as determined by the Commission, rates may not be reduced.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 503; 3622.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 81126, Dec. 15, 2020, unless otherwise noted.