Allegation of Overcharge

A carrier requested reconsideration of a decision which sustained an agency's deduction action to recover an overcharge collected by the carrier on a shipment of household goods owned by a member of the military. The overcharge represented the difference in transportation charges between the amount the carrier collected under Military Rate Tender No. 1-H and that derived from Florida Household Goods Carriers Bureau Tariff 13, the agency's audit basis. The carrier contended that the difference between the services required by the military and those required by commercial shippers dictated that the rates and charges in Tender 1-H applied. GAO held that the differences mentioned by the carrier were contained in the agency regulations or in the Tender of Service which is not a rate tariff. Where a decision-receipient, in its request for reconsideration, merely indicates general disagreement with the results and presents no evidence to demonstrate an error in fact or law or arguments not previously considered, as in this case, the prior decision is affirmed. Accordingly, the prior decision was affirmed.