39 U.S.C. § 2804 — Program performance reports

(a) The Postal Service must prepare a program-performance report for each fiscal year and include it in the annual comprehensive statement under section 2401(e). (b)(1) The report must list the performance indicators in the Postal Service plan and actual performance compared with that year’s goals. (2) If goals use minimally effective and successful descriptive categories, the report must describe results against those categories, including whether neither category was met. (c) The fiscal-year 2000 report must include the prior fiscal year’s results; the 2001 report must include the two prior years; and the 2002 and later reports must include the three prior years. (d) Each report must (1) review success in achieving that year’s goals; (2) evaluate the current-year plan against performance toward the reported year’s goals; (3) when a goal was not met, including failure to meet the successful-program criteria under section 2803(b)(2), explain (A) why, (B) plans and schedules for achieving it, and (C) if impractical or infeasible, why and what action is recommended; and (4) include summary findings of program evaluations completed during the reported year.