In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving Fourth Class Postage Regulations

OPINION AND ORDER TRANSFERRING MULTIDISTRICT CIVIL ACTIONS UNDER SECTION 1407, TITLE 28, UNITED STATES CODE

WEIGEL, Judge of the Panel:

This proceeding involves seventeen actions brought in diverse federal district courts seeking to enjoin the Postmaster General and local postmasters from enforcing certain postal regulations. The contested regulation, 39 C.F.R. § 135.2 (a) (6), requires persons mailing 1,000 or more identical pieces of special fourth class mail per day to separate the pieces according to the first three ZIP-Code digits. Shipments of 1,000 or more nonidentical pieces per day…