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Department of Justice
The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Compassionate Release Program
The marketplace for traditional Postal Service products is increasingly competitive. In addition to the long term trend toward electronic media, Postal Service products face intense pressures brought about by the Great Recession. This paper explores an open question raised by these disruptive trends: Are Postal Service customers becoming more price sensitive? Though intuition may suggest that growing competition would have this effect, the answer to this question is best found by letting the data do the talking.
This report summarizes work we initiated and completed during this semiannual period on a number of critical departmental activities. Over the past 6 months, our office issued 18 audit, evaluation, and inspection reports addressing programs overseen by the Economics and Statistics Administration, International Trade Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Department itself.
