§2804 Program Performance Reports

Summary

The Postal Service must prepare a program performance report every fiscal year and include it in the annual comprehensive statement required under section 2401(e). Each report must show the performance measures from the Postal Service’s performance plan and compare actual results to the goals for that year. If goals are given as “minimally effective” and “successful,” the report must say which category the results fit, or whether they missed both. The report for fiscal year 2000 must show the prior year’s results; the 2001 report must show the two prior years; the 2002 and later reports must show the three prior years. Each report must review how well goals were met, evaluate the current performance plan against the year’s results, explain why any goal was missed, give plans and schedules to meet it or explain why it is impractical and what should be done, and include summary findings from program evaluations done that year.