“On Friday, Valpak submitted its ‘Initial Brief’ to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on the case of the Retail Access Optimization Initiative (RAOI), the Postal Service’s plan to close 3,650 post offices. The brief was prepared by William J. Olson, PC, a Virginia law firm…. Olson himself has written several papers about the postal system, such as ‘Enhancing Competition By Unbundling the Postal Administration,’ which is about ‘bifurcating’ the postal system so that a government-owned agency would take care of delivering the mail (thereby maintaining the universal service obligation), while the receiving and processing component of the system would be privatized. The Valpak brief argues that the PRC should approve the RAOI because it will help ‘the Postal Service’s near-desperate need to achieve increased efficiencies and cost savings’
