Sec. 201. Performance targets and transparency
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Subchapter VII of chapter 36 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3691 the following: Each year, to ensure that mail service for postal customers meets the service standards for market-dominant products, established under section 3691, the Postal Service shall— at least 60 days before the beginning of the fiscal year in which they will apply, establish and provide to the Postal Regulatory Commission reasonable targets for performance; and provide the previous fiscal years’ performance targets in its Annual Compliance Report to the Postal Regulatory Commission for evaluation of compliance.
The Postal Service shall develop and maintain a publicly available Website with an interactive web tool that provides performance information for market-dominant products that is updated on a weekly basis. The performance information provided on the Website shall include— the type of market-dominant product; geographic area at the nationwide, Area, and District level; time periods showing performance information in annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly segments; comparisons of performance information for market-dominant products for previous time periods to facilitate identification of performance trends; and the current performance targets and previous fiscal year performance targets, established under subsection (a)(1).
The Website shall include plain language descriptions of the elements required under paragraph
(2)and information on the collection process, measurement methodology, completeness, accuracy, and validity of the performance information provided on the Website. The Website shall include functionality to enable a user to search for performance information by street address, ZIP Code, or post office box. The performance information provided on the Website shall be made available— in a manner that— presents the information referenced under paragraph
(2)on an interactive dashboard; is searchable and may be sorted and filtered by the elements described in paragraph (2); and to the extent practicable, enables any person or entity to download in bulk— such performance information; and the results of a search by the elements described in paragraph (2); in an open format that permits any individual or entity to reuse and analyze the performance information; and in a structured data format, to the extent practicable. The Postal Service shall regularly consult with the Postal Regulatory Commission on appropriate features and information to be included on the Website. The Postal Service shall— solicit public input on the design and implementation of the Website; and maintain a public feedback tool, to ensure features of, and information on, the Website is usable and understandable. The Website shall be implemented and made available to the public not later than the date on which the performance targets are provided to the Postal Regulatory Commission under subsection (a)(1). A link and plain language description of the Website shall be made available on the website where the performance targets and measurements established under subsection (a)(1) are made available. The dashboard referred to in paragraph (5)(A)(i) shall be referenced in the Annual Performance Plan under section 2803, the Annual Performance Report under section 2804, and the Annual Report under section 2402. In this subsection— The term performance information means the objective external performance measurements established under section 3691(b)(1)(D). The term Website means the website described in paragraph (1). .