---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 3050.24"
title: "39"
number: "3050.24"
heading: "Documentation supporting estimates of costs avoided by worksharing and other mail characteristics in the Postal Service's section 3652 report."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/3050.24"
---

# §3050.24. Documentation supporting estimates of costs avoided by worksharing and other mail characteristics in the Postal Service's section 3652 report.

- (a) The items in [paragraphs (b) through (l)](#b..l) of this section shall be reported, including supporting calculations and derivations.
- (b) Letter, card, flat, parcel and non-flat machinable mail processing cost models with Delivery Point Sequence percentages calculated, which shall include:
  - (1) Coverage factors for any equipment where coverage is less than 100 percent;
  - (2) MODS productivities;
  - (3) Piggyback factors and supporting data;
  - (4) Entry profiles, bundle sorts, and pieces per bundle;
  - (5) Bundle breakage, handlings, and density;
  - (6) Mail flow density and accept rates;
  - (7) Remote Computer Reader finalization costs, cost per image, and Remote Bar Code Sorter leakage;
  - (8) Percentage of mail finalized to carrier route;
  - (9) Percentage of mail destinating at post office boxes; and
  - (10) **Wage rates and premium pay factors.**
- (c) Pallet cost models for Periodicals;
- (d) Sack cost models for Periodicals;
- (e) Bundle cost models for Periodicals;
- (f) Other container cost models for Periodicals;
- (g) Analysis of Periodicals container costs;
- (h) Business Reply Mail cost supporting material;
- (i) Mail processing units costs for Carrier Route, High Density, and Saturation mail;
- (j) Mail processing unit costs by shape and cost pool for each product and benchmark category;
- (k) Delivery costs by product, shape, presort level, automation compatibility, and machinability, including Detached Address Label cost calculations; and
- (l) **Dropship cost avoidance models.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 503, 3651, 3652, 3653.

### Source

Source: 74 FR 20850, May 5, 2009, unless otherwise noted.