RESPONSES OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONAL INTERROGATORIES PR/USPS-1 THROUGH 5

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1 Postal Regulatory Commission Submitted 8/19/2011 4:05:58 PM Filing ID: Accepted 8/19/2011 BEFORE THE POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C RETAIL ACCESS OPTIMIZATION INITIATIVE, 2011 Docket No. N S OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONAL INTERROGATORIES PR/USPS-1 THROUGH 5 The United States Postal Service hereby provides institutional responses to the above-listed interrogatories of the Public Representative dated August 12, Each interrogatory is stated verbatim and followed by the response. Respectfully submitted, UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE By its attorneys: Anthony F. Alverno, Jr. Chief Counsel, Global Business 475 L'Enfant Plaza West, S.W. Washington, D.C (202) ; Fax August 19, 2011 Michael T. Tidwell

the above-listed interrogatories of the Public Representative dated August 12, 2011. Each interrogatory is stated verbatim and followed by the response.

2 OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PR/USPS-1 The FDB (Facilities Database) web application contains green and pink information subsets. (a) Please provide a list of all green subset titles. (b) For each green subset title, please provide a list of available information categories. (c) Please provide a list of all pink subset titles (d) For each pink subset title, please provide a list of available information categories. (e) For all green and pink information categories, please provide the originating source of the information. For those who did not attend the August 11 technical conference, various data fields in FDB are represented in columns of links that are either green or pink on the user's computer screen. As reflected in the FDB attachments to this response, there are numerous data sources and data system interfaces.

(c) Please provide a list of all pink subset titles (d) For each pink subset title, please provide a list of available information categories.

3 OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PR/USPS-2 The EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) contains SOX-compliant financial information for each postal retail facility with the appropriate financial number format. (a) Please provide a list of all available information categories. (b) Please provide the originating source of all information categories. See the EDW attachment associated with this response.

number format. (a) Please provide a list of all available information categories.

4 OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PR/USPS-3 The SOV (Small Office Variance) tool is a Postal Service database that provides information on postal retail facility workload. a. Please provide a list of all available information categories. b. Please provide the originating source of all information categories. The attached spreadsheet provides lists of the operations, data elements and data sources in SOV.

Please provide a list of all available information categories. b.

5 OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PR/USPS-4 The CSDC (Change Suspension Discontinuance Center) is a database of postal retail facilities preselected for discontinuance consideration. (a) Please provide a list of all available information categories. (b) Please provide the originating source of all information categories. Data from scores of postal information systems could be imported into CSDC by persons performing analysis or discrete administrative tasks related to the oversight of retail facilities. Accordingly, the originating sources of data contained in CSDC are quite numerous. The attached CSDC spreadsheet gives an indication of the variety of data fields that could populate documents in CSDC.

Data from scores of postal information systems could be imported into CSDC by persons performing analysis or discrete administrative tasks related to the oversight of retail

6 OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PR/USPS-5 Please provide a flowchart or schematic that illustrates the following: (a) How the FDB, EDW, SOV and CSDC databases interact with each other? (b) How the FDB, EDW, SOV and CSDC databases interact with other databases that provide information used to populate each database? (a) Data from EDW, FDB and SOV are utilized in each other's systems. Data from all three systems might find their way into documents compiled or created in CSDC. (b) As indicated by the attachments associated with the responses to PR/USPS-2 through 4, there are numerous postal databases with which FDB, EDW and SOV can interact, many of which have no relevance to issues raised by the request in this proceeding. On an as-needed basis, in response to specific inquiries that follow-up on the August 11 technical conference, the Postal Service is willing to explain system interactions of a material nature that relate to Retail Access Optimization Initiative, to the extent that such information is not apparent from those attachments.

Data from all three systems might find their way into documents compiled or created in CSDC.

RESPONSES OF POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS LEWIS TO INTERROGATORIES OF THE OCA (OCA/USPS-T30-1-7) (May 18, 2005)

RESPONSES OF POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS LEWIS TO INTERROGATORIES OF THE OCA (OCA/USPS-T30-1-7) (May 18, 2005) BEFORE THE POSTAL RATE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20268B0001 Postal Rate Commission Submitted 5/18/2005 3:39 pm Filing ID: 44241 Accepted 5/18/2005 POSTAL RATE AND FEE CHANGES PURSUANT TO PUBLIC LAW 108-18