An Act to revise, codify, and enact into law, title 39 of the United States Code, entitled ""The Postal Service.""
PL 86-682 (H.R.2339), enacted 09/02/1960

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j revise, codify, and enact into law, title 39 of the United States Code, entitled 
"The Postal Service". 
The Postal Serv-
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E n a c t m e n t as 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the general 
and permanent laws relating to the Post Office Department and the 
Code.* ^^' "'^' postal service are revised, codified and enacted as Title 39, United 
States Code—"The Postal Service", and may be cited as "39 U. S. 
Code, § 
", as follows: 
TITLE 39—THE POSTAL SERVICE 
PAET 
Sec. 
I. GENERAL 
1 
II. FISCAL ADMINISTRATION 
2001 
IIL PERSONNEL 
3101 
IV. MAIL MATTER 
^001 
V. SPECIAL MAIL AND BANKING SERVICE 
5001 
VI. DELIVERY AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES 
6001 
PART I—GENERAL 
CHAPTER 
Sec. 
1. DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION 
1 
3. ORGANIZATION 
301 
5. GENERAI, PBOVISIONS 
501 
7. POST OFFICES 
701 
9. PRIVATE CARRIAGE OF LETTERS 
901 
CHAPTER 1—DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION 
SBC. 
1. Definitions. 
2. Application. 
§ 1. Definitions 
As used in this title— 
"Department" means the Post Office Department, continued by 
section 301 of this title, and the postal field service of the Post Office 
Department; 
"postal field service" or "field postal service" includes all opera-
tions and organization units of the Department, other than the de-
partmental operations and organization units in the headquarters 
offices of the Department at the seat of the Government, and includes 
postal inspectors assigned to the headquarters offices of the Depart-
ment at the seat of the Government; 
"departmental service" means the administrative headquarters of 
the Department and its branches as distinguished from the postal 
field service; 
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"revenue of the Department" means all funds of the United States, 
other than trust funds, received by the Department from any source 
in the exercise of any power or function vested in it, including, but not 
limited to— 
(i) unclaimed money in dead letters for which an owner cannot 
be found; 
(ii) unclaimed money taken from the mail by robbery, theft, 
or otherwise, which may come into the hands of an agent or 
employee of the United States or any other person; 
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(iii) fines, penalties, and forfeitures, imposed for a violation 
of the postal laws, except such part as may by law belong to the 
informer or party prosecuting for the same; 
(iv) money derived from the sale of wastepaper or other public 
property of the Department. 
§ 2. Application 
This title has the same force and effect within Guam as within other 
possessions of the United States. 
CHAPTER 3—ORGANIZATION 
Sec. 
301. Post Office Department. 
302. Postmaster General. 
303. Seal. 
304. Deputy Postmaster General. 
305. Assistant Postmaster General. 
306. Advisory board. 
307. General Counsel. 
308. Chief Postal Inspector. 
309. Delegation of authority. 
§ 301. Post Office Department 
The executive department, known as the Post Office Department, is 
continued at the seat of the Government. 
§ 302. Postmaster General 
The head of the Department is a Postmaster General appointed 
by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 
The Postmaster General is vested with the functions of all subordi-
nate officers and agencies of the Post Office Department. 
His term is 
for the term of the President by whom he is appointed, and for one 
month thereafter. 
§ 303. Seal 
The seal of the Department, filed by the Postmaster General in the 
office of the Secretary of State, which shall be judicially noticed, shall 
be affixed to all commissions of postmasters and other officers of the 
Department and used to authenticate records of the Department. 
§ 304. Deputy Postmaster General 
A Deputy Postmaster General, appointed by the President by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform snch duties 
as the Postmaster General designates. He shall receive the compen-
sation provided by law for undersecretaries of executive departments. 
§ 305. Assistant Postmasters General 
Five Assistant Postmasters General appointed by the President, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such 
duties as the Postmaster General designates. Each shall receive the 
compensation provided by law for the assistant secretaries of executive 
departments. 
§ 306. Advisory board 
The Advisory Board for the Department, of which the Postmaster 
General is chairman and the Deputy Postmaster General is vice 
chairman, is continued. The Board has seven additional members, 
representative of the public, appointed by the President by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate. The members so appointed shall 
each receive compensation of $50 per diem when engaged in duties as 
members of the Board, including travel time to and from their homes 
or regular places of business, and reasonable subsistence and travel 
expense as determined by the Postmaster General. The Board shall 
consider methods and policies for the improvement of the postal 
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service, and shall advise and make recommendations to the Postmaster 
General with resi)ect to such methods and policies. It shall meet 
quarterly in the District of Columbia, or at such other time and place 
as the Postmaster General determines. 
§ 307. General Counsel 
The legal officer of the Department is the General Counsel, who shall 
be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate. 
§ 308. Chief Postal Inspector 
The annual rate of basic compensation of the position of Chief 
Postal Inspector in the Post Office Department is $19,000. 
§ 309. Delegation of authority 
The Postmaster General may delegate to any officer, employee, or 
agency of the Department such of the functions vested by law in nim 
or in anj other officer or employee of the Department as he deems 
appropriate. 
CHAPTER 5—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
See. 
601. General duties of the Postmaster General. 
502. Bonds. 
503. Mall equipment shops. 
604. Research and development program. 
606. International postal arrangements. 
606. International money-order exchanges. 
607. Fees for special services. 
608. Sale of maps, opinions of General Counsel, and transcripts of hearings. 
609. Rewards. 
510. Disposal of wastepaper. 
§ 501. General duties of the Postmaster General 
In addition to his other duties the Postmaster General shall— 
(1) prescribe rules and regulations that he deems necessary to 
accomi)lish the objectives of this title; 
(2) instruct all persons in the Department with reference to 
their duties; 
(3) decide on the forms of all official papers of the Depart-
ment, except as otherwise provided by law; 
(4) investigate postal offenses and civil matters relating to the 
Department; 
(5) superintend generally the business of the Department and 
execute all laws relating to the Department. 
§ 502. Bonds 
(a) The Postmaster General shall cause postmasters, acting post-
masters, and other officers and employees designated by him, to 
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be bonded in accordance with section 14 of title 6 in such sum as he 
prescribes. 
(b) When a new bond is made covering a postmaster, acting post-
master, officer, or employee, payments thereafter made by him may 
be applied first to discharge balances due from him under the prior 
bond, if the Postmaster General deems it just. 
§ 503. Mail equipment shops 
The Postmaster General may maintain a mail equipment shop in 
the District of Columbia. 
§ 504. Research and development program 
(a) The Postmaster General shall maintain in the Department a 
research and development program, including investigations and 
studies, for the purpose of introducing or improving equipment, sup-
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plies, methods, procedures, means, and devices used in the Department 
m order that its business may be more efficiently and economically 
operated. 
(b) The Postmaster General, pursuant to section 686 of title 31, 
or other applicable law, may utilize the research and testing facili-
ties of the National Bureau of Standards and procure advice and 
assistance from any department or independent establishment in 
the executive branch of the Government. 
§ 505. International postal arrangements 
(a) For the purpose of making better postal arrangements with 
other countries, or to counteract their adverse measures affecting our 
postal intercourse with them, the Postmaster General, by and with 
the advice and consent of the President, may negotiate and conclude 
postal treaties or conventions, and may reduce or increase the rates 
of postage or other charges on mail matter conveyed between the 
United States and other countries. The decisions oi the Postmaster 
General construing or interpreting the provisions of any treaty or 
convention which has been or may oe negotiated and concluded shall, 
if approved by the President, be final and conclusive upon all officers 
of the United States. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall transmit a copy of each postal 
convention concluded with other governments to the Secretary of 
State, who shall furnish a copy of the same to the Public Printer 
for publication. 
The Department shall revise the printed proof 
sheets of all such conventions. 
§ 506. International money-order exchanges 
The Postmaster General may make arrangements with other gov-
ernments, with which postal conventions are or may be concluded 
for the exchange of sums of money by means of postal orders. He 
shall fix the rates of exchange. A postal order may not exceed $100 
in amount. 
§ 507. Fees for special services 
The Postmaster General may prescribe from time to time the fees 
which shall be charged by the postal service, and the manner in which 
they shall be collected, for— 
(1) the registry of mail; 
(2) the insurance of mail, or other indemnification of senders 
thereof for articles damaged or lost; 
(3) securing a signed receipt upon the delivery of mail and 
returning such receipt to sender; 
(4) certified mail service; 
(5) collect-on-delivery service; 
(6) special-delivery service; 
(7) special-handling service; 
(8) receipt or certificate showing mailing of registered, insured, 
certified, collect-on-delivery, and ordinary mail; 
(9) the issue of money orders; 
(10) notice to publishers of undeliverable second class mail, for 
notice of change of address, and notice to addressee or sender of 
undeliverable third or fourth class mail, or of undeliverable 
second class mail mailed at the transient rate. 
(11) for returning undeliverable letters and parcels from the 
dead letter office to senders. 
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§ 508. Sale of maps, opinions of General Counsel, and tran-
scripts of hearings 
The Postmaster General may sell, at such rates as he determines 
to be fair and reasonable, but not exceeding the cost thereof— 
(1) post route and rural delivery maps; 
(2) opinions of the General Counsel; and 
(3) transcripts of hearings before the Department. 
§ 509. Rewards 
The Postmaster General may offer and pay rewards for information 
and services in connection with violations of the postal laws. 
§ 510. Disposal of wastepaper 
The Postmaster General, subject to the provisions of sections 366-
380 of title 44, may sell as wastepaper or otherwise dispose of the 
files of papers that are not needed in the transaction of current 
business and have no permanent value or historical interest. 
CHAPTER 7—POST OFFICES 
Sec. 
701. Establishment and discontinuance of post offices. 
702. Classes of post offices. 
703. Distributing offices; clerk hire. 
704. Reimbursement for equipment on discontinuance of office. 
705. Branch post offices and stations. 
706. Postal agencies In other countries. 
707. Hours of service. 
708. Box rents to be prepaid. 
709. Arrival and departure of mail. 
710. Mailing up mail. 
711. Method of determining gross receipts. 
712. Armed Forces postal clerks. 
§ 701. Establishment and discontinuance of post offices 
(a) The Postmaster General may— 
(1) establish post offices as he deems expedient: 
(2) discontinue post offices when the efficiency of the service 
requires or revenues are endangered from any cause; and 
(3) consolidate post offices, except as provided in subsec-
tion (b) of this section. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not discontinue post offices at 
county seats as a result of a consolidation. This subsection does not 
apply to— 
(1) Cambridge, Massachusetts; or 
(2) Towson, Maryland; or 
(3) Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri. 
§ 702. Classes of post offices 
At the beginning of each fiscal year, the Postmaster General shall 
divide post offices into four classes on the basis of gross annual postal 
receipts for the preceding calendar year. 
He shall place in the first 
class those post offices at which those receipts are $40,000 or more. 
He shall place in the second class those post offices at which those 
receipts are $8,000 or more, but less than $40,000. He shall place 
in the third class those post offices at which those receipts are $1,500 
or more, but less than $8,000. He shall place in the fourth class 
those offices at which those receipts for each of two consecutive calen-
dar years are less than $1,500, or where in any calendar year those 
receipts are less than $1,400. 
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§ 703. Distributing offices; clerk hire 
When the Postmaster General designates an office of the fourth 
class as distributing or separating offices he may make allowances to 
the postmaster for the necessary cost of clerical services arising from 
the duties involved. 
§ 704. Reimbursement for equipment on discontinuance of office 
The Postmaster General shall reimburse, on a fair and equitable 
basis, the postmaster of any discontinued post office of the first, second 
or third class for equipment and fixtures that were— 
(1) furnished by the postmaster; 
(2) necessary to the efficient operation of the post office; and 
(3) in use in the post office at the time of discontinuance. 
§ 705. Branch post offices and stations 
(a) The Postmaster General may establish branch post offices within 
the delivery limits of a post office for the receipt and delivery of 
mail, and the performance of other postal functions. 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Postmaster 
General may not establish stations, substations, or branches of a 
post office beyond the corporate limits or boundaries of a village, 
town, or city in which the principal office is located. 
(c) The Postmaster General may establish stations, substations, or 
branches of a post office within 10 miles of the outer boundary or 
limits of a village, town, or city having 1,500 or more inhabitants and 
in which the principal office is located. 
(d) The Postmaster General may establish branch post offices at 
camps, posts or stations of the Armed Forces and at defense or other 
strategic installations. 
(e) The Postmaster General may establish branch offices, non-
accounting offices, or stations of the Honolulu, San Juan, and Char-
lotte Amalie post offices, respectively, in (1) Hawaii, (2) the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, and (3) the Virgin Islands. 
Offices and 
stations so established shall be conducted under the name of the exist-
ing post office so as to maintain the identity of the office concerned. 
(f) The Postmaster General may enter into contracts for the con-
duct of contract stations in accordance with section 2011 of this title. 
(g) This section does not apply to rural stations established under 
authority of section 6005 of this title. 
§ 706. Postal agencies in other countries 
When in his judgment the efficiency of the international postal 
service will be thereby promoted, the Postmaster General may estab-
lish postal agencies at seaports or airports in other countries at which 
United States mail steamers or aircraft arrive and receive mails. 
He 
may pay the postal agents employed thereat a reasonable compensa-
tion for their services, in addition to the necessary expenses for office 
rent, office furniture, clerk hire, and incidental expenses. 
§ 707. Hours of service 
(a) The Postmaster General shall require at least one person to 
be on duty at each post office during such hours of each day as he 
directs, to perform the functions of the office. 
(b) Post offices of the first and second classes shall not be open on 
Sundays for the purpose of delivering mail, other than special de-
livery mail. 
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§ 708. Box rents to be prepaid 
(a) Patrons shall pay rent on post office boxes in advance on a 
quarterly basis. 
(b) The Postmaster General may permit patrons to provide lock 
boxes or drawers for their own use and at their own expense, which 
shall become the property of the United States subject to the direc-
tion and control of the Department. 
The patrons shall pay the same 
rent as that charged for similar boxes provided by the Department. 
§ 709. Arrival and departure of mail 
The Postmaster General shall furnish to the postmasters at the 
terminals of each route— 
(1) a schedule of arrivals and departures of mail at their 
offices; and 
(2) notice of any change in the arrival and departure that 
may be ordered. 
Postmasters shall post the schedules and notices in a conspicuous place 
in their offices. 
§ 710. Making up mail 
Letters brought for mailing to a post office half an hour before the 
time for tlie next forwarding mail shall be included therein unless, 
in the opinion of the Postmaster General, more time for making up 
the mail is required, they may be included in mail to be forwarded not 
more than one hour thereafter. 
§ 711. Method of determining gross receipts 
(a) In determining gross receipts at post offices of the fourth class, 
the Postmaster General shall allow credit only for the postage col-
lected in addition to the regular rate on business reply cards and let-
ters in business reply envelopes delivered at those offices. 
(b) The gross receipts do not include money received for— 
(1) setting meters for patrons beyond the area served by his 
office unless authorized hj the Department; 
(2) stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards sold in large 
or unusual quantities to be used in mailing matter at other offices; 
and 
(3) stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards sold for mail-
ing matter diverted from other offices, and mailings of matter 
so diverted without stamps affixed. 
(c) The part of the gross postal receipts of a post office, that are 
determined in accordance with estimates of the Postmaster General 
to be attributable to the increases in postage rates provided by Public 
Law 85-426, may not be counted for the purpose of determining the 
classes of the respective post offices and the compensation and allow-
ances of postmasters and other employees whose compensation or 
allowances are based on the annual gross receipts of such post offices. 
This section does not operate to relegate a post office to a class or 
receipts category below the class or receipts category to which it may 
be assigned on the basis of gross postal receipts accruing during the 
last complete calendar year prior to May 27,1958, or, in the case of a 
post office which was in existence on that date but which was not in 
existence during the whole of that calendar year, on the basis of gross 
postal receipts accruing during the last quarter prior to May 27,1958. 
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§ 712. Armed Forces postal clerks 
(a) Upon selection by the Secretaries of the Departments con-
cerned, the Postmaster General may designate Armed Forces postal 
clerks, and assistant Armed Forces postal clerks from enlisted per-
sonnel of the— 
(1) Army of the United States; 
(2) United States Navy; 
(3) Air Force of the United States; 
(4) United States Marine Corps; and 
(5) United States Coast Guard, 
including their reserve components. 
(b) Armed Forces postal clerks and assistant Armed Forces postal 
clerks designated under authority of subsection (a) of this section 
shall— 
(1) receive and open all pouches and sacks of mail addressed 
to the post offices, stations, vessels and installations of the organ-
izations listed in subsection (a) of this section; 
(2) make delivery of the mail; 
( 3) receive matter for transmission in the mail; 
(4) receipt for registered mail; 
(5) sell postage stamps; 
(6) make up and dispatch mail; and 
(7) perform any other postal duties that may be authorized 
by the Postmaster General in accordance with such regula-
tions as may be prescribed by the appropriate 
authority 
of the organizations listed in subsection (a) of this section. 
(c) Each clerk or assistant clerk appointed under authority of this 
section shall— 
(1) take the oath of office prescribed for members of the field 
postal service; 
(2) be covered by a bond in such penal sum as the Postmaster 
General deems sufficient for the faithful performance of his 
duties as postal clerk or assistant postal clerk, unless bonding is 
waived by the Secretary of the Department concerned; ana 
(3) be amenable in all respects to the discipline of their re-
spective services, except as provided in subsection (d) of this 
section. 
(d) The commanding officer having jurisdiction over a post office, 
station, vessel, or installation where Armed Forces postal clerks or 
assistant Armed Forces postal clerks are stationed shall require them 
to be governed by the postal laws and the postal regulations. When-
ever he deems it necessary a commanding officer may require any 
assistant Armed Forces postal clerk to perform the duties of an 
Armed Forces postal clerk. 
(e) The Secretary of the Department concerned may terminate any 
bond covering any Armed Forces postal clerk or assistant Armed 
Forces postal clerk without affecting the liability of any person or 
surety thereunder for losses or shortages occurring prior to such 
termination. 
(f) The Departments of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury 
shall reimburse the Post Office Department annually in an amount of 
money equal to— 
(1) funds and the value of other accountable postal stock 
embezzled by, or lost through the negligence, errors, or defalca-
tions on the part of— 
(A) unbonded Armed Forces postal clerks or assistant 
Armed Forces postal clerks or persons acting in that 
capacity; or 
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(B) commissioned or warrant officers of the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who have been 
designated custodians of postal effects by the appropriate 
commanding officer. 
(2) funds expended by the Post Office Department in payment 
of claims arising through negligence, errors, losses, or defalca-
tions by persons listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection, 
(g) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury 
shall take action to recover from the persons responsible for the losses 
or shortages the amounts paid under the provisions of this section. 
CHAPTER 9—PRIVATE CARRIAGE OF LETTERS 
Sec. 
901. Letters carried out of the mail. 
902. Foreign letters out of the mails. 
903. Searches authorized. 
904. Seizing and detaining letters. 
905. Searching vessels for letters. 
906. Disposition of seized mail. 
§ 901. Letters carried out of the mail 
(a) A letter may be carried out of the mails when— 
(1) it is enclosed in an envelope; 
(2) the amount of postage which would have been charged 
on the letter if it had been sent by mail is paid by stamps, or 
postage meter stamps, on the envelope; 
(3) the envelope is properly addressed; 
(4) the envelope is so sealed that the letter cannot be taken 
from it without defacing the envelope; 
(5) any stamps on the envelope are canceled in ink by the 
sender; and 
(6) the date of the letter, of its transmission or receipt by the 
carrier is endorsed on the envelope in ink. 
(b) The Postmaster General may suspend the operation of any part 
of this section upon any mail route where the public interest requires 
the suspension. 
§ 902. Foreign letters out of the mails 
(a) Except as provided in section 901 of this title the master of 
a vessel departing from the United States for foreign ports may 
not receive on board or transport any letter which originated in the 
United States that— 
(1) has not been regularly received from a United States post 
office; or 
(2) does not relate to the cargo of the vessel. 
(b) The officer of the port empowered to grant clearances, shall 
require from the master of such a vessel, as a condition of clearance, 
an oath that he does not have under his care or control, and will not 
receive or transport, any letter contrary to the provisions of this 
section. 
(c) Except as provided in section 1699 of title 18, the master of a 
vessel arriving at a port of the United States carrying letters not 
regularly in the mails shall deposit them in the Post Office at the 
port of arrival. 
§ 903. Searches authorized 
The Postmaster General, by letter of authority filed in the Depart-
ment, may authorize any postal inspector or other officer of the Depart-
ment to make searches for mailable matter transported in violation of 
law. When the authorized officer has reason to oelieve that mailable 
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matter transported contrary to law may be found therein, he may 
open and search any— 
(1) vehicle passing, or having lately passed, from a place 
at which there is a post office of the United States; 
(2) article being, or having lately been, in the vehicle; 
(3) store or office, other than a dwelling house, used or occupied 
by a common carrier or transportation company, in which an 
article may be contained. 
§ 904. Seizing and detaining letters 
A postal inspector, customs officer, or United States marshal 
or his deputy, may seize at any time, letters and bags, packets 
or parcels containing letters which are being carried contrary to law 
on board any vessel or on any post road. The officer who makes the 
seizure shall convey the articles seized to the nearest post office; or 
by direction of the Postmaster General or the Secretary ot the 
Treasury, he may detain them until two months after the final determi-
nation of all suits and proceedings which may be brought within six 
months after the seizure against any person for sending or carrying 
the letters. 
§ 905. Searching vessels for letters 
A postal inspector when instructed by the Postmaster General 
to make examinations and seizures and any customs officer without 
special instructions shall search vessels for letters which may be 
on board, or which may have been conveyed contrary to law. 
§ 906. Disposition of seized mail 
Every package or parcel seized by a postal inspector, customs offi-
cer, or United States marshal or his deputies, in which a letter is un-
lawfully concealed, shall be forfeited to the United States. The same 
proceedings may b^ used to enforce forfeitures as are authorized in 
respect of goods, wares, and merchandise forfeited for violation of 
the revenue laws. Laws for the benefit and protection of customs 
officers making seizures for violating revenue laws apply to officers 
making seizures for violating the postal laws. 
PART II—FISCAL ADMINISTRATION 
CHAPTER 
Sec. 
21. 
CONTBACTS 
2001 
23. 
PBOPEBTY 
2101 
25. 
FUNDS AND ACCOUNTING 
2201 
27. 
POSTAL POLICY AND FISCAL REPORTS 
2301 
29. 
DEBTS AND COLLECTIONS 
2401 
31. 
STAMPS AND STAMPED PAPEB 
2501 
CHAPTER 21—CONTRACTS 
Sec. 
2001. Purchase or rental of equipment and supplies. 
2002. Bonds and contracts. 
2003. Purchase of supplies. 
2004. Contracts for envelopes and other supplies. 
2005. Contracts for money order supplies. 
2006. Contracts for rental of equipment and services. 
2007. Purchase of motor-truck parts. 
2008. Hire of vehicles from employees. 
2009. Contracts for delivery of special delivery mail. 
2010. No postal material or supplies manufactured by convict labor. 
2011. Contracts for postal stations. 
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§ 2001. Purchase or rental of equipment and supplies 
The Postmaster General may provide by purchase, rental, or other-
wise, necessary equipment and supplies to carry out the provisions of 
this title. 
§ 2002. Bonds and contracts 
Bonds taken and contracts entered into by the Department shall be 
in the name of the United States of America. 
§ 2003. Purchase of supplies 
(a) The Postmaster General, in making purchases for equip-
ment and supplies necessary for the Department, shall advertise as 
provided by law and award contracts therefor to the lowest respon-
sible bidder. He shall solicit separate proposals and make separate 
contracts for each class furnished. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall record an abstract of all bids 
for furnishing supplies to the Department, stating the 
(1) name of the party biddmg; 
(2) terms of the offer; and 
(3) sum to be paid. 
He shall keep on file and preserve all bids until the end of the con-
tract term to which they relate. These records shall be open at all 
times for inspection by Congress, and by those who are interested in 
the contracts. 
(c) The Postmaster General shall permit each bidder to be present, 
either in person or by attorney, when the bids are opened, and to 
examine all bids. 
§ 2004. Contracts for envelopes and other supplies 
(a) The Postmaster General may contract, for a period not to 
exceed four years, for— 
(1) stamped envelopes for sale to the public; 
(2) envelopes for use by the executive departments and 
agencies, subject to applicable regulations under section 481 of 
63 Stat. 383. 
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(3) postal cards and stamps; 
(4j miscellaneous equipment and supplies for the Field Postal 
Service; and 
(5) printing of post-route maps. 
(b) "When the Postmaster General determines the interests of the 
Department require it. all adhesive stamps prescribed by him may be 
manufactured by the Department of the Treasury, in conformity with 
an agreement satisfactory to both the Postmaster General and the 
Secretary of the Treasury. 
§ 2005. Contracts for money order supplies 
Except when he procures them from the Government Printing Office, 
the Postmaster General shall obtain money order supplies in accord-
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ance with the provisions of section 5 of title 41. He shall solicit sepa-
rate proposals for each item. He shall enter into contracts for a 
period of not more than four years containing such conditions as he 
may prescribe. 
§ 2006. Contracts for rental of equipment and services 
(a) The Postmaster General, after advertising, may enter into 
contracts for a period of not more than four years for— 
(1) the rental of canceling machines; 
(2) the hire of vehicles for the City Delivery Service; 
(3) collection service by means of boxes attached to street 
cars; and 
(4) the operation of the Detroit River Postal Service. 
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(b) The Postmaster General may not pay more than $270 a year 
for the rental and repairs of each canceling machine. 
§ 2007. Purchase of motor-truck parts 
The Postmaster General may make agreements without advertising 
with motor vehicle manufacturers for the purchase of parts for non-
passenger motor vehicles under such arrangement as he deems most 
advantageous to the Government at prices not in excess of the 
manufacturer's list price less regular discounts. 
§ 2008. Hire of vehicles from employees. 
The Postmaster General may hire, by contract or on an allowance 
basis, vehicles from postal employees, other than supervisors, for use 
in the city and village delivery, including special delivery services, 
and for the collection of mail. 
§ 2009. Contracts for delivery of special delivery mail 
The Postmaster General, when he deems it expedient, may contract 
for the immediate delivery of all special delivery mail from any post 
office at any price less than eight cents per piece. 
§ 2010. No postal material or supplies manufactured by convict 
labor 
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§ 2011. Contracts for postal stations 
The Postmaster General may enter into contracts for the conduct 
of contract stations for a term not exceeding three years. He may 
renew contracts at the same or lower contract price, for additional 
terms not exceeding three years unless 
(1) he finds that the renewal is not in the interest of the 
United States, or 
(2) not later than ninety days before the end of a contract 
term the Department receives a request in writing that the con-
tract be opened for competitive bidding at the end of the term. 
Upon such a finding by him, or upon receipt of such a request, the 
Postmaster General shall terminate the contract, with respect to which 
the finding has been made or the request has been received, at the 
end of the current term and shall advertise for bids thereon in accord-
ance with the existing laws relating to the advertising of public con-
tracts and the award thereof on the basis of competitive bidding. 
CHAPTER 
23—PROPERTY 
SPC. 
2301. Gifts, donations of services and property. 
2102. Leases. 
2103. Additional leasing authority. 
2104. Space procurement by lease-purchase agreements. 
2105. Development of existing sites and property. 
2106. Use of rental funds. 
2107. Congressional approval. 
2108. Lease-purchase agreement provisions. 
2109. Time limitations on agreements. 
2il0. Taxes and rental adjustments. 
2111. Property title. 
2112. Advertisement. 
2113. Receipts from disposal of property. 
2114. Nonapplicability of statutes. 
211.5. Purpose. 
2116. Annual report. 
§ 2101. Gifts, donations of services and property 
The Postmaster General may accept gifts and donations of services 
and property in aid of the activities of the Department. 
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§ 2102. 
Leases 
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law the Postmaster 
Greneral may lease, on such terms as he deems appropriate, real prop-
erty necessary in the conduct of the affairs of the Department. 
(b) The term of a lease may not exceed twenty years when made 
for quarters— 
(1) for post offices of the first, second and third classes; 
(2) for terminal railway post offices; and 
(3) at public airports. 
(c) The Postmaster General may rent quarters for postal purposes 
without entering into a formal written contract where the amount 
of the rental does not exceed $1,000 per annum. 
(d) When a leased building or part thereof becomes unfit for 
use for the purpose rented, the Postmaster General may not pay rent 
until it is put in satisfactory condition by the lessor, or at his option 
he may cancel the lease. 
§ 2103. Additional leasing authority 
(a) In addition to the authority vested in him by section 2102 of 
this title the Postmaster General may— 
(1) negotiate and enter into lease agreements which do not bind 
the Government for periods exceeding thirty years, on such terms 
as the Postmaster General deems to be in the best interests of the 
United States, for the erection by the lessor of the buildings and 
improvements for postal purposes as the Postmaster General 
deems appropriate, on lands sold, leased, or otherwise disposed 
of by the Postmaster General to, or otherwise acquired by, the 
lessor; 
(2) for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection, and 
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without regard to sections 630-630h of title 5, sections 471-475,481, 
583;' 58 Stat. 770.' 
483^92, and 511-514 of title 40, sections 5, 153, and 251-255, 
257-260 of title 41, sections 391-401 of title 44, and section 1622 of 
title 50, appendix— 
(A) acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease, donation, 
or otherwise, and on such terms as he deems appropriate 
to the best interests of the United States, real property and 
interests therein, for use for postal purposes; and 
(B) dispose of real property, and interests therein, 
acquired for use or used for postal purposes by sale, lease, or 
otherwise, on such terms as he deems appropriate to the best 
interests of the United States. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not, for the purpose of this section, 
dispose of (1) any Government-owned property, or interests therein, 
^If ^*a^I' ^^^' '^ acquired pursuant to section 352 of title 40 or (2) any Government-
owned property, or interests therein, acquired pursuant to law prior 
to July 22,1954, on which there has been constructed a building to be 
used for postal purposes and which is presently being used for those 
purposes. 
(c) Funds available to the Department for the payment of rents 
may be utilized by the Postmaster General for the purposes of this 
section. 
§ 2104. Space procurement by lease-purchase agreements 
Whenever the Postmaster General determines that— 
(1) there is a substantial need for space for postal purposes 
in any particular area which cannot be satisfied by utilization 
of any existing property suitable for the purpose then owned 
by the Government, 
(2) the receipts of the post office serving the area exceed 
$10,000 per year, and 
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(3) the best interests of the United States will be served by 
taking action hereunder, 
he may obtain and provide space for postal purposes in suitable struc-
tures of permanent-type construction in the several States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the Territories and possessions of the United 
States by negotiating and entering into lease-purchase agreements, 
the terms of which may not be less than ten nor more than twenty-
tive years and which shall provide in each case that title to the prop-
erty shall vest in the United States at or before the expiration of the 
leasehold term and upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions stipu-
lated in each lease-purchase agreement. 
The terms and conditions 
shall provide for the application to the purchase price agreed upon 
therein of rental payments made thereunder. 
The payments under 
an agreement may include amounts for the amortization of the fair 
market value on the date of the agreement of the property described 
therein. 
The financial transactions of the Department with respect 
to lease-purchase agreements are subject to the accounting and audit-
ing requirements of sections 2202, 2206-2208, and 2211 of this title. 
§ 2105. Development of existing sites and property 
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Post-
master General may exercise the powers granted in section 2104 of 
this title with respect to existing properties, including those for which 
conversions, additions, extensions, or remodeling may be required, 
and properties upon which construction is to be subsequently 
effected in pursuance of the terms of applicable lease-purchase agree-
ments. 
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Post-
master General may— 
(1) enter into agreements to effectuate any of the purposes 
of this section, and 
(2) bring about the development and improvement of any 
land purchased by the United States for postal purposes, includ-
ing the demolition of obsolete and outmoded structures situate 
thereon, by providing for the construction thereon by others of 
such structures and facilities as are the subject of the applicable 
lease-purchase agreement. 
(c) This section does not authorize the Postmaster General to enter 
into lease-purchase agreements with respect to any site owned by the 
Government which was acquired pursuant to law prior to July 22, 
1954, on which there has been constructed a building to be used for 
postal purposes and which was being used for those purposes on 
July 22, 1954. 
§ 2106. Use of rental funds 
The Postmaster General may use funds available to the Department 
for the payment of rents to make payments becoming due from time 
to time from the United States in jiursuance of lease-purchase agree-
ments entered into under the authority of sections 2104 and 2105 of this 
title. He may not expend the funds for acquisition of title to the 
property covered by any lease-purchase agreement prior to the expira-
tion of the leasehold term specified therein, whether W exercise of 
option to purchase or otherwise, in the absence of specific appropria-
tion of funds for the acquisition. 
Appropriations for acquisition purposes are hereby authorized. 
§ 2107. Congressional approval 
Appropriations may not be made for lease-purchase projects which 
have not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Committees on 
Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives, respec* 
tively, before July 22,1957. For the purpose of securing considera-
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tion of the approval the Postmaster General shall transmit to those 
Committees a prospectus of the proposed project, including, but not 
limited to— 
(1) a brief description of the building located or to be erected 
at a given location; 
(2) an estimate of the maximum cost of site and building 
together with the term of years over which payments would run 
and the maximum rate of interest that would be acceptable for 
any deferred part of the cost; 
(3) a certificate of need for the space signed by the head of 
the agency which will use the facility ; 
(4) a statement by the Postmaster General that suitable space 
owned by the Government is not available and that suitable 
rental space is not available at a price commensurate with that 
to be afforded through the contract proposed: 
(5) a statement of the managerial, custodial, heat and utility 
services to be provided by the contractor, or an estimate of their 
probable cost if to be supplied in any part by the Government; 
(6) a statement of the requirements for tax liability, upkeep 
and maintenance of the property by either the contractor or the 
Government during the period of the contract; 
(7) a statement of rents and other housing costs currently 
being paid by the Government for any agencies to be housed in 
the building to be erected; and 
(8) a statement in writing by the Director of the Bureau of 
the Budget that the project is necessary and in conformity with 
the policy of the President. 
The statement by the Director shall 
be based on budgetary and related considerations and does not 
constitute approval by the Director- of the specific terms or pro-
visions of any proposed agreement or of the selection of any 
particular contractor or lessor. 
§ 2108. Lease-purchase agreement provisions 
(a) Each lease-purchase agreement shall include such provisions 
as the Postmaster General deems to be in the best interest of the 
United States and appropriate to secure the performance of the obli-
gations imposed upon the party that enters into an agreement with the 
United States. The agreement may not provide for any payment to 
be made by the United States in excess of the amount necessary, as 
determined by the Postmaster General, to— 
(1) amortize— 
(A) the cost of improvements to be constructed plus the 
fair market value, on the date of the agreement, of the site, 
if owned or acquired by the contractor, or 
(B) the fair market value, on the date of the agreement, 
of completed improvements together with the site thereof, or 
(C) a combination of the foregoing in the case of existing 
improvements to be remodeled by the contractor; and 
(2) provide a reasonable rate of interest on the outstanding 
principal as determined under item (1) of this subsection, and 
(3) reimburse the contractor for the cost of any other obliga-
tions assumed by him under the contract, including, but not 
limited to, payment of taxes, costs of carrying appropriate in-
surance, and costs of repair and maintenance if assumed by the 
contractor. 
(b) Each lease-purchase agreement entered into pursuant to sec-
tions 2104 and 2105 of this title shall provide for equal annual pay-
ments for the amortization of principal with interest thereon. 
The 
Postmaster General may not enter into the contract unless the amount 
of the annual payment required by it plus the aggregate of the an-
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nual payments required by all other lease-purchase agreements entered 
into during the same fiscal year do not exceed the specific limitations 
on the payments which are provided in appropriation acts. 
§ 2109. Time limitations on agreements 
Agreements may not be entered into under sections 2103-2105 of 
this title after July 22, 1964. 
§ 2110. Taxes and rental adjustments 
(a) An interest in real property acquired under the provisions 
of sections 2104 and 2105 of this title, is subject to State and local taxes 
until title passes to the Government of the United States. 
(b) The Postmaster General may, at the time he enters into a 
lease-purchase or lease agreement under authority of 
sections 
2103-2105 of this title, include a provision for adjustment of the 
rental paid to a lessor to compensate for an increase or decrease 
in taxes on the leased property. 
§ 2111. Property title 
(a) The Postmaster General shall take title, on behalf of the United 
States, to all real property purchased by him under authority of sec-
tions 2103-2105 of this title. 
(b) Section 175 of title 50 applies to the acquisition in fee simple 
of real property under sections 2103-2105 of this title, except that 
a lease-purchase agreement to acquire real property under sections 
2104 and 2105 of this title may be entered into and placed in effect 
after request for but prior to receipt of an opinion of the Attorney 
General with respect to the validity of title to the real property de-
scribed therein. 
§ 2112. 
Advertisement 
Section 5 of title 41 applies— 
(1) to the acquisition of real property by lease-purchase agree-
ments, under authority of sections 2104 and 2105 of this title, 
and 
(2) to the lease agreements entered into under authority of 
item (1) of section 2103 (a) of this title. 
§ 2113. Receipts from disposal of property 
(a) Amounts received by the Government from disposals of prop-
erty acquired under authority of sections 2103-2116 of this title m 
the performance by the Postmaster General of the functions vested 
in him by sections 2103-2116 of this title shall be credited to the cur-
rent applicable appropriation of the Department and shall be avail-
able for expenditure for the purposes of sections 2103-2116 of this 
title. Any amount received by the Postmaster General from the sale 
of such property, under authority of sections 2103-2116 of this title, 
which exceeds the amount paid therefor from the appropriations for 
the Department, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 
(b) Amounts received by the Postmaster General from 
the 
disposal of real property acquired by the Government under authority 
of the Public Buildings Act of May 25,1926 (44 Stat. 630), as amendedf, 
and the Public Buildings Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 176), as amended, notes 
which may be transferred to the Postmaster General, shall be disposed 
of in accordance with the provisions of sections 303b, 345, or 485 of 
title 40, whichever section may be applicable. 
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§ 2114. Nonapphcability of statutes 
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Sections 34 and 259 of title 40, and sections 12 and 14 of title 41, 
and any other provision of law, except applicable labor standards 
provisions, relating to the acquisition or disposal of real property, 
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construction of buildings, or leasing of space, do not apply to any of 
the functions performed by the Postmaster General m effectuating 
the purposes of sections 2103-2116 of this title, except as provided by 
sections 2111 and 2112 of this title. 
§ 2115. 
Purpose 
Sections 2103-2116 of this title supplement other provisions of 
law for the leasing of space for postal purposes by providing authori-
zation for the acquisition by the Postmaster General of space 
through the execution of lease-purchase and other agreements under 
which the United States will obtain immediate use of the space and 
will make periodic payments, and in the case of lease-purchase agree-
ments will obtain title to the property described therein at or prior to 
the end of the term prescribed therein. 
Sections 2104-2108 of this 
title do not constitute a substitute for or a replacement of any program 
for the construction by the United States of such structures as may be 
required from time to time by the postal service. 
§ 2116. Annual report 
The Postmaster General shall include in his annual report an ac-
count of transactions conducted during the applicable year pursuant 
to the provisions of sections 2103-2105 of this title. 
CHAPTER 
25—FUNDS 
AND ACCOUNTING 
GENERAL 
Sec. 
2201. Appiopriation for the Department. 
2202. Post Office Department fund. 
2203. Reimbursement of appropriations. 
22U4. Cbaiges against postal revenues. 
2205. Date of orders, entries, contracts. 
2206. Audit by General Accounting Office. 
2207. Administrative accounting. 
2:i08. System of accounting and control. 
2209. Responsibility of postmasters. 
2210. Withholding compensation of postmasters. 
2211. Administrative examination of accounts. 
2212. Continuance of disbursing officer's accounts and issuance of checks. 
POSTAL MODERNIZATION FUND 
2231. Establishment of fund. 
2232. Appropriations to fund. 
2233. Expenditures from fund. 
2234. Management of fund. 
§ 2201. Appropriation for the Department 
Confess shall appropriate the revenue of the Department, not 
otherwise obligated by law, to the extent necessary for the operation 
of the Department. 
§ 2202. Post Office Department fund 
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall maintain a revolving fund, 
known as the Post Office Department fund. He shall deposit in the 
fund, subject to withdrawal by check by the Postmaster General— 
(1) amounts requisitioned by the Postmaster General against 
appropriations available to the Department out of the general 
fund of the Treasury; and 
(2) amounts from the revenue of the Department, includ-
ing any excess of funds accrued because of money orders remain-
ing unpaid, that the Postmaster General may pay into the fund. 
(b) The Postmaster General may, within limits of appropriations 
and subject to provisions of appropriation or other laws limiting 
expenditures or authorizing appropriations, use the funds of the 
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Department, from whatever source derived, in the exercise of any 
power or function vested in him. 
(c) The Postmaster General may use any appropriation of the 
Department for the payment of expenses for attendance at meetings 
of teclmical, scientific, professional, or similar organizations con-
cerned with the function or activity for which the appropriation is 
made. 
§ 2203. Reimbursement of appropriations 
(a) Collections resulting from damage to Government-owned vehi-
cles operated by the Department shall be credited by the Postmaster 
General to applicable appropriations and shall be available for meet-
ing repair cost of damaged vehicles. 
(b) Collections from the sale of leather, metal, canvas cuttings 
and old canvas resulting from the manufacture and repair of mail 
bags and locks shall be credited by the Postmaster General to appli-
cable appropriations and shall be available for meeting the cost of 
the manufacture and repair. 
§ 2204. Charges against postal revenues 
(a) The Postmaster General shall pay indemnities for the loss of or 
damage to registered, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and the 
expense of manufacturing embossed stamped envelopes, printed or 
unprinted, from postal revenue. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall pay money orders from the 
receipts representing the face value of money orders issued. 
§ 2205. Date of orders, entries, contracts 
An officer or employee who— 
(1) makes an order, entry or memorandum on which an action 
is to be based, allowance made, or money paid; or 
(2) enters into a contract or other obligation on behalf of the 
Department; or 
(3) files or receives on behalf of the Department any paper 
relating to contracts or allowances 
shall indicate thereon the date of the action. 
§ 2206. Audit by General Accounting Office 
The General Accounting Office shall audit the financial transactions 
of the Department in accordance with such principles and procedures 
and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller 
General. To the fullest extent practicable, as determined by the 
Comptroller General, all accounts of accountable officers, contracts, 
vouchers, or other documents that are required by law to be sub-
mitted to the General Accounting Office shall be retained in the De-
partment and the audit shall be conducted at the places where the 
accounts of the Department are normally kept in accordance with 
the determinations of the Postmaster General. The representatives 
of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, 
accounts, financial records, reports, files, and other papers, or prop-
erty belonging to or in use by the Department and necessary to facili-
tate the audit, and shall have full facilities for verifying transactions 
with the balances or securities held by depositaries, fiscal agents, and 
custodians. In the determination of the auditing procedures to be fol-
lowed and the extent of the examination of vouchers and other docu-
ments, the Comptroller General shall give due regard to the adequacy 
of the system of accounts and internal control maintained by the 
Department and to generally accepted principles of auditing. 
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§ 2207. Administrative accounting 
(a) The Postmaster General shall perform all functions relating 
to the Department with respect to— 
(1) the maintenance of administrative appropriation and fund 
accounts; 
(2) accounts receivable and payable; 
(3) allotment controls; 
(4) the preparation of financial and statistical reports; 
(5) the preaudit of expenses; and 
(6) related administrative, accounting, and reporting func-
tions. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall provide for such preaudit of 
expenses as he deems necessary. 
§ 2208. System of accounting and control 
(a) The Postmaster General shall establish and maintain a system 
of accounting conforming to accounting principles and standards 
prescribed by the Comptroller General, and a system of internal con-
trol providing for— 
(1) adequate accounting and internal control, including ap-
propriate provisions for internal audit over and accountability 
for all funds, property and other assets for which the Depart-
ment is responsible; 
(2) assembling of financial information needed for manage-
ment purposes; and 
(3) full disclosure of the financial results of the operations 
of the Department. 
(b) Officers and employees of the Department shall render ac-
counts required by the Postmaster General in such form and with 
such certificate as he prescribes. 
(c) The Comptroller General shall cooperate with the Postmaster 
General in the establishment of the accounting system provided for 
by subsection (a) of this section and shall approve the system when 
he deems it to be in conformity with the accounting principles and 
standards prescribed by him under such subsection. 
§ 2209. Responsibility of postmasters 
(a) A postmaster is responsible for— 
(1) the due performance of the duties including the collection 
of the revenue of the post office; and 
(2) the safekeeping of all monies, accountable paper, and 
other property of the post office, or coming into the custody of 
the office. 
(b) Postmasters shall keep all money collected at a post office, or 
which may come into the custody of a post office, without— 
(1) loaning; 
(2) using J 
(3) depositing in an unauthorized bank; or 
(4) exchanging for other funds; 
until it is required, by order or regulation of the Postmaster General, 
to be transferred or paid out. 
(c) A postmaster at an office in a city or town where there is no 
designated depository may make temporary deposits of money in 
his custody, in a national bank or State bank— 
(1) in the State where the postmaster resides; or 
(2) in the State in which the post office is located; or 
(3) within a reasonable radius of his post office in an adjacent 
State. 
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The postmaster shall make the deposits in his official capacity and 
at his own risk. Interest may not be paid or received on a deposit 
made in accordance with this subsection. 
(d) Except when an acting postmaster has been appointed under 
section 3315 (c) of this title a postmaster shall be responsible for acts 
of— 
(1) persons acting in his place during his absence; and 
(•2) assistants and other employees in the post office, its 
branches and stations. 
§ 2210. Withholding compensation of postmasters 
When the Postmaster General is satisfied that a postmaster has 
made a false statement of account, he may withhold compensation on 
the account and allow such compensation as he deems proper under 
the circumstances. 
§ 2211. Administrative examination of accounts 
The Postmaster General shall designate the places where the De-
partment will coiiduct administrative examination of the accounts 
of its officers and employees. With the concurrence of the Comp-
troller General, the Postmaster General may waive administrative 
examination, in whole or in part, when it is determined that the 
other accounting and audit procedures of the Department adequately 
protect the interests of the United States. 
§ 2212. Continuance of disbursing officer's accounts and issuance 
of checks 
^a) In case of the death, resignation, or separation from office of the 
disDursing officer for the Post Office Department his accounts may 
be continued and payments made in his name by the assistant dis-
bursing officers designated by the Postmaster General or designated 
by any official of the Post Office Department authorized by the Post-
master General to make such a designation, for a period of time not 
to extend beyond the last day of the second month following the 
month in which the death, resignation or separation occurs. 
The 
accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled and 
the checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer for the 
Post Office Department shall be honored in the same manner as if the 
former disbursing officer for the Post Office Department had continued 
in office. 
(b) A former disbursing officer for the Post Office Department, 
his estate, or the surety on his official bond, is not subject to legal 
liabilitv or penalty for the official accounts and defaults of the assist-
ant disbursing officers acting in the name or in the place of the former 
disbursing officer, but the assistant disbursing officers and their sureties 
are responsible therefor. 
POSTAL MODERNIZATION FUND 
§ 2231. Establishment of Fund 
There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund 
to be known as the "Postal Modernization Fund". 
§ 2232. Appropriations to Fund 
There are authorized to be appropriated and paid into the Fund 
such sums as may be necessary during each fiscal year, beginning 
with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959 and ending with the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1961, to carry out the purposes of section 2233 
of this title. 
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§ 2233. Expenditure from Fund 
Moneys paid into the Fund, together with any income thereof 
under section 2234 (b) of this title or otherwise, shall be available 
until expended for obligation by the Postmaster General for the 
purpose of conducting research, either directly or through private 
or other organizations, and for the purpose of developing, acquiring, 
and placing into operation improved equipment and facilities for the 
performance of the postal function. 
§ 2234. Management of Fund 
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall hold the Fund, and after 
consultation with the Postmaster General report to the Congress not 
later than the first day of January of each year on the financial 
condition of the Fund as of the end of the next preceding fiscal year. 
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest such portion of the 
Fund as is not, in his judgment, after consultation with the Post-
master General, required to meet current withdrawals. 
Investments 
may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States 
or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the 
United States. 
CHAPTER 27—POSTAL POLICY AND FISCAL REPORTS 
POSTAL POLICY 
Sec. 
2301. Findings of Congress. 
2302. Declaration of policy. 
2303. Identification of and appropriations for public services, 
2304. Reviews, studies, surveys, and reports of Postmaster General. 
2305. Effect on fourth class mail rates. 
2306. Costs for establishing postal rates. 
REPORTS 
2331. Cost Ascertainment. 
2332. Postal Modernization Fund. 
§ 2301. Findings of the Congress 
The Congress hereby finds that— 
(1) the postal establishment was created to unite more closely 
the American people, to promote the general welfare, and to ad-
vance the national economy; 
(2) the postal establishment has been extended and enlarged 
through the years into a nationwide network of services and facil-
ities for the communication of intelligence, the dissemination of 
information, the advancement of education and culture, and the 
distribution of articles of commerce and industry. Furthermore, 
the Congress has encouraged the use of these broadening services 
and facilities through reasonable and, in many cases, special 
postal rates; 
(3) the development and expansion of these several elements of 
postal service, under authorization by the Congress, have been the 
impelling force in the origin and growth of many and varied busi-
ness, commercial, and industrial enterprises which contribute 
materially to the national economy and the public welfare and 
which depend upon the continuance of these elements of postal 
service; 
(4) historically and as a matter of public policy there have 
evolved, in the operations of the postal establishment authorized 
by the Congress, certain recognized and accepted relationships 
among the several classes of mail. It is clear, from the continued 
expansion of the postal service and from the continued encourage-
ment by the Congress of the most widespread use thereof, that 
the postal establishment performs many functions and oiBPers its 
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facilities to many users on a basis which can only be justified as 
being in the interest of the national welfare; 
(5) while the postal establishment, as all other Government 
agencies, should be operated in an efficient manner, it clearly is 
not a business enterprise conducted for profit or for raising gen-
eral funds, and it would be an unfair burden upon any particular 
user or class of users of the mails to compel them to bear the 
expenses incurred by reason of special rate considerations granted 
or facilities provided to other users of the mails, or to under-
write those expenses incurred by the postal establishment for 
services of a nonpostal nature; and 
(6) the public interest and the increasing complexity of the 
social and economic fabric of the Nation require an immediate, 
clear, and affirmative declaration of congressional policy with 
respect to the activities of the postal establishment including 
those of a public service nature as the basis for the creation and 
maintenance of a sound and equitable postal-rate structure which 
will assure efficient service, produce adequate postal revenues, and 
stand the test of time. 
§ 2302. Declaration of policy 
(a) The Congress hereby emphasizes, reaffirms, and restates its func-
tion under the Constitution of the United States of forming postal 
policy. 
(b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress, as set 
forth in sections 2301-2305 of this title— 
(1) that the post office is a public service; 
(2) to provide a more staole basis for the postal-rate struc-
ture through the establishment of general principles, standards, 
and related requirements with respect to the determination and 
allocation of postal revenues and expenses; and 
(3) in accordance with these general principles, standards, and 
related requirements, to provide a means by which the postal-
rate structure may be fixed and adjusted by action of the Con-
gress, from time to time, as the public interest may require, in 
the light of periodic reviews of the postal-rate structure, periodic 
studies and surveys of expenses and revenues, and periodic re-
ports, required to be made by the Postmaster General as pro-
vided by section 2304 of this title. 
(c) The general principles, standards, and related requirements 
referred to m subsection (b) of this section are as follows: 
(1) In the determination and adjustment of the postal-rate 
structure, due consideration should be given to— 
(A) the preservation of the inherent advantages of the 
postal service in the promotion of social, cultural, intellec-
tual, and commercial intercourse among the people of the 
United States; 
(B) the development and maintenance of a postal service 
adapted to the present needs, and adaptable t6 the future 
needs, of the people of the United States; 
(C) the promotion of adequate, economical, and efficient 
postal service at reasonable and equitable rates and fees; 
(D) the effect of postal services and the impact of postal 
rates and fees on users of the mails; 
(E) the requirements of the postal establishment with re-
spect to the manner and form of preparation and presenta-
tion of mailings by the users of the various classes of mail 
service; 
(F) the value of mail; 
(G) the value of time of delivery of mail; and 
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(H) the (][uality and character of the service rendered m 
terms of priority, secrecy, security, speed of transnussion, 
use of facilities and manpower, and other pertinent service 
factors. 
(2) The acceptance, transportation, and delivery of first class 
mail constitutes a preferred service of the postal establishment 
and, therefore, the postage for first class mail should be sufficient 
to cover (A) the entire amount of the expenses allocated to first 
class mail in accordance with sections 2301-2305 of this title and 
(B) an additional amount representing the fair value of all ex-
traordinary and preferential services, facilities, and factors re-
lating thereto. 
(3) Those services, elements of service, and facilities rendered 
and provided by the postal establishment in accordance with law, 
including services having public service aspects, w^hich, in whole 
or in part, are held and considered by the Congress from time to 
time to be public services for the purposes of sections 2301-2305 
of this title shall be administered on the following basis: 
(A) the sum of such public service items as determined 
by the Congress should be assumed directly by the Federal 
Government and paid directly out of the general fund of the 
Treasury and should not constitute direct charges in the form 
of rates and fees upon any user or class of users of such public 
services, or of the mails generally; and 
(B) nothing contained in any provision of section 2301-
2305 of this title should be construed as indicating any inten-
tion on the part of the Congress (i) that such public services, 
or any of them, should be limited or restricted or (ii) to dero-
gate in any way from the need and desirability thereof in the 
public interest. 
(4) Postal rates and fees shall be adjusted from time to time as 
may be required to produce the amount of revenue approxi-
mately equal to the total cost of operating the postal establish-
ment less the amount deemed to be attributable to the performance 
of public services under section 2303 (b) of this title. 
§ 2303. Identification of and appropriations for public services 
(a) The following shall be considered to be public services for the 
purposes of sections 2301-2305 of this title— 
(1) the total loss resulting from the transmission of matter in 
the mails free of postage or at reduced rates of postage as provided 
by statute, including the following: 
(A) reduced rates for certain publications as provided 
by sections 4359 and 4360 of this title; 
(B) penalty mailings of the Pan American Union and 
the Pan American Sanitary Bureau as provided by section 
4152 (a) of this title; 
(C) free-in-county mailing of publications as provided 
by section 4358 of this title; 
(D) free postage and reduced postage rates on reading 
matter and other articles for the blind as provided by sec-
tions 4653 and 4654 of this title; 
(E) free mailing privileges for members of the diplomatic 
corps of the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas 
and Spain as provided by section 4167 of this title; 
(F) free mailing privileges granted to individuals by the 
Act of May 7, 1945 (59 Stat. 707) and other provisions of 
law; 
(G) reduced third-class postage rates to certain organiza-
tions as provided by section 4452 of this title; 
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(H) section 302 of The Federal Voting Assistance Act of 
1955 (5 U. S. C. 2192), granting free postage, including free 
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airmail postage, to post cards, ballots, voting instructions, 
and envelopes transmitted in the mails under authority or 
that Act; and 
(I) reduced postage rates on books, films, and similar 
educational material as provided by section 4554 of this 
title. 
(2) the loss resulting from the operation of such prime and 
necessary public services as the star route system and third and 
fourth class post offices; 
(3) the loss incurred in performing nonpostal services, such as 
the sale of documentary stamps for the Department of the 
Treasury; 
(4) the loss incurred in performing special services such as 
cash on delivery, insured mail, special delivery, and money orders; 
and 
(5) the additional cost of transporting United States mail by 
foreign air carriers at a Universal Postal Union rate in excess 
of the rate prescribed for United States carriers. 
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the revenues 
of the Post Office Department for each fiscal year from any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated an amount, which shall be 
deemed to be attributable to the public services enumerated under 
subsection (a) of this section, equal to the total estimated expendi-
tures of the Post Office Department for the year for such public serv-
ices as determined by the Congress in the appropriation Act based 
upon budget estimates submitted to the Congress. The appropria-
tions shall be available to enable the Postmaster General to pay in to 
postal revenues at quarterly or other intervals such sums as may be 
necessary to reimburse the Post Office Department for the amount 
attributable to public services. 
§ 2304. Reviews, studies, surveys, and reports of Postmaster 
General 
(a) The Postmaster General shall initiate and conduct, through the 
facilities of the postal establishment, either on a continuing basis or 
from time to time, as he deems advisable, but not less often than every 
two years, a review of the postal-rate structure and a studj^ and survey 
of the expenses incurred and the revenues received in connection with 
the several classes of mail, and the various classes and kinds of services 
and facilities provided by the postal establishment, in order to deter-
mine, on the basis of the review^, study, and survey for each class and 
kind of service or facility provided by the postal establishment, the 
need for adjustment of postal rates and fees in accordance with the 
policy set forth in sections 2301-2305 of this title. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall submit to the Senate and the 
House of Representatives not later than April 15 of each alternate 
fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, a 
report of the results of the review, study, and survey conducted pur-
suant to subsection (a) of this section which includes— 
(1) information with respect to expenses and revenues which 
is pertinent to the allocation of expenses and the determination 
and adjustment of postal rates and fees in accordance with the 
policy set forth in sections 2301-2305 of this title; and 
(2) such other information as is necessary to enable the Con-
gress, or as may be required by the Congress or an appropriate 
committee thereof, to carry out the purposes of sections 2301-
2305 of this title. 
70 Stat. 747. 
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§ 2305. Effect on fourth class mail rates 
The provisions of sections 2301-2304 of this title do not require 
any downward adjustment in rates of postage on fourth class mail 
existing on May 27,1958. 
§ 2306. Costs for establishing postal rates 
The amounts contributed by the Post Office Department to the civil 
service retirement and disability fund in compliance with section 
2254 (a) of title 5 are considered as costs of providing postal service 
for the purpose of establishing postal rates. 
REPOKTS 
§ 2331. Cost ascertainment 
(a) The Postmaster General shall ascertain and state annually the 
revenues derived from and the cost of— 
(1) carrying and handling the several classes of mail matter; 
and 
(2) performing special services. 
(b) The appropriations of the Department, as determined by the 
Postmaster General, shall be available for cost of supervising or con-
ducting the studies required by this section. 
§ 2332. Postal Modernization Fund 
The Postmaster General shall include in his annual report to the 
President for each year a detailed report of his activities during the 
year under sections 2231-2234 of this title. 
CHAPTER 29—DEBTS AND COLLECTIONS 
See. 
2401. Collection of debts. 
2402. Transportation of international mail by air carriers of the United States. 
2403. Adjustment of claims of postmasters and Armed Forces postal clerks. 
2404. Penalty for failure to render accounts. 
2405. Deficiency in accounts. 
2406. Limitation of action against sureties. 
2407. Penalties and forfeitures imposed for violations. 
2408. Suits to recover wrongful or fraudulent payments. 
2409. Settlement of claims for damages caused by Post OflBce Department and 
services. 
2410. Delivery of stolen money to owner. 
2411. Substitute checks. 
§ 2401. Collection of debts 
(a) The Postmaster General shall— 
(1) collect debts due the Department; and 
(2) collect and remit fines, penalties, and forfeitures arising 
out of matters affecting the Department. 
He may refer any debt, which is uncollectible through administrative 
action, to the General Accounting Office for collection. 
This subsection does not affect the authority of the Attorney Gen-
eral in cases in which judicial proceedings are instituted. 
(b) In all cases of disability or alleged liability for any sum of 
money by way of damages or otherwise, under any provision of law 
in relation to the officers, employees, operations, or business of the 
Postal Service, the Postmaster General shall determine whether the 
interests of the Department probably require the exercise of his powers 
over the same. Upon the determination the Comptroller General, 
with the written consent of the Postmaster General and on such terms 
as the Postmaster General deems just and expedient, may— 
(1) remove the disability; or 
(2) compromise, release, or discharge the claim for such sum 
of money and damages. 
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(c) Subsection (b) applies to cases involving balances due the 
United States through accountability for public moneys under any 
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rovisions of law in relation to the officers, employees, operations, or 
usiness of the Postal Service, except cases cognizable under section 
2403 of this title. 
§ 2402. Transportation of international mail by air carriers of 
the United States 
(a) The Postmaster General may offset against any balances due 
another country resulting from the transaction of international money 
order business, or otherwise, amounts due from that country to the 
United States, or to the United States for the account of air carriers 
of the United States transporting mail of that country, when— 
(1) the Postmaster General puts into effect rates of compen-
sation to be charged another country for transportation; and 
(2) the United States is required to collect from another 
country the amounts owed for transportation for the account of 
the air carriers. 
(b) When the Postmaster General has proceeded under authority 
of subsection (a), he shall— 
(1) give appropriate credit to the country involved; 
(2) pay to the air carrier the portion of the amount so credited 
which is owed to the air carrier for its services in transporting 
the mail of the other country; and 
(3) deposit in the Department fund that portion of the 
amount so credited which is due the United States on its own 
account. 
(c) The l*ostmaster General, from time to time may advance to 
an air carrier, out of funds available for payment of balances due 
other countries, the amounts determined by him to be due from 
another country to an air carrier for the transportation of its mails 
when— 
(1) collections are to be made by the United States for the 
account of air carriers; and 
(2) the Postmaster General determines that the balance of 
funds available is such that the advances may be made there-
from. 
Collection from another country of the amount so advanced shall 
be made by offset, or otherwise, and the appropriation from which 
the advance is made shall be reimbursed by the collections made by 
the United States. 
(d) If the United States is unable to collect from the debtor coun-
tiy an amount paid or advanced to an air carrier within twelve months 
after payment or advance has been made, the United States may 
deduct the uncollected amount from any sums owed by it to the air 
carrier. 
(e) The Postmaster General shall adopt such accounting proce-
dures as may be necessary to conform to and effect the purposes of 
this section. 
§ 2403. Adjustment of claims of postmasters and Armed Forces 
postal clerks 
(a) When the Postmaster General determines, after investigation, 
that any of the following losses has resulted without negligence of 
a postmaster, Armed Forces postal clerk, or assistant Armed Forces 
postal clerk, he may, subject to subsections (b)—(d) of this section, 
pay or credit the postmaster, Armed Forces postal clerk, or assistant 
Armed Forces postal clerk, the sum he ascertains to be the amount of— 
(1) the loss of funds or valuable papers from their official 
custody resulting from burglary, fire, or unavoidable casualty; 
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(2) the loss of funds deposited in National or State banks; 
(3) the loss of funds remitted in accordance with instruc-
tions of the Department in the form of drafts or checks which 
have been returned unpaid or disallowed by reason of the clos-
ing of the bank issuing the drafts or checks; 
(4) a remittance of funds or accountable papers, made in com-
pliance with instructions of the Department, which are lost, 
stolen or destroyed— 
(A) while in transit to a desi^ated depository; or 
(B) after arrival at the depository, and before the deposi-
tory has become responsible therefor; and 
(5) authorized sums of postage and other stamped stock or 
accountable paper lost while in transit by mail to or from— 
(A) postmasters or employees; or 
(B) the Department. 
(b) Claims of postmasters, Armed Forces postal clerks and assist-
ant Armed Forces postal clerks outside the continental United States 
for losses occurring while the United States is at war may be pre-
sented within two years from the time the loss occurred. 
All other 
claims under this section must be presented within six months from 
the time when the loss occurred. 
(c) Claims in excess of $10,000 for losses covered by this section 
may not be paid or credited until an appropriation has been made 
therefor. 
(d) This section does not apply to claims for losses— 
so Stat, 479. 
(j) coguizable under sections 134-134h of title 5; 
(2) by Armed Forces postal clerks or assistant Armed Forces 
postal clerks for stamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards and 
other stamped paper supplied them by the Department of Defense 
and not by the Post Office Department, nor to funds received 
from the sale of the same. 
§ 2404. Penalty for failure to render accounts 
When a postmaster neglects to render his accounts for one month 
after the time and in the form and manner prescribed by law and the 
regulations of the Postmaster General, he and his sureties shall forfeit 
and pay double the amount of the gross receipts at his office for the 
period, estimated on the basis of any previous or subsequent equal 
period of time. 
If the postmaster or his sureties fail to pay the 
amount of the forfeiture, the Postmaster General shall request the 
Attorney General to bring an action on the bond of the postmaster. 
If, at the time of trial, no account has been rendered, the postmaster 
and his sureties shall be liable in double the amount estimated by the 
court or jury to be the gross postal receipts. 
§ 2405. Deficiency in accounts 
The Postmaster General shall mail a notice to the last known ad-
dresses of the sureties of a postmaster who fails to make good a de-
ficiency discovered in his accounts. 
Failure to mail the notice to the 
sureties does not discharge them on the bond. 
§ 2406. Limitation of action against sureties 
Sureties on the bond of a postmaster may be sued for deficiencies in 
his account only within three years after settlement of the account. 
§ 2407. Penalties and forfeitures imposed for violations 
Unless a different disposal is expressly prescribed, one-half of all 
penalties and forfeitures imposed for violations of law affecting 
the Department, its revenues or property, shall be paid to the person 
informing and prosecuting for the same. The other one-half shall be 
paid into the postal revenues. 
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§ 2408. Suits to recover wrongful or fraudulent payments 
The Postmaster General shall request the Attorney General to 
bring a suit to recover with interest any payment made from moneys 
of, or credit granted by, the Department or postal savings system as a 
result of— 
(1) mistake; 
(2) fraudulent representations; 
(3) collusion; or 
(4) misconduct of an officer or employee of the Department. 
§ 2409. Settlement of claims for damages caused by Post Office 
Department and services 
When the Postmaster General finds a claim for damage to persons 
or property resulting from the operation of the Department to be a 
proper charge against the United States, and it is not cognizable under 
section 2672 of title 28, he may adjust and settle it in an amount not 
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exceeding $500. 
§ 2410. Delivery of stolen money to owner 
When the Postmaster General is satisfied that money or property 
in the possession of the Department represents money or j)roperty 
stolen from the mails, or the proceeds thereof, he may deliver it to the 
person he finds to be the rightful owner. 
§ 2411. Substitute checks 
(a) The Postmaster General may authorize the issuance of a sub-
stitute check for a lost, stolen or destroyed check of the Department. 
Substitute checks shall— 
be marked "Duplicate"; 
show the number, date, and payee of the ori^nal. 
(b) The Postmaster General may authorize the issuance of the 
substitute check (1) upon the execution of a bond agreeable to the 
Postmaster General by the owner, or (2) without bond, upon the 
affidavit of the payee or owner of the original check when the Post-
master General is satisfied that the loss, theft or destruction occurred 
without the fault of the owner or holder or while the check was in 
the custody or control of the Department or in the mails. 
(c) Subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of section 528 of title 31 do 
not apply to checks of the Department. 
CHAPTER 
31—STAMPS 
AND 
STAMPED 
PAPER 
Sec. 
2501. Postage stamps. 
2502. Double postal cards, letter-sheet envelopes, double-letter envelopes. 
2.'i03. Postal cards and stamped envelopes. 
2504. Improvements in stamps and envelopes. 
2505. Sale of postage due stamps. 
2506. Printing of black-and-white illustrations of United States stamps. 
2507. Stamps to be defaced. 
2508. Permits for special canceling of postmarking dies. 
2509. Special cancellation "Pray for peace". 
2510. Printing on stamped envelopes. 
§ 2501. Postage stamps 
The Postmaster General may issue appropriate stamps in such de-
nomination, form and design, and at such times as he deems necessary, 
for use in payment of postage or fees for special services. He shall 
issue postage due stamps of special design and in the denomination 
he deems necessary to be affixed to short paid mail. Postage due 
stamps shall be canceled as other postage stamps. 
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§ 2502. Double postal cards, letter-sheet envelopes, double-
letter envelopes 
(a) The Postmaster General may furnish for public use, with 
postage stamps printed or impressed thereon, double postal cards, 
letter-sheet envelopes, and double-letter envelopes. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not make payments for royalty 
or patent right on any of the articles named in this section. 
§ 2503. Postal cards and stamped envelopes 
(a) The Postmaster General shall furnish for public use postal 
cards and envelopes with postage stamps printed or impressed thereon. 
(b) Stamped envelopes shall be sold as nearly as possible at cost, 
but not less than cost. Cost includes the value of the postage stamps, 
salaries and clerk hire, and other expenses connected therewith. 
§ 2504. Improvements in stamps and envelopes 
The Postmaster General may adopt such improvements in postage 
stamps and stamped envelopes as he deems advisable. When an im-
provement is adopted it shall be subject to all the provisions of law 
respecting postage stamps or stamped envelopes. 
§ 2505. Sale of postage due stamps 
(a) Postage due stamps may not be sold by any postmaster nor 
received by him in prepayment of postage or fees for special services. 
(b) The Postmaster General may designate agencies of the Depart-
ment where postage due stamps may be sold for philatelic purposes 
only. 
§ 2506. Printing of black-and-white illustrations of 
United 
States stamps 
(a) When requested by the Postmaster General, the Public Printer 
shall print as a public document for sale by the Superintendent of 
Documents, illustrations in black and white of postage stamps of the 
United States, together with such descriptive, historical, and philatelic 
information with regard to the stamps as the Postmaster General 
deems suitable. 
28 Stat. 608. 
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 58 of title 44, stere-
otype or electrotype plates, or duplicates thereof, used in the publica-
tions authorized to be printed by this section may not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of. 
§ 2507. Stamps to be defaced 
(a) The Postmaster General shall direct the manner in which 
postage stamps on mail matter shall be canceled and may furnish 
necessary equipment and supplies therefor. 
(b) The Postmaster General may furnish to post offices postage 
stamps precanceled with the name of the post office at which they 
are to be used imprinted thereon. 
(c) The Postmaster General may issue permits to persons using 
stamped envelope and postal cards to precancel the postage stamps 
thereon. 
§ 2508. Permits for special canceling or postmarking dies 
(a) In post offices of the first and second class the Postmaster 
General may permit, for a period of six months and the duration of 
the event to be advertised, the use of special canceling stamps or post-
marking dies for advertising purposes when the event to be 
advertised-j-
(1) is for a national purpose for which Congress has made an 
appropriation; or 
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(2) is of general public interest and importance and is to 
endure for a definite period of time and is not to be conducted 
for private gain or profit. 
(b) The permittee shall prepay all expenses for the purchase, 
adapting or installing special canceling stamps or postmarking dies. 
(c) The Postmaster General may revoke permits granted under 
this section when he finds it expedient or necessary to use special 
canceling stamps or postmarking dies for governmental purposes. 
§ 2509. Special cancellation "Pray for peace" 
The Postmaster General may provide for the use in post offices of 
the first and second class of a special canceling stamp or postmarking 
die bearing the words "Pray for peace". 
§ 2510. Printing on stamped envelopes 
The Postmaster General may not sell stamped envelopes contain-
ing any lithographing or engraving, printing or advertising, other 
than the usual request for return of the envelope to the sender. 
PART III—PERSONNEL 
CHAPTER 
41. GENERAL PROVISIONS 
3101 
43. APPOINTMENT AND ASSIGNMENT OF FIELD SERVICE EMPLOYEES 
3301 
45. COMPENSATION IN THE POSTAL FIELD SERVICE 
3501 
CHAPTER 41—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 
3101. Definitions. 
EMPLOYEES GENERALLY 
3103. Oath of office. 
3104. No employee to receive fees. 
3105. Detail of employees between field and department. 
SPECIAL CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES 
3111. Residence of postal transportation clerks. 
3112. Inspectors may administer oaths. 
3113. Rural carriers to furnish equipment. 
3114. Rural carriers not to carry merchandise. 
3115. Special delivery messengers as employees or carriers. 
3116. Uniforms and badges. 
§ 3101. 
Definitions 
As used in this part— 
(1) "employee", unless the context otherwise indicates, includes 
postmasters, officers, supervisors, and all other persons employed in 
the postal field service, regardless of title, other than persons who 
provide services for the Department on a fee, contract, job, or piece-
work basis; 
(2) "position" means the duties and responsibilities assigned to 
an employee, other than duties performed on a fee, contract, job, or 
piecework basis; 
(3) "key position" means an existing position, described in sections 
3511-3531 of this title; 
(4) "salary level" means the numerical standing in the Postal 
Field Service Schedule assigned to a position in the postal field 
service; 
(5) "basic salary" means the rate of annual or hourly compensa-
tion specified by law, exclusive of overtime, night differential, and 
longevity compensation; and 
(6) "basic compensation" means basic salary plus longevity com-
pensation. 
57 Stat. 196. 
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(7) "assigned to road duty" as used in reference to employees in 
the Motor Vehicle Service means assignment to a Motor Vehicle 
Service route which is not less than fifty miles in length one way. 
EMPLOYEES GENERALLY 
§ 3103. Oath of office 
Before entering upon their duties, and before receiving any 
salary, the Postmaster General, and all persons employed in the De-
partment, in addition to any other oath or affirmation required by law, 
shall respectively take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: 
"I, do hereby solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) 
that I will faithfully perform all the duties required of me and abstain 
from everything forbidden by the laws in relation to the establishment 
of post offices and post roads within the United States; and that I 
will honestly and truly account for and pay over any money belonging 
to the said United States which may come into my possession or con-
trol; and I also further swear (or affirm) that I will support the 
Constitution of the CJnited States; so help me God." 
A person authorized to administer oaths by the laws of the 
United States, including section 16a of title 5, or of a State or 
Territory, or an officer, civil or military, holding a commission under 
the United States may administer and certify the oath or affirmation. 
§ 3104. Employees not to receive fees 
An officer or employee of the Department may not receive any fee 
or perquisite from a patron of the Department on account of the 
duties performed by virtue of his appointment, except as authorized 
by law. 
§ 3105. Detail of employees between field and department 
With the consent of the employee, the Postmaster General may 
detail any employee, including an employee of the departmental 
service, between the postal field service and the departmental service 
to such extent as may be necessary to develop a more efficient working 
force and more effectively to perform the work of the Department. 
Each detail shall be made for a period of not more than one year and 
may be made without change in compensation of the employees so 
detailed. 
SPECIAL CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES 
§ 3111. Residence of postal transportation clerks 
Clerks appointed to the Postal Transportation Service to perform 
duty on railway post offices shall reside at some point on the route to 
which they are assigned unless they are authorized by the Postmaster 
General to reside at some other convenient point. 
§ 3112. Inspectors may administer oaths 
Postal inspectors may administer oaths required or authorized by 
law or regulation with respect to any matter coming before them in the 
performance of their official duties. 
§ 3113. Rural carriers to furnish equipment 
Rural carriers shall furnish, for prompt handling of the mail, 
necessary vehicles and such other equipment as the Postmaster General 
requires. 
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§ 3114. Rural carriers not to carry merchandise 
Rural carriers may not solicit business or receive orders for any 
person. The Postmaster General may permit them to carry merchan-
dise for hire during their hours of duty for and at the request of 
patrons residing on their routes. 
§ 3115. Special delivery messengers as employees or carriers 
(a) A person temporarily employed to deliver special delivery 
mail is deemed an employee of the postal service, and is subject to 
the provisions of chapter 83 of title 18 to the same extent as other j s use i69i et 
employees of the Department. 
(b) Any person, when engaged in carrying special delivery mail 
under contract with the Department, or employed by the Department, 
is deemed a carrier or person entrusted with the mail and having 
custody thereof, within the meaning of sections 1701,1708, and 2114 of 
title 18. 
§ 3116. Uniforms and badges 
(a) The Postmaster General may prescribe a uniform dress to be 
worn by letter carriers. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not require employees in the 
Postal Transportation Service to wear any uniform other than cap or 
badge. 
CHAPTER 
43—APPOINTMENT AND ASSIGNMENT OF 
FIELD SERVICE EMPLOYEES 
ESTABLISHMENT OF POSITIONS 
Sec. 
3301. Personnel requirements. 
3302. Substitute positions. 
POSTMASTERS 
3311. Method of apiwintment. 
3312. Residence requirements. 
3313. Appointment in f 
ourtli class offices in Alaska. 
3314. Status on change in class of office. 
3315. Filling vacancies. 
3316. Designation of persons to act during absence. 
3317. Leave without pay for military service. 
ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES 
3331. Duty station. 
3332. Assignment to branches and stations. 
3333. Transfer of postal transportation employees. 
3334. Transfer of ten-point preference eligibles. 
3335. Dual employment and extra duties. 
3336. Detail to stations of Armed Forces. 
3337. Promotions and assignment of rural carriers. 
3338. Filling vacancies on rural routes. 
3339. Consolidation of rural routes. 
ESTABLISHMENT OF POSITIONS 
§ 3301. Personnel requirements 
The Postmaster General shall determine the personnel require-
ments of the postal field service, and fix the numoer of supervisors 
and other employees in that service, except that there may not be at 
any one time more than— 
(1) one assistant postmaster employed at any post office; 
(2) 40 employees in positions assigned to salary level 17; 
(8) 12 employees in positions assigned to salary level 18; 
^4) four employees in positions assigned to salary level 19; or 
(5) 15 employees in positions assigned to salary level 20. 
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§ 3302. Substitute positions 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section the Postmaster 
General shall prescribe the conditions under which substitutes may 
be appointed. 
(b) The Postmaster General may appoint not more than one career 
substitute to five regular employees, or fraction thereof, in any of the 
following categories. 
(1) postal transportation clerks; 
(2) post office clerks; 
(3) city letter carriers; 
(4) village letter carriers; 
(5) mail handlers; 
(6) watchmen; 
(7) messengers; 
(8) employees of the Motor Vehicle Service. 
(c) In post offices having fewer than five regular employees, the 
Postmaster General may appoint one career substitute clerk, carrier, 
and employee in the Motor Vehicle Service. 
(d) The Postmaster General may not appoint additional career 
substitutes until the ratios prescribed by this section are established. 
(e) The Postmaster General may not furlough or dismiss a career 
substitute in the categories covered by this section to meet requirements 
of this section. 
POSTMASTERS 
§ 3311. Method of appointment 
(a) The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate, shall appoint postmasters at post offices of the first, second, and 
third classes in the competitive civil service without term. He shall 
make the appointments in accordance with the Civil Service Act and 
rules by— 
(1) competitive examinations; or 
(2) promotion from within the postal service. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall appoint postmasters at post 
offices of the fourth class without term. 
§ 3312. Residence requirements 
(a) A person is not eligible for appointment as postmaster at a post 
office of the first, second, or third class unless he has actually resided 
within the delivery of that post office, or within the city or town where 
it is situated, for one year next preceding— 
(1) the date fixed for the close of receipt of applications for 
examination, if the appointment is made by competitive exami-
nation ; or 
(2) the appointment, if the appointment is made without com-
petitive examination. 
(b) The residence requirements of subsection (a) of this section 
may be waived whenever the Civil Service Commission finds that 
peculiar local conditions preclude or render impossible the applica-
tion of the requirement. In that case the Commission may examine 
and certify for appointment or promotion persons who reside in such 
areas adjacent to, or surrounding, the delivery zone of the post office 
as may be fixed by the Commission. 
(c) Every postmaster shall reside within the delivery of the post 
office to which he is appointed, or within the town or city where it is 
situated, or in the area adjacent to or surrounding the delivery zone 
of the post office in which he lived at the time of appointment. 
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§ 3313. Appointment in fourth class offices in Alaska 
Notwithstanding sections 58, 62, 69, and 70 of title 5, and any other 
provision of law, an officer, agent, or employee of the United States 
Government, who is a citizen of the United States, is eligible for 
appointment as, and to receive the compensation provided by section 
3544 of this title for a postmaster of a fourth class post office in 
Alaska. 
§ 3314. Status on change in class of office 
A postmaster appointed in the competitive civil service at a post 
office of— 
(1) the first, second, or third class whose post office is relegated 
to the fourth class; or 
(2) the fourth class whose post office is advanced to a higher 
class, 
shall continue to be the postmaster after the change in the class of 
office. 
§ 3315. Filling vacancies 
(a) When the office of a postmaster becomes vacant, the appoint-
ment of a regular postmaster shall be made without delay. In the 
interim the Postmaster General may— 
(1) continue the post office, under the name of the former post-
master, by the assistant postmaster or other employee oi the 
post office; or 
(2) in the case of a third or fourth class post office, place the 
office under the charge of a suitable person, pending appoint-
ment of a regular or acting postmaster; or 
(3) place the post office under the charge of a postal in-
spector or other special agent; or 
(4) appoint an acting postmaster. 
(b) Acting postmasters appointed under this section may not serve 
more than six months from the date of their designation, unless the 
Postmaster General extends the period of service with the permission 
of the Civil Service Commission. 
(c) Acting postmasters may be appointed by the Postmaster Gen-
eral in accordance with the Civil Service act, rules, and regulations 
to serve during military leave of the regular postmaster granted pur-
suant to section 3317 of this title. 
§ 3316. Designation of persons to act during absence 
The Postmaster General may authorize postmasters to designate 
the assistant postmaster, or, if none, a clerk employed in the office to 
perform the functions of the office of postmaster during the absences 
of the postmaster. The person so designated shall, during the absences 
of the postmaster— 
(1) discharge the duties required of the postmaster; and 
(2) be subject to the liabilities and penalties prescribed 
by law for the official misconduct in like cases of the postmaster 
for whom he acts. 
§ 3317. Leave without pay for military service 
(a) The Postmaster General shall grant leave of absence without 
pay to a postmaster entering active military service. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall permit a postmaster who resits 
for the purpose of active military service to withdraw his resignation 
and resume the office of postmaster upon being released from service, 
if the office is being conducted by an acting postmaster. 
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ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES 
§ 3331. Duty station 
The Postmaster General shall designate an official duty station for 
employees within the region, division or territory to which they are 
assigned. 
He may not allow per diem, in lieu or actual expenses, to 
employees for official travel except when they are traveling on official 
business away from their home and their official duty station. 
§ 3332. Assignment to branches and stations 
The Postmaster General may assign employees in a post office to 
duty in a branch or station thereof. 
§ 3333. Transfer of postal transportation employees 
(a) The Postmaster General may transfer employees in the Postal 
Transportation Service, including supervisors, from one position or 
assignment to another position or assignment in the Postal Trans-
portation Service. 
(b) When the Postmaster General is required because of changes 
in the service to transfer employees of the Postal Transportation 
Service, including supervisors, from one position or assignment to 
another, he may not reduce their basic salary except as provided in 
subsection (c) of this section. While serving in miscellaneous assign-
ments they shall be retained l y the Postmaster General on the roster 
of their own organizations. He shall also retain for them the promo-
tion status authorized by law for the positions from which they are 
withdrawn. 
They are entitled to pav by the hour for actual services 
performed when on other than roaa duty. For road duty services 
they are entitled to pay by the hour according to the time value of the 
trip including a proper allowance for all services required on lay-off 
periods, untifagain restored to regular positions. 
(c) When a surplus postal transportation employee, including a 
supervisor, can not oe placed in a position corresponding to his salary 
step or salary level in the position from which he was withdrawn 
without giving him preference over an employee or supervisor with 
a longer continuous transportation service record, the Postmaster 
General may relegate him to a lower salary step or salary level in his 
own organization or transfer him elsewhere to any salary step or sal-
ary level that may be available for a regular employee or supervisor 
of his standing. 
§ 3334. Transfer of ten-point preference eligibles 
(a) An employee entitled as a preference eligible under chap-
^uscssietseq. 
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^ ^ points in addition to his earned rat-
ing, who transfers between positions in the same salary level at a 
post office, shall not, as a result of the transfer, incur loss of seniority 
if he presents, to the Civil Service Commission, within thirty days 
after the transfer, satisfactory evidence to the Civil Service Commis-
sion that the transfer was necessitated principally by reason of a dis-
ability which he received on active duty in the Armed Forces of the 
United States. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not reduce a regular employee to 
substitute status to accord the benefits of this section to another 
employee. 
§ 3335. Dual employment and extra duties 
(a) The Postmaster General may appoint an employee to more 
than one position and he shall pay compensation at the rate provided 
by law for each position, without regard to the provisions of sections 
58,62,69, and 70 of title 5. 
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(b) As the needs of the service require, the Postmaster General 
may assign an employee from time to time to perform, without change 
in compensation, duties, and responsibilities, other than the duties 
and responsibilities specifically set forth in his position description. 
If an employee is assigned for more than thirty days in a calendar 
year to duties and responsibilities of a salary level which is higher 
than the salary level to which his position is assigned, except to per-
form service in a relief capacity for a supervisor granted compensa-
tory time pursuant to section 3573 of this title, the Postmaster General 
shall pay for the period of his assignment in excess of thirty days, a 
basic salary computed in accordance with the provisions of section 3559 
of this title. 
(c) The Postmaster General, with the consent of the Administrator 
of General Services, may appoint custodial employees working under 
the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration at Federal 
buildings occupied in part by the Postal Service to positions in the 
Postal Service to perform postal duties in addition to their regular 
duties as custodial employees, and he shall pay compensation to them 
at the rate provided by law without regard to sections 58, 62, 69, and 
70 of title 5. 
§ 3336. Detail to stations of Armed Forces 
Whenever the Postmaster General deems it necessary in serving the 
camps, posts, or stations of the Armed Forces and defense or other 
strategic installations, he may— 
(1) detail field postal employees from niain post offices to postal 
units at those installations without changing their official station; 
and 
(2) pay them an allowance, in lieu of actual expenses, of not 
more than $4 for each day while so detailed, without regard to 
chapter 16 of title 5. 
s use sas et seq. 
§ 3337. Promotions and assignment of rural carriers 
(a) The seniority status of a rural carrier commences on the day 
of appointment as a regular rural carrier. Upon voluntary transfer 
from one post office to another, or another branch of the service into 
the rural delivery service, the relative seniority of the transferee com-
mences on the day he enters the rural delivery service of the office to 
which transfer is made. 
(b) A rural carrier shall be assigned by the Postmaster General to 
the least desirable route upon entering the service and shall rise to 
the more desirable routes by seniority. 
(c) The Postmaster General shall base promotions and preferential 
assignments in the rural delivery service upon seniority and ability. 
If ability be sufficient, seniority shall govern. 
§ 3338. Filling vacancies on rural routes 
(a) The Postmaster General shall post a notice in the post office 
of each new or vacant rural route and give all rural carriers attached 
to the office opportunity to apply. 
(b) A rural carrier assigned to a new or vacant route has ninety 
days in which to demonstrate his fitness for the assignment. 
He 
may not be removed therefrom until his inability to fill the assign-
ment is proven. The Postmaster General shall return any carrier 
so removed to his former position. 
(c) A senior rural carrier whose application for a new or vacant 
route is denied, or who is removed therefrom under subsection (b) 
of this section shall be furnished a written statement of the reasons 
for the action. He has the right, upon written request, to a hearing 
before a person designated by the Postmaster General. 
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(d) The hearing shall be held within ten days from the date of the 
carrier's request, unless prevented by unusual conditions, in which 
event he shall be given a written statement of the reasons for the 
postponement. 
(e) The rural carrier is entitled to be represented at the hearing by 
not more than three representatives of his own choosing. 
(f) This section does not supplant the Civil Service Kegulations. 
§ 3339. Consolidation of rural routes 
The Postmaster General may not consolidate rural routes except on 
account of a carrier's—(1) resignation, (2) death, (3) retirement, 
or (4) dismissal on charges. 
CHAPTER 45—COMPENSATION IN THE POSTAL FIELD 
SERVICE 
POSITIONS 
Sec. 
3501. Ranking of positions. 
3502. Appeals to Civil Service Commission. 
3511. Key positions. 
3512. Positions in salary level 1. 
3513. Positions in salary level 2. 
3514. Positions in salary level 3. 
3515. Positions in salary level 4. 
3516. Positions in salary level 5. 
3517. Positions in salary level 6. 
3518. Positions in salary level 7. 
3519. Positions in salary level 8. 
3520. Positions in salary level 9. 
3521. Positions in salary level 10. 
3522. Positions in salary level 11. 
3523. Positions in salary level 12. 
3524. Positions in salary level 13. 
3525. Positions in salary level 14. 
3526. Positions in salary level 15. 
3527. Positions in salary level 16. 
3528. Positions in salary level 17. 
3529. Positions in salary level 18. 
3530. Positions in salary level 19. 
3531. Positions in salary level 20. 
COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES 
3541. Pay periods and computation of rates. 
3542. Postal Field Service Schedule. 
3543, Rural Carrier Schedule. 
3544, Fourth Class Office Schedule. 
SALARY STEPS AND PROMOTIONS 
3551. Appointments to positions In the postal field serrice. 
3552. Automatic advancement by step-increases. 
3553. Creditable service for advancement. 
3554. Compensation of certain temporary employees. 
8555. Reduction in salary step. 
3556. Automatic advancement withheld. 
3557. Automatic advancement of substitute employee deferred. 
8558. Longevity step increases. 
3559. Promotions. 
HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME 
3571, Maximum hours of work. 
3572, Minimum hours of work for hourly rate employees. 
3573, Compensatory time, overtime, and holidays. 
3574, Night work. 
3575, Exemptions. 
3576, Holiday service of rural carriers and employees assigned to road duty. 
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SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR POSTAL TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR 
VEHICLE SERVICES 
3581. Road duty employees. 
3582. Time credit for delay to trains and highway post oflSces. 
POSITIONS 
§ 3501. Ranking of positions 
(a) The Postmaster General shall define the various positions other 
than the key positions specified in sections 3511-3531 of this title and 
the standard positions of postmaster in a fourth class office and rural 
carrier. 
He shall assign each position to its appropriate salary 
level in the Postal Field Service Schedule. He shall ascertain the 
appropriate salary level of a position (1) by comparing the duties, 
responsibilities, and work requirements of the position with those 
of key positions described in sections 3511-3531 of this title, and (2) 
by ranking the position in relation to the key position most closely 
comparable in terms of the level of duties, responsibilities, and work 
requirements. 
^b) In ranking positions, the Postmaster General shall apply the 
principle of equal pay for substantially equal work and give effect to 
substantial differences in difficulty of the work to be performed, in 
the degree of responsibility to be exercised, in the scope and variety 
of tasks involved, and in the conditions of performance. 
(d) The Postmaster General's determinations under this section 
is the basis for the payment of compensation and for personnel trans-
actions. 
§ 3502. Appeals to Civil Service Commission 
An employee, either individually or together with one or more 
other employees with a similar grievance, may appeal at any time, 
in person or through his representative specifically designated for 
that purpose, to the United States Civil Service Commission to 
review— 
(1) if the employee is in a position other than a key position 
described in sections 3511-3531 of this title, any action taken by 
the Postmaster General under section 3501 of this title, in order 
to determine whether his position has been placed in its appro-
priate salary level in accordance with that section, and 
(2) if the employee is in a key position described in sections 
3511-3531 of this title, any administrative action taken or de-
termination made under section 3501 of this title, in connection 
with the employee, in order to determine whether the employee 
has been placed correctly in a key position on the basis of and 
in accordance with the descriptions of key positions and the 
assignments of the positions to salary levels specified in sections 
3511-3531 of this title. 
The Commission shall act upon the appeal at the earliest prac-
ticable time, and certify its decision forthwith to the Postmaster 
General who shall take action in accordance with the certificate. 
§ 3511. Key positions 
Key positions in the postal field service consisting of standard, 
related tasks commonly performed in that service, and for which the 
symbol shall be " K P " are described and assigned to salary levels in 
the Postal Field Service Schedule in accordance with sections 3512-
3531 of this title. 
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§ 3512. Positions in salary level 1 
JANITOR. (KP-1) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Cleans, sweeps, and removes trash from 
work areas, lobbies, and washrooms. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sweeps and scrubs floors and stairs, dusts furniture and 
fixtures, cleans washrooms and washes windows (except exterior 
glass in high buildings). 
(B) Moves furniture and helps erect equipment and fixtures 
within offices of the building. 
(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) cleans ice and snow from the sidewalks and driveways, 
and tends the lawn, shrubbery, and premises of the post 
office; 
(ii) washes walls and ceilings. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or 
other designated supervisor. 
§ 3513. Positions in salary level 2 
(a) ELEVATOR OPERATOR. 
(KP-2) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Operates a freight or passenger elevator. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Operates elevator. 
(B) Cleans cab of elevator and polishes metal fittings. 
(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) pushes handcarts of mail on and off elevator or assists 
in loading or unloading material carried on elevator; 
(ii) tends the heating plant or performs cleaning duties 
in the vicinity of the elevator. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to 
an 
elevator 
starter or other designated supervisor. 
(b) ORDER FILLER. 
(KP-3) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Selects, assembles, and makes ready for ship-
ment items requisitioned by postal field establishments. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
Is assigned any of the following duties: 
(A) Separates sheets of the requisition form, fastens copies to 
clipboards and places on appropriate conveyor line. 
(B) Clarifies writing on carbon copies of requisitions in order 
to minimize errors in filling requisitions. 
(C) Sets up and prepares shipping containers. 
(D) Places in cartons on conveyor lines the quantities of items 
requisitioned from an assigned station, indicating action taken 
opposite each item. 
(E) Fills and labels bulk shipping orders and moves bulk 
material to dispatch area. 
(F) Replenishes from stock items stored in individual stations 
and keeps stations neat and orderly to facilitate filling of 
requisitions. 
(G) Transports bulk and individual shipments on hand trucks. 
(H) Assembles materials for each requisition where conveyor 
lines converge. 
(I) Places cartons on assembly table for coordination and 
packing. 
(J) Checks requisition copies and items to assure that proper 
action has been taken. 
(K) Directs items not requiring packing to dispatch area. 
(L) Combines shipments to reduce packing. 
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(M) Transmits bulk slips and shipping labels to the appropri-
ate person. 
(N) Labels bulk and individual packages with printed labels 
to avoid hand labeling. 
(O) Prepares labels by use of appropriate rubber stamps. 
(P) Seals cartons with stapling machine or tape. 
(Q) Packs supplies for shipment. 
(R) Stacks and trucks completed orders. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or 
other designated supervisor. 
(c) CLERK. THIRD CLASS POST OFFICE. (KP-4) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Sorts incoming and dispatches outgoing 
mail for a small number of points of separation and destination; pro-
vides a limited number of services at public windows. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sorts incoming mail for general delivery, lock boxes, and 
one or more delivery routes. 
(B) Postmarks and prepares mail for dispatch by train or 
other mail route; closes, locks, and affixes labels to pouches and 
mail sacks. 
(C) Performs services at a public window, such as selling 
stamps, stamped envelopes, or other routine functions. 
(D) As the needs of the service require, may perform other 
related duties incidental to the operation of the post office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster. 
§ 3514. Positions in salary level 3 
(a) GUARD. (KP-5) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Makes rounds of the post office building, and 
punches clocks at designated stations. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Patrols buildings, punching watchman's clock where fur-
nished, checking door and window locks, noting and reporting 
fire hazards and other irregularities, such as running water and 
unclosed doors and windows. 
(B) Sounds fire alarm. 
(C) Preserves order in corridors and, when necessary, detains 
persons for interrogation by post-office inspectors or local police. 
(D) In addition may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Gives directions to the public in building looby, 
(ii) Raises and lowers the flag. 
(iii) Retrieves lost and found articles and delivers them to 
the appropriate place. 
(iv) Obtains names of victims, doctors, police, and wit-
nesses in the event of accident. 
(v) Guards property entrances and prevents damage to 
property by the public. 
(vi) Tends the heating plant of the building. 
(vii) Operates elevators on a relief basis. 
(viii) Does incidental cleaning and laboring work. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a lieutenant of 
the guard, a building superintendent, or other designated supervisor. 
(b) FILE CLERK. (KP-6) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Sets up and maintains files on one or more 
subject matters. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Prepares new file folders and maintains existing folders 
in correct order as prescribed in the established filing system. 
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(B) Transmits folders or information contained therein to 
authorized personnel (for example, forwards personnel folders to 
requesting supervisors, or copies data from folders to satisfy 
requests). 
(C) Opens, sorts, and searches file material, and maintains 
files in up-to-date condition. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Types from rough draft or plain copy. 
(ii) Answers telephones, 
(iii) Prepares requisitions for supplies, 
(iv) Operates a mimeograph machine. 
(3) 
ORGANIZATIONAL KELATIONSHIPS.—Keports to a designated 
supervisor. 
(c) TYPIST. (KP-7) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Types material such as forms, correspond-
ence, and stencils from rough draft or plain copy. 
(2) DUTIES AND KESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) In accordance with instructions and information fur-
nished by supervisors, types forms, standard reports, and docu-
ments such as invitations to bid, orders, contracts, invoices, 
personnel actions, and related materials. 
(B) Types correspondence and memoranda from rough drafts 
or general information. 
(C) Cuts stencils for instructions, circulars, and other general 
uses. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Transcribes from a dictating machine, 
(ii) Operates a mimeograph machine, 
(iii) Files, checks requisitions, prepares vouchers, and 
answers the telephone. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL KELATIONSHIPS.—Keports to a designated 
supervisor. 
(d) MAIL HANDLER. (KP-8) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Loads, unloads, and moves bulk mail, and 
performs other duties incidental to the movement and processing of 
mail. 
(2) DUTIES AND KESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Unloads mail received by trucks. 
Separates all mail re-
ceived by trucks and conveyors for subsequent dispatch to other 
conveying units, and separates and delivers working mails for 
delivery to distribution areas. 
(B) Places empty sacks or pouches on racks, labels them where 
labels are prearranged or racks are plainly marked, dumps mail 
from sacks, cuts, ties, faces letter mail, carries mail to distributors 
for processing, places processed mail into sacks, removes filled 
sacks and pouches from racks, closes and locks same. Picks up 
sacks, pouches and outside pieces, separates outgoing bulk mails 
for dispatch and loads mail onto trucks. 
(C) Handles and sacks empty equipment, inspects empty equip-
ment for mail content, restrings sacks. 
(D) Cancels stamps on parcel post, operates canceling machines, 
carries mail from canceling machine to distribution cases. 
(E) Assists in supply and slip rooms and operates addresso-
graph, mimeograph, and similar machines. 
(F) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Acts as armed guard for valuable registry shipments 
and as watchman and guard around post office building. 
(ii) Makes occasional simple distribution of parcel post 
mail requiring no scheme knowledge. 
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(iii) Operates electric fork-lift trucks, 
(iv) Rewraps soiled or broken parcels, 
(v) Performs other miscellaneous duties, such as stamping 
tickets, weighing incoming sacks, cleaning and sweeping in 
workrooms, offices, and trucks where such work is not per-
formed by regular cleaners. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or 
other designated supervisor. 
(e) GARAGEMAN. (KP-9) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Performs a variety of routine services in-
cidental to the proper maintenance of motor vehicles. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Lubricates trucks in accordance with lubrication charts 
and type of truck. 
(B) Changes crankcase oil and filter cleaners and cleans case in 
conformance with instructions and vehicle mileage. 
(C) Changes tires and makes necessary repairs. 
(D) Washes and steam-cleans trucks. 
(E) Assists automotive mechanics. 
(F) Fuels and oils trucks. 
(G) Cleans garage, garage office, swing room, and washroom, as 
assigned. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman of 
mechanics or other designated supervisor. 
§ 3515. Positions in salary level 4 
(a) MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR. (KP-10) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Operates a mail truck on a regularly sched-
uled route to pick up and transport mail in bulk. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Picks up and delivers bulk quantities of mail at stations, 
branch offices, and terminal points; as required, picks up mail from 
collection boxes and deposits mail in relay boxes. 
( B ) Operates truck in conformity with time schedules and rules 
of safety, and in accordance with instructions regarding the route 
for which responsible. 
(C) Ascertains the condition of the truck prior to leaving and 
upon returning to the garage; reports all accidents, mechanical 
defects noted, and mechanical failures while on route. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Drives a tractor and semitrailer on occasion, unloading 
bagged mail and packages at post offices and picking up man 
for delivery to a central point. 
(ii) Prepares daily trip reports showing work performed. 
(iii) Makes minor mechanical repairs to truck in emer-
gencies while on route. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a superintendent 
of motor vehicles or other designated supervisor. 
(b) CITY OR SPECIAL CARRIER OR SPECIAL DELIVERY MES-
SENGER. (KP-11) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for the prompt and efficient 
delivery and collection of mail on foot or by vehicle under varying 
conditions in a prescribed area within a city. As a representative of 
the postal service, maintains pleasant and effective public relations 
with route patrons and others, requiring a general familiarity with 
postal laws, regulations, and procedures commonly used, and with the 
geography of the city. 
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(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery 
along an established route. 
Rearranges and relabels cases as re-
quired by route adjustments and changes in deliveries. 
(B) Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prej)ares 
it in sequence for efficient delivery by himself or a substitute 
along an established route. 
Prepares and separates all classes of 
mail to be carried by truck to relay boxes along route for subse-
quent delivery. 
(C) Enters change of address orders in change of address book 
and on appropriate form. 
Readdresses mail to oe forwarded and 
marks for appropriate handling other mail addressed to route 
patrons who have moved. 
Sorts such mail into throw-back case 
tor convenient handling by clerks. 
(D) Delivers mail along a prescribed route, on a regular sched-
ule, picking up additionaimail from relay boxes. Collects mail 
from street letter boxes and accepts letters for mailing from 
patrons. 
Such service may be rend!ered on foot or by vehicle and 
in some instances may consist exclusively of parcel post delivery 
or collection of mail. 
(E) Delivers and collects charges on customs, postage-due, and 
c. 0. d. mail matter. 
Delivers and obtains receipts for registered 
and certain insured mail. 
Receipts for such matter, except in-
sured mail, at the post office before beginning route and accounts 
for it upon return by payments of the amounts collected and 
delivery of receipts taken. 
(F) Deposits mail collected in the post office upon return from 
route; faces such mail for stamp cancellation. 
(G) Checks, and corrects if necessary, mailing cards presented 
by advertisers bearing names and addresses of patrons or former 
patrons of the route. 
(H) Furnishes patrons with postal information when re-
?
uested, and provides change of address cards and other postal 
orms as requested. 
(I) Reports to supervisor all unusual incidents or conditions 
relating to mail delivery, including condition of street letter boxes 
and timecards. 
(J) Regular city carriers assigned to foot delivery routes are 
required to become proficient in the casing of mail on at least one 
other foot delivery route. 
(K) Substitute city carriers may be assigned to perform cler-
. ,,: ical duties and may be required to pass examinations on schemes 
of city primary distribution. 
(L) Special delivery carriers and special delivery messengers 
receive special delivery mail for delivery and sign c. o. d. and 
registered items at post office before beginning route; delivery 
on foot and by vehicle special delivery mail to patrons; obtain 
signatures when required; collect amounts and fees on c. o. d.'s; 
in case of absent patrons, exercise judgment in determining 
whether to leave mail or leave notice and return mail to post 
office; return receipts and moneys collected to authorized per-
sonnel at post office. 
(M) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Checks hotels and other such establishments to insure 
that mail for residents undeliverable as addressed is not 
improperly held. 
(ii) Delivers stamps or other paper supplies to contract 
or classified stations. 
(iii) Serves at carriers' delivery window. 
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(iv) Receives and registers, where practical, all letters 
and packages of first class mail properly offered for registra-
tion and gives receipt therefor. 
(v) Makes delivery on other routes as assigned. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster or 
assistant postmaster, or other designated supervisor. 
(c) DISTRIBUTION CLERK. (KP-12) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Separates mail in a post office, terminal, air-
mail field, or other postal facility in accordance with established 
schemes, including incoming or outgoing mail or both. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Makes primary and one or more secondary distributions 
of incoming mail by delivery point (for example, classified or 
contract station or branch or other delivery unit, general delivery, 
lockboxes, rural or star route, or city carrier route) based on a 
knowledge of the distribution scheme established for that office. 
(B) Makes primary and one or more secondary distributions 
of outgoing mail for dispatch (for example, by city. State, region, 
train, highway or railway post office, or airmail night) based on 
a knowledge of the distribution scheme prescribed by the Postal 
Transportation Service. 
(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Maintains records of mails. 
(ii) Examines balances in advance deposit accounts, 
(iii) Faces and cancels mail, 
(iv) Ties mail and inserts facing slips, 
(v) Opens and dumps pouches and sacks, 
(vi) Operates cancelling machines, 
(vii) Records and bills mail (for example, c. o. d., reg-
istered, and so forth) requiring special services, 
(viii) Renders service at public windows. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or 
other designated supervisor. 
(d) WINDOW CLERK. (KP-13) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Performs a variety of services at a public 
window of a post office or post office branch or station. As a represent-
ative of the postal service, maintains pleasant and effective public 
relations with patrons and others requiring a general familiarity with 
postal laws, regulations, and procedures commonly used. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sells postage stamps, stamped paper, cards, internal rev-
enue stamps, migratory bird stamps, and postal savings stamps 
and certificates. 
(B) Accepts from and, after proper identification, delivers to 
patrons parcel post, insured, c. o. d., and registered mail; makes 
collection of required postage, issues necessary receipts, and issues 
general-delivery mail to patrons. 
(C) Verifies second-, third-, and fourth-class mailings, comput-
ing and maintaining on a current basis mailers' credit balances. 
(D) Assigns special delivery and registered mail for delivery. 
(E) Checks and sets post office stamp-vending machines, post-
age meters, and large mailers' stamp permit meters. 
(F) Receives, follows up, and recommends action on patrons' 
claims and complaints. 
(G) Issues and cashes foreign and domestic money orders and 
postal savings certificates. 
(H) Rents post-office boxes, receives rental payments, conducts 
reference checks, and completes related forms. 
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(I) Provides information to the public concerning postal 
regulations, mailing restrictions, rates, and other matters involv-
ing postal transactions. 
(J) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Makes emergency carrier relays, 
(ii) Assists in alien registration and census matters, 
(iii) Separates and distributes mail. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster, as-
sistant postmaster, or other designated supervisor. 
§ 3516. Positions in salary level 5 
(a) AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC. (KP-14) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Repairs mail trucks, including the removal 
and installation of complete motors, clutches, transmissions, and other 
major component parts. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Diagnoses mechanical and operating difficulties of vehi-
cles, repairing defects, replacing worn or broken parts. 
(B) Adjusts and tunes up engines, cleaning fuel pumps, car-
buretors, and radiators; regulates timing, and makes other neces-
sary adjustments to maintain in proper operating condition 
trucks that are in service. 
(C) Repairs or replaces automotive electrical equipment such 
as generators, starters, ignition systems, distributors, and wiring; 
installs and sets new spark plugs. 
(D) Conducts road tests of vehicles after repairs, noting per-
formance of engine, clutch, transmission, brakes, and other parts. 
(E) Operates standard types of modern garage testing equip-
ment. 
(F) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Removes, disassembles, reassembles, and installs entire 
engines. 
(ii) Overhauls transmission, rear end assemblies, and 
braking systems. 
(iii) Straightens frames and axels, welding broken parts 
where required. 
(iv) Makes road calls to make emergency repairs. 
(v) Makes required truck inspections. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman of me-
chanics or other designated supervisor. 
(b) TRANSFER CLERK. (KP-15) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Arranges for transfer of mail at junction 
points between trains and other mail units and observes the separation, 
loading and unloading of mail by railroad employees to make certain 
that this is done properly. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the most expeditious transfer of mail from 
observations of the operation of trains, star route, or mail 
messenger vehicles, Government-owned vehicles and platform 
vehicles. 
(B) Examines outgoing and incoming cars to determine maxi-
mum utilization of space and proper adherence to railroad safety 
requirements; reports findings, when necessary, to the district 
superintendent. 
(C) Decides whether outbound cars in full authorizations 
should be held beyond the first available dispatches in order 
to obtain fuller loading and maximum utilization of the space 
paid for, making certain that this will not unduly delay the 
arrival of the mail at destination. 
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(D) Studies the routing and loading of mail dispatched from 
his station in storage cars in order to recommend changes which 
would bring about economies in line haul and terminal charges 
and effect earlier arrival. 
Gives similar attention to incoming 
mail to assure that dispatching divisions are using best routing 
and loading methods; reports facts to the district superintendent. 
(E) Maintains close liaison with foremen of appropriate 
incoming and outgoing trains and vehicles to assure prompt 
receipt and expeditious dispatch of mail. 
(F) Keeps informed on local holding orders for each outgoing 
dispatch and requests that departure of unit within these limi-
tations be withheld when scheduled connections are delayed. 
(G) Prepares list of railroad cars (except railway post office 
cars) in which mail is loaded, and maintains record of mail loaded 
and unloaded in outgoing and incoming trains. 
Serves notice 
on railroad company to cancel operation and purchases lesser 
storage unit in its place when necessary. 
Prepares official dia-
gram and appropriately labels outgoing cars to indicate destina-
tion or next relay point. 
(H) Inspects the loading and unloading of storage mail to 
secure individual piece count of lesser storage units (thirty feet 
and less); estimates volume when more than thirty feet. 
(I) Observes and reports to designated supervisor any fail-
ure of the railroad company to afford protection for the mail. 
(J) Qualifies periodically through examination on knowledge 
of distributing schemes, postal regulations, space rules, and train 
connections. 
(K) In addition, may perform any of the following rules: 
(i) Keceipts for, transfers, and delivers registered mail 
between trains or between train and post office. 
(ii) Distributes mail prescribed for distribution in trans-
fer office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or 
other designated supervisor. 
(c) DISTRIBUTION CLERK, R. P. O. OR H. P. O. (KP-16) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Distributes mail in railway or highway post 
office prior to departure and while en route. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Determines the fastest or most expeditious dispatch of 
mail from the standpoint of assignment. 
In emergencies, such as 
floods, storms, wrecks, strikes, and missed connections, redistrib-
utes the mail so as to reach destination by the most expeditious 
alternative means, for example, by other railway post office or 
highway post office, airmail route, or star route. 
(B) Distributes mail rapidly into letter case or pouches and 
sacks. 
(C) Hangs pouches and sacks in racks and places labels in 
holders provided; labels letter cases in accordance with official 
diagram. 
(D) Prepares mail for dispatch, involving labeling and tying 
of letter mail in packages for distribution in pouches, closing 
and locking sacks and pouches, and maintenance of proper sepa-
rations for connections en route. 
(E) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Receives and dispatches mail en route. 
(ii) Unloads mail and equipment at terminal of run. 
(iii) Examines car to ascertain that no mail is left, 
(iv) Convays registered mail to post office and connecting 
lines. 
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(F) Qualifies through examination periodically on knowledge 
of distributing schemes, postal regulations, space rules, and tram 
schedules. 
(3) OKGANIZATIONAL KELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman in 
charge of the railway post office car or highway post office. 
(d) CLAIMS CLERK, PAYING OFFICE. (KP-17) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTIONS.—Examines claims for loss or damage of in-
sured or c. o. d. mail and determines and approves for payment the 
amount found to be due under postal regulations. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Receives and reviews prescribed claim papers to ascertain 
whether: 
(i) All necessary items of the appropriate claim form 
have been properly completed. 
(ii) Proof of value has been properly determined. 
(iii) Appropriate check has been made of applicable 
records. 
(iv) Other necessary information has been supplied. 
(B) Determines whether amount of claim exceeds amount of 
loss and the proper amount payable is within the limits of the 
indemnity. 
(C) Conducts necessary correspondence in connection with 
the claim. 
(D) Approves amount to be paid, and directs disposition of 
damaged articles. 
(E) Maintains prescribed record of claims. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to an assistant post-
master or other designated supervisor. 
(e) POSTMASTER, SMALL THIRD CLASS OFFICE. (KP-18) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a small 
third class post office, including actual performance of mail processing 
and window service, disbursement of funds and preparation of re-
quired reports. This office has no employees other than the postmaster 
and a replacement to serve during his leave; has annual receipts of 
approximately $1,700; has no rural delivery service within its 
jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Conducts the activities of the office in such manner as to 
provide prompt and efficient postal service to the patrons of the 
office. 
( B ) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives per-
sonal attention to complaints. 
(C) Sorts incoming mail for boxholders and general de-
livery ; faces, cancels, sorts by destination, ties and sacks outgoing 
mail. 
(D) At a window delivers general delivery mail, issues and 
cashes money orders, delivers c. o. d. and customs mail, accepts 
and delivers parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells stamps 
and stamped paper, and collects box rents. 
(E) Prepares and submits estimates of operating allowances 
as required. 
( F ) Makes deposits of accountable funds; requisitions stamps 
and stamped paper; requisitions supplies; pays authorized bills. 
(G) Maintains required office records; prepares and submits 
necessary reports in accordance with instructions. 
(H) Maintains files for the office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIP.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a district manager. 
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§ 3517. Positions in salary level 6 
(a) CLAIMS CLERK, COMMON AND CONTRACT CARRIERS. (KP-19) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Audits carriers' claims for the transporta-
tion of mail to insure their accuracy and correctness of form prior to 
certifying them for payment. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Checks original or draft of claims submitted by carriers 
using space procurement data, records of air carrier flights and 
weight allocations, reports of railroad space utilization, emer-
gency space procured, and other pertinent reports and data sub-
mitted by the districts. 
(B) Corrects errors in drafts of claims and returns them to the 
carrier for resubmission in final corrected form. 
(C) Expedites the processing of claims by continuous coordi-
nation with the carriers to minimize the incidence of error on 
claims submitted. 
(D) Rechecks resubmitted claims prior to certifying them for 
payment. 
(E) Maintains records pertinent to carrier claims such as un-
scheduled air carrier flights, weight allocations for mail on flights 
of air carriers, and air line flight schedules. 
(F) Accumulates data and prepares periodic and special re-
ports on subjects related to the purchase and use of railroad space, 
and air carrier weight allocation. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to the supervisor in 
charge of the fiscal section in a Postal Transportation Service division 
office or other designated supervisor. 
(b) POSTMASTER, THIRD CLASS OFFICE. 
(KP-20) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a third 
class post office, including actual performance of mail processing and 
window services, disbursement of funds and preparation of required 
reports. This office has one part time clerical employee; has annual 
receipts of approximately $4,700; has no rural delivery service within 
its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises and conducts the activities of the office in 
order to provide prompt and efficient postal service to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives per-
sonal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations. 
(D) Sorts incoming mail for boxholders and general delivery; 
faces, cancels, sorts by destination, ties and sacks outgoing mail. 
(E) At a window delivers general delivery mail, issues and 
cashes money orders, delivers c. o. d. and customs mail, accepts 
and delivers parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells stamps 
and stamped paper, and collects box rents. 
(F) Makes required deposits of accountable funds; requisi-
tions stamps and stamped paper; requisitions supplies; pays 
authorized bills and makes salary disbursements. 
(G) Prepares and submits annual estimates of manpower needs 
and operating allowances as required. 
(H) Maintains required office records; prepares and submits 
necessary reports in accordance with instructions. 
(I) Maintains files for the office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a district manager. 
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§ 3518. Positions in salary level 7 
(a) FOREMAN, MAILS. (KP-21) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Supervises a ^roup of employees engaged in 
carrying out assigned tasks connected with the processing of incoming 
or outgoing mail. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Lays out work for employees; insures attendance to duties 
and proper performance of assignments; shifts employees from 
one assignment to another to meet fluctuations in workload; 
answers questions respecting work progress. 
(B) Trains new employees and provides continuous on-the-job 
training for all employees under his supervision. 
(C) Reports unusual difficulties to a general foreman and sug-
gests solutions. Personally resolves problems of a routine nature. 
(D) Keeps required records for such matters as time, mail on 
hand, and mail processed. 
(E) Recommends personnel actions respecting subordinates; 
maintains morale among the employees in the group; adjusts 
complaints; supplies leadership necessary to secure maximum 
interest and effort from men and promotes cooperation and 
harmony. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsi-
ble to a general foreman or other designated superior. 
Supervises 
approximately twenty or more employees. 
(b) POSTMASTER, THIRD CLASS OFFICE. (KP-22) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a third 
class post office, including actual participation in processing of mail 
and window services, disbursement of funds and preparation of re-
quired reports. This office has two clerical employees and annual 
receipts of approximately $6,000, and rural delivery service within 
its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises the activities of the office in order to provide 
expeditious handling of the mails, and efficient and courteous 
postal service to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives per-
sonal attention to complaints. 
"• 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by the Department and Civil Service Regula-
lations; selects personnel and trains them in their respective 
positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working 
schedules of employees and is responsible for the administration 
of the Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Distributes incoming mail for carrier delivery, boxholders 
and general delivery; faces, cancels, distributes, ties and sacks 
outgoing mail; performs general delivery window services; issues 
and cashes money orders; delivers c. o. d. and customs mail; 
accepts and delivers parcel post, registered and insured mail; 
sells stamps, stamped paper, savings bonds, postal savings stamps 
and certificates, migratory and documentary stamps, and collects 
box rents. 
(F) Checks financial accountability of employees in accord-
ance with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of account-
able funds in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; 
requisitions supplies; issues checks for employees' salaries and 
other official disbursements. 
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(G) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operat-
ing allowances for submission as required. 
(H) Prepares reports of a recurrmg nature, reflecting various 
transactions of the office, such as personnel salary summaries, 
retirement and withholding tax data, cost estimates, money order 
and bond summaries and schedules of disbursement. 
(I) Maintains all files for the office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsible 
to a district manager. 
§ 3519. Positions in salary level 8 
(a) GENERAL FOREMAN.—R. P. O. (KP-23) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs mail service operations in a railway 
post office train with two or more authorized cars. Supervises a crew 
of foremen and clerks whose primary function is the distribution and 
exchange of mails en route. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the proper distribution, exchange, and dis-
patch of mail regularly assigned for handling in the railway post 
office cars. Makes decisions concerning the most expeditious dis-
patch, rerouting and utilization of alternative connections involv-
ing irregularly received mail and also in emergency situations. 
(B) Directs mail service operations in the railway post office 
train including: 
(i) Rapid distribution of all classes of mail in accordance 
with official diagrams and via most advantageous routing. 
(ii) Handling, recording, and protection of registered 
mails. 
(iii) Makeup and exchange of mail at intermediate and 
terminal offices. 
(iv) Proper utilization of space in each railway post office 
car with relation to other storage space in train and, except 
as charged to transfer clerks, for proper handling of all 
storage mail in train. 
(v) Loading and unloading of railway post office cars to 
assure maximum use of available storage space without addi-
tional cost. 
f vi) Proper usage of mail equipment and supplies. 
(vii) Maintenance of distribution schemes and schedules of 
mail routes in corrected condition. 
(C) Supervises the activities of foremen and clerks in the cars 
and reassigns them to various duties as may be required to com-
plete maximum distribution. 
Instructs clerks on proper practices 
and procedures and reports failures to meet operating standards 
to the district superintendent. 
(D) Inspects condition of railway post office cars and reports 
to the railroad company unsatisfactory situations. 
(E) Completes trip report form covering service operations, 
including particulars of train operation, roster of clerks on dutyj 
mails received, worked, and dispatched, and mails not worked; 
prepares a list of all cars on train in which mail is carried, a 
record of the mail, and a report of any irregularities in service. 
Observes and reports to district superintendent any failure of the 
railroad company to afford protection to the mail. 
(F) May personally distribute letter mail for one or more 
States, and maintain record of pouches received and dispatched. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsible 
to a district superintendent or other designated superior. 
Directs, 
through one or more subordinate foremen, clerks assigned to the run. 
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(b) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, SMALL FIRST CLASS POST 
OFFICE. 
(KP-24) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, providing general direction and supervision over mails, finance, 
personnel, and other related activities. This office has approximately 
sixteen employees, annual receipts of approximately $63,000, and eight 
carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND KESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and dis-
ciplining of post office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man-
power expenditures and is responsible through designated sub-
ordinates for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized 
allowances to operating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate em-
ployees in planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and 
administrative programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates 
and attends to administrative matters essential to the manage-
ment of the post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organiza-
tions. 
(I) May personally handle window transactions and perform 
work elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the 
post office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as re-
quired. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible 
to the postmaster. 
(c) POSTMASTER, SECOND CLASS OFFICE. 
(KP-25) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a second 
class post office, including actual participation in processing of mail 
and window services, disbursement of funds and preparation of 
required reports. This office has approximately six employees, annual 
receipts of approximately $16,000, and has rural delivery service 
within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises and coordinates the activities of the office in 
order to provide expeditious handling of the mails, and efficient 
and courteous postal service to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administra-
tive matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
selects personnel and trains them in their respective positions. 
! 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working 
schedules of employees; recommends promotions of employees; 
is responsible for the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System. 
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(E) Distributes incoming mail for carrier delivery, boxholders 
and general delivery; faces, cancels^ distributes, ties and sacks 
outgoing mail; performs general delivery window service; issues 
and casnes money orders; delivers c. o. d. and customs mails; 
accepts and delivers parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells 
stamps, stamped paper, savings bonds, postal saving stamps and 
certificates, migratory and documentary stamps, and collects box 
rents. 
(F) Checks financial accountability of employees in accord-
ance with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of account-
able funds in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; 
requisitions supplies; issues checks for employees' salaries and 
other official disDursements. 
(G) Prepares annual estimates of manpow^er needs and operat-
ing allowances for submission as required. 
(H) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various 
transactions of the office, such as personnel salary summaries, 
retirement and withholding tax data, cost estimates, money order 
and bond summaries and schedules of disbursement. 
(I) Maintains all files for the office. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively 
respon-
sible to a district manager. 
§ 3520. Positions in salary level 9 
(a) GENERAL FOREMAN, MAILS. (KP-26) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs foreman in the distribution of all or 
part of incoming mails, outgoing mails, or both, at a first class post 
office. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Lays out work for foremen at the beginning of a tour 
and issues instructions. 
(B) Oversees work in progress to prevent accumulation of 
mail. 
(C) Insures that mail is distributed in accordance with estab-
lished orders and instructions. 
( D ) Shifts men from one foreman to another to keep mails 
moving. 
(E) Reports difficulties and suggests corrective measures to 
superior. 
(F) Maintains required records. 
(G) Assures that adequate on-the-job training is carried out 
to promote employee proficiency. 
(H) Reviews and forwards recommendations of foremen re-
specting discipline, promotions, or changes in assignments; ap-
proves time and leave requests; submits manpower estimates. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a superintendent or assistant superintendent or other desig-
nated superior. 
Directs, through approximately four foremen, em-
ployees as assigned. 
(b) POSTMASTER, SMALL FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-27) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
personnel, and other related activities. This office has approximately 
sixteen employees, annual receipts of approximately $63,000, and city 
delivery service consisting of eight carrier routes within its jurisdic-
tion. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling 
of mails and to provide courteous and efficient service to the 
patrons. 
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(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administra-
tive matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working 
schedules of employees; recommends promotions of employees 
and is responsible for the proper administration of the Efficiency 
Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accord-
ance with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of account-
able funds in local banks; obtains bids for proposed purchases; 
requisitions supplies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operat-
ing allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various 
transactions of the post office; submits postmaster's accounts with 
supporting vouchers and documents in accordance with existing 
instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including contract 
stations, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and vehicular 
maintenance service, and submits bids, with recommendations, as 
required. 
(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform 
work elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively 
respon-
sible to a district manager. 
§ 3521. Positions in salary level 10 
(a) BUILDING SUPERINTENDENT. (KP-28) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the janitorial, maintenance, and 
operating services of a large post office building and branches and 
stations covering an aggregate area of approximately 700,000 square 
feet, including security, heating and ventilating, mecnanical and elec-
trical equipment, and elevator services. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Plans and prepares work schedules and supervises the cus-
todial forces in cleaning, heating, guarding, operating, and repair-
ing the post office building and equipment. 
(B) Makes frequent inspections to determine maintenance needs 
of the building and equipment, and to determine the efficiency of 
the janitorial and maintenance force. 
(C) Prepares and answers correspondence relating to custodial 
service. 
(D) Plans and supervises maintenance or alteration work under 
contract. 
(E) Supervises the office force in the preparation of vouchers, 
requisitions, and reports incidental to custodial service, and in 
the maintenance of required accounts and records. 
(F) Recommends transfers, promotions, and disciplinary mea-
sures for custodial personnel. 
(G) Inspects mechanical equipment to determine repair needs 
and adherence to standards of preventive maintenance. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to the postmaster or other designated superior. 
Directs, through 
a general foreman of laborers and a chief engineer, approximately 100 
employees, including electricians and other skilled trades. 
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(b) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-29) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
personnel, and other related activities. This office has approximately 
twenty-seven employees, annual receipts of $129,000, and eleven city 
delivery and rural carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient service to the patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints all personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that all personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of all employees; supervises arrange-
ment of working schedules of employees; recommends promotions 
of employees; and is responsible for the proper administration 
of the Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accord-
ance with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of account-
able funds in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; 
requisitions supplies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and oper-
ating allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various 
transactions of the post office; submits postmaster's accounts with 
supporting vouchers and documents in accordance with existing 
instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including con-
tract stations, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and 
vehicular maintenance service, and submits bids, with recom-
mendations, as required. 
(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform 
work elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a district manager. 
§ 3522. Positions in salary level 11 
(a) TOUR SUPERINTENDENT, INCOMING OR OUTGOING 
MAILS. (KP-^0) 
(1) BASIC^UNCTION.—Directs general foremen in the distribution 
of incoming mails or outgoing mails on a tour at a large first class 
post office. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the prompt and complete operation of a tour 
activity, such as incoming mails, outgoing mails, or all first and 
third class outgoing mails. 
(B) Reassigns employees as necessary to meet peakload de-
mands; provides direction to subordinate foremen, coordinating 
the portions of work assigned to them. 
(C) Answers questions of subordinate foremen regarding op-
erating problems; refers policy questions to his superior with 
appropriate recommendations. 
(D) Reviews requests for personnel actions by subordinate 
foremen, recommending final action to superior. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower required, consolidating for 
recommendation to superior. 
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(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to an assistant superintendent of mails or other designated supe-
rior. 
Directs, through general foremen, employees assigned to the 
tour. 
(b) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-31) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
personnel, and other related activities. 
This office has approximately 
iifty-three employees, annual receipts of $314,000, six Government-
owned vehicle units, no classified stations, and twenty-five city and 
rural delivery routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient service to the patrons. 
(li) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of all employees; supervises arrange-
ment of working schedules of employees; recommends promotions 
of employees; and is responsible for the proper administration of 
the Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accord-
ance with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of account-
able funds in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; 
requisitions supplies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operat-
ing allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares numerous reports of a recurring nature, reflect-
ing various transactions of the post office; submits postmaster's 
accounts with supporting vouchers and documents in accordance 
with existing instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including con-
tract stations, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and 
vehicular maintenance service, and submits bids, with recom-
mendations, as required. 
(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform 
work elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a district manager, 
§ 3523. Positions in salary level 12 
(a) POSTAL INSPECTOR. 
(KP-32) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible in an assigned territory, 
usually including all classes of post offices, for inspection and investi-
gative programs covering all phases of the postal service. In heavily 
populated areas may be assigned a majority of the time to selected 
types of work as determined by the inspector-in-charge. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.—ASSIGNED TERRITORY.— 
(A) Inspects post offices and related postal units to insure com-
pliance with postal laws and regulations, protection and proper 
expenditure of postal revenues and appropriated funds, and 
evaluates and reports to administrative officials on operational 
efficiency. 
(B) Maintains close working relationship with regional offi-
cials and submits to them factual information and recommenda-
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tions on conditions and needs of the postal service; acts as coun-
selor to postmasters and other postal officials and employees in 
explaining instructions, regulations, applicable laws and decisions. 
(C) Investigates violations of postal laws, including, but not 
limited to, armed robbery, mailing of bombs, burglary, theft of 
mail, embezzlements, obscene literature and pictures, and mail 
fraud. 
(D) Determines the validity and seriousness of charges against 
postmasters and other officers and employees and makes pertinent 
recommendations. 
(E) Investigates local and area operating problems and recom-
mends corrective action, and within his prescribed jurisdiction, 
initiates necessary corrective action, including restoration of 
service immediately in disaster areas caused by hurricanes, 
tornadoes, floods, and other catastrophes. 
(F) Maintains liaison activities (i) with military installations 
to insure adequate postal service for the military forces; (ii) with 
Federal and State civil defense authorities at the area level; (iii) 
with branches of Federal and State law enforcement agencies. 
(G) Ascertains postal needs for post offices and stations, rural 
and city delivery, changes in schedules, quarters, equipment, man-
power and procedures and reports findings and recommendations 
to appropriate officials. 
SELECTED CASES.— 
(H) Investigates the loss, theft, destruction, and damage to 
mail matter through technical analyses of complaints and other 
specialized procedures. 
(I) 
Investigates money-order forgeries; investigates com-
plaints of use of the mails to defraud and to operate lotteries. 
(J) Investigates personal injuries, motor-vehicle and other 
accidents; develops evidence for defense of suits under the 
so-called Federal Tort Claims Act; recommends out-of-court 
settlements. 
(K) In any criminal investigation, develops evidence, locates 
witnesses and suspects; apprehends and effects arrests of postal 
offenders, presents facts to United States attorney, and collabo-
rates as required with Federal and State prosecutors in presenta-
tion before United States commissioner, grand jury, and trial 
court. 
(L) Surveys postal service on an area basis to ascertain and 
recommend ways of improving service and effecting economies. 
(M) Makes investigations of a variety of other matters and 
performs related duties as assigned. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Responsible to the inspector-
in-charge or the assistant inspector-in-charge of the division. 
Super-
vises trainees and other inspectors as assigned. 
(b) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-^3) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services. This office has approxi-
mately seventy-two employees, annual receipts of $797,000, six Gov-
ernment-owned vehicle units, no classified stations, and seventeen 
carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide efficient and courteous postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
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(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations ^yith representatives of employee organizations and indi-
vidual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and de-
termines that operations are efficiently carried out and expendi-
tures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation 
and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post 
office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with appli-
cable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submit-
ted by operating officials of the post office for submission to the 
Supply Center or tile Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a district manager. 
§ 3524. Positions in salary level 13 
(a) STATION SUPERINTENDENT, LARGE CLASSIFIED 
STATION. (KP-34) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the operations of a large classified 
station, includiiTg the distribution, delivery, and dispatch of mail and 
all required window services to the public. 
(2) D U T I E S AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Plans and supervises the distribution of incoming and out-
going mails, the delivery service, including special delivery, and 
the dispatch of outgoing mail. 
(I>) Supervises services to the public at windows, including 
sales of stamps and stamped paper, money orders, postal savings 
stamps and certificates, migratory and documentary stamps, reg-
istry and insurance of mail; handling of c. o. d. items; general 
delivery and box mail. 
(C) Supervises city and rural carriers and determines that de-
livery schedules are maintained; consults in the adjustment and es-
tablishment of routes to reflect changes in volume, patronage, or 
population; and recommends establishment or changes in location 
of collection boxes. 
(D) Directs and maintains required records for personnel of 
station; verifies and approves timecards for payroll purposes; 
makes manpow^er estimates and reports; trains new supervisors 
and employees in various aspects of station operations. 
(E) Requisitions supplies and equipment, stamps, stamped 
paper, and accountable forms from main post office, reissuing to 
subordinates as required. Is responsible for entire fixed credit of 
station and for operation within the allowance granted. 
(F) Maintains effective relations with large mailers and the 
^ 
public; simplifies handling of mail, and takes appropriate action 
to meet complaints. 
(G) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Supervises the cleaning and custodial maintenance of 
the station building. 
(ii) Makes necessary arrangements for special services such 
as alien registrations, special census reports, or handling of 
special purpose mailing. 
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(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsi-
ble to a superintendent of mails or other designated superior. Di-
rects, through subordinate supervisors, approximately one thousand 
or more employees. 
(b) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-35) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, particularly on internal operations, and provides general di-
rection over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions 
of the post office. The office has approximately four hundred and 
fifty employees, annual receipts of $2,700,000, fifty Government-owned 
vehicle units, one classified station or branch, and one hundred and 
thirty carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and dis-
ciplining of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man-
power expenditures and is responsible through designated sub-
ordinates for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized 
allowances to operating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction by key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and admin-
istrative programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management 
of the post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to the postmaster. 
(c) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-36) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including the direction and supervision of mails, fi-
nance, buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post 
office, stations, and branches. This office has approximately one hun-
dred and eighty employees, annual receipts of $1,000,000, twenty-one 
Government-owned vehicle units, three classified stations, and sixty-
five carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organize the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide efficient and courteous postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
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determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained lor their respective positions. 
(D) ^Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and 
individual employees. 
(E) Kevievvs estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and 
determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expend-
itures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the 
post office, and for the expenditui-e of funds in acc'ordance with 
applicable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by o[)erating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Tenter or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL EELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible 
to a district manager. 
§ 3525. Positions in salary level 14 
(a) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-37) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, particularly on internal operations, and provides general di-
rection over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions 
of the post office. 
This office has approximately one thousand and two 
hundred employees, annual receipts of $8,460,000, one hundred and 
seventeen Government-owned vehicle units, sixteen classified stations 
and branches, and two hundred and ninety carrier routes within its 
jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and dis-
ciplining of post office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man-
power expenditures and is responsible through designated sub-
ordinates for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized 
allowances to operating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials 
in planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and admin-
istrative programs of the i:)ost office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates 
and attends to administrative matters essential to the manage-
ment of the post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationship with the public 
in tlie area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the 
post office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as 
required. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsible 
to the postmaster. 
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(b) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-38) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, sta-
tions, luid branches. This office has approximately four hundred and 
fifty employees, annual receipts of $2,700,000, fifty Government-owned 
vehicle units, one classified station or branch, and one hundred and 
thirty carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND KESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regula-
tions; determines that personnel are carefully selected and ade-
quately trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and 
individual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances, submits requests and recommendations as require(L 
and determines that operations are efficiently carried out and 
expenditures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post 
office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with 
applicable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a regional director or other designated superior. 
§ 3526. Positions in salary level 15 
(a) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-39) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, particularly on internal operations, and provides general di-
rection over the mails, finance, administrative and service functions 
of the post office. This office has approximately three thousand two 
hundred employees, annual receipts of $16,900,000, two hundred Gov-
ernment-owned vehicle units, thirty-four classified stations and 
branches, and one thousand carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
( B ) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and disci-
plining of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates 
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for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances 
to operating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials 
in planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and admin-
istrative programs of the post office. 
(G) Eeviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of 
the post office. 
(H) Eepresents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the 
post office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as 
required. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsi-
ble to the postmaster. 
(b) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-40) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, sta-
tions and branches. 
This office has approximately seven hundred 
employees, annual receipts of $4,470,000, seventy-seven Government-
owned vehicle units, eight classified stations and branches, and two 
hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure exj)editious handling of 
the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits i)rescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and indi-
vidual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and 
determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expendi-
tures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation 
and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post 
office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with appli-
cable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to the 
Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a regional director or other designated superior. 
§ 3527. Positions in salary level 16 
(a) GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, PTS DIVISION. (KP-41) 
(1) 
BASIC FUNCTION.—^Directs all activities of a division of the 
Postal Transportation Service of average size and complexity in terms 
of numbers of employees and in expenditure of funds, or in terms of the 
importance of the mail gateways in the division, the volume and 
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complexity of the mail and mail handling operations, and concentra-
tions which create congestions. Is responsible for the transportation, 
transfer, distribution, and dispatch of mail in transit, and for the 
efficient and economical operation of the division. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Directs and coordinates the activities of subordinate dis-
trict superintendents in planning and effectuating the transporta-
tion and processing of transit mail within, entering, or emanating 
from the division; confers with officials of commercial carriers 
regarding mail handling and transportation, schedules, security 
of mail in transit, and rates. 
(B) Provides, through his assistants, general supervision over 
the activities of the employees of the division. 
Establishes man-
power controls, effective employee relations, and inspections of 
personnel activities, both informally and as required by regula-
tions. 
(C) Exercises administrative control over the district superin-
tendents and, through them, the constituent field units such as 
transfer offices, airmail fields, terminals, railway post office lines, 
highway post office lines, and contract carriers such as star routes 
and mail messenger routes, and related operating units; maintains 
financial control of the division, reporting on expenditures and 
requirements as directed. 
(D) Maintains liaison with airlines, railroads, trucklines, and 
other contract carriers; contacts major publishers, mail-order 
houses, and other large volume patrons with respect ix) mass mail-
ing problems. 
(E) Coordinates division activities with those of contiguous 
divisions and with other segments of the Post Office Department 
within the area. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a regional director. 
Directs, through an assistant and district 
superintendents, up to three thousand three hundred employees. 
(b) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, LARGE FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-42) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, particularly on internal operations, and provides general 
direction over the mails, finance, administrative and service functions 
of the post office. 
This office has approximately eight thousand em-
ployees, annual receipts of $48,000,000, four hundred Government-
owned vehicle units, fifty classified stations and branches, and one 
thousand four hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and dis-
ciplining of post office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man-
power expenditures and is responsible through designated sub-
ordinates for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized 
allowances to operating units. 
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(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials 
in planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and ad-
ministrative programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates 
and attends to administrative matters essential to the management 
of the post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organiza-
tions. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the 
post office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as 
required. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—^Administratively responsi-
ble to the postmaster. 
(c) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-43) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, 
stations, and branches. 
This office has approximately one thousand 
two hundred employees, annual receipts of $8,460,000, one hundred and 
seventeen Government-owned vehicle units, sixteen classified stations 
and branches, and two hundred and ninety carrier routes within its 
jurisdiction. 
(2) 
D U T I E S AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling 
of the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service 
to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints all personnel to serve in the post office within 
the limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regu-
lations; determines that all personnel are carefully selected and 
adequately trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and 
individual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and 
determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expendi-
tures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the 
post office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with 
applicable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a regional director or other designated superior. 
§ 3528. Positions in salary level 17 
(a) GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, LARGEST PTS DIVISION. (KP-44) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs all activities of one of the largest 
divisions of the Postal Transportation Service in terms of numbers of 
employees and in expenditure of funds, as well as in terms of the im-
portance of the mail gateways in the division, the volume and com-
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plexity of the mail and mail handling operations, and concentrations 
which create congestions. Is responsible for the transportation, trans-
fer, distribution, and dispatch of mail in transit, and for the efficient 
and economical operation of the division. 
(2) D U T I E S AND RESPONsiBiLrriES.— 
(A) Directs and coordinates the activities of subordinate dis-
trict superintendents in planning and effectuating the transpor-
tation and processing of transit mail within, entering, or emanat-
ing from the division; confers with officials of commercial carriers 
regarding mail handling and transportation schedules, security 
of mails in transit, and rates. 
(B) Provides, through his assistants, general supervision over 
the activities of the employees of the division. 
Establishes man-
power controls, effective employee relations, and inspections of 
personnel activities, both informally and as required by regu-
lations. 
(C) Exercises administrative control over the district super-
intendents and, through them, the constituent field units such 
as transfer offices, air mail fields, terminals, railway post office 
lines, highway post office lines, and contract carriers such as star 
routes and mail messengers routes, and related operating units; 
maintains financial control of the division, reporting on expend-
itures and requirements as directed. 
(D) Maintains liaison with airlines, railroads, trucklines, and 
other contract carriers; contacts major publishers, mail-order 
houses, and other large volume patrons with respect to mass 
mailing problems. 
(E) Coordinates division activities with those of contiguous 
divisions and with other segments of the Post Office Department 
within the area. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a regional director. 
Directs, through an assistant and district 
superintendents, approximately three thousand three hundred or more 
employees. 
(b) ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, LARGEST FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-45) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the post-
master, particularly on internal operations, and provides general direc-
tion over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions of 
the post office. 
This office has approximately twenty thousand em-
ployees, annual receipts of $140,000,000, one thousand one hundred 
Government-owned motor-vehicle units, sixty-six classified stations 
and branches, and three thousand two hundred carrier routes within 
its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the 
office to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide 
courteous and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the 
postmaster by subordinates with respect to promotions and dis-
ciplining of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training 
of all personnel for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the ac-
countability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man-
power expenditures and is responsible through designated sub-
ordinates for maintaining proper apportionment of authorized 
allowances to operating units. 
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(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials 
in planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and admin-
istrative programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates 
and attends to administrative matters essential to the management 
of the post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the 
post office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as 
required. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to the postmaster. 
(c) POSTMASTER, FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-46) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first 
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office and 
stations and branches. 
This office has approximately three thousand 
two hundred employees, annual receipts of $16,900,000, two hundred 
Government-owned vehicle units, thirty-four classified stations and 
branches, and one thousand carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling 
of the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service 
to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and 
individual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and 
determines that operations are efficiently carried out and expendi-
tures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the 
post office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with 
. 
applicable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively 
respon-
sible to a regional director or other designated superior. 
§ 3529. Positions in salary level 18 
POSTMASTER, LARGE FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-47) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a large 
first class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, 
finance, buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office 
and stations and branches. 
This office has approximately eight thou-
sand employees, annual receipts of $48,000,000, four hundred Govern-
ment-owned vehicle units, fifty classified stations and branches, and 
one thousand four hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
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(2) DUTIES AND RKsroNsiniLiTiES.— 
(A) Oi-^ani/es the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the uiiiils iiiul to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(li) Ivopresents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the j)iiblic in the area. 
(C) A[)points |)ersonnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits pi-escribcd by Departmental and Civil Service Eegulations; 
determines tliat peisonnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Sui)ervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and 
individnal employees. 
(E) Keviews estimates of manpower needs and operating al-
lowances, snbmits requests and recommendations as required, and 
deternvines that operations are efficiently carried out and expend-
itures authoiized ni accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post 
office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with ap-
plicable laws and regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a regional director or other designated superior. 
§ 3530. Positions in salary level 19 
POSTMASTER, LARGEST FIRST CLASS OFFICE. (KP-48) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of one of 
the largest first class offices, including direction and supervision of 
mails, finance, buildings, personnel, and related services in the main 
post office, stations and branches. 
This office has approximately 
twenty thousand employees, annual receipts of $140,000,000, one thou-
sand one hundred Government-owned vehicle units, sixty-six classified 
stations and branches, and three thousand two hundred carrier routes 
within its jurisdiction. 
(2) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits i)rescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulation?; 
determines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee 
relations with representatives of employee organizations and in-
dividual employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances, submits requests and recommendations as required, 
and determines that operations are efficiently carried out and 
expenditures authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the opera-
tion and maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the 
post office, and for the expenditure of funds in accordance with 
applicable laws and regulations. 
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(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment sub-
mitted by operating officials of the post office for submission to 
the Supply Center or the Department. 
(3) ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to a regional director. 
§ 3531. Positions in salary level 20 
REGIONAL DIRECTOR. (KP-49) 
(1) BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the management of all postal ac-
tivities within the jurisdiction of an assigned region in accordance 
with basic departmental policies and with functional direction and 
guidance from Assistant Postmasters General. 
(2) 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Develops and formulates policies and practices for the 
region within basic policies and instructions of the Postmaster 
General. 
(B) Manages post office operations. 
(C) Administers routing, distribution, and transportation of 
mail within and in transit through the region. 
(D) Arranges for the provision of adequate facilities and 
equipment for all postal functions in the region. 
(E) Administers the personnel program of the region, includ-
ing employment, placement, training, evaluation of positions, 
employee relations, and other personnel functions. 
(F) Authorizes and issues allowances for all expenditures and 
exercises budgetary controls. 
(G) Administers cost reduction programs and provides indus-
trial engineering services to operating segments of the region. 
(H) Maintains effective public relations with the general pub-
lic, large mail users, and with Federal, State, and municipal 
authorities. 
(3) OKGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsi-
ble to the Deputy Postmaster General. 
Directs, through subordinate 
officials approximately thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand em-
ployees in some three thousand offices within the region. 
COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES 
§ 3541. Pay periods and computation of rates 
(a) Employees in the postal field service shall be paid compensation 
ill twenty-six installments. 
Each installment shall be the compen-
sation for a pay period of two weeks. 
(b) As basic compensation for a full pay period, an employee, other 
than an hourly rate employee, shall be paid an amount equal to one 
twenty-sixth of his annual basic compensation. As basic compensa-
tion for a portion of a pay period, the employee shall be paia basic 
compensation computed in accordance with subsection (d) of this 
section for the number of days and hours of service for which he has 
credit. 
(c) As basic compensation for the pay period, an hourly rate 
employee shall be paid an amount equal to the product of his hourly 
rate of basic compensation and the number of hours of service for 
which ho has credit. 
(d) For purposes of computing rates of compensation other than 
annual rates the following rules govern: 
(1) To compute an hourly rate of basic compensation for em-
ployees other than substitute employees, the annual rate of basic 
compensation shall be divided by 2,080. 
(2) To compute an hourly rate of basic compensation for sub-
stitute employees, the annual rate of basic compensation shall be 
divided by 2,016. 
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(3) To compute the daily rate of compensation for postmasters, 
postal inspectors, and rural carriers, the annual rate of compensa-
tion shall be divided by 312. 
(4) To compute the daily rate of basic compensation for annual 
rate employees other than postmasters, postal inspectors, and rural 
carriers, the hourly rate of basic compensation shall be multiplied 
by the number of daily hours of service required. 
(e) Except for lump-sum payments for accumulated leave upon 
the termination of employment, an annual rate employee shall not 
be paid more than one twenty-sixth of his basic compensation as basic 
compensation for a pay period. 
(f) Rates shall be computed to the nearest cent, counting one-half 
cent and over as a whole cent. 
(g) When a pay period for employees begins in one fiscal year 
and ends in another, the gross amount of the earnings of such em-
ployees for such pay period may be regarded as a charge against the 
appropriation or allotment current at the end of such pay period. 
(h) Wherever a temporary per annum rate is provided by a basic 
salary schedule contained in sections 3542, 3543, and 3544 of this title, 
the temporary rate shall be in effect, in lieu of the regular scheduled 
rate, for the period beginning on January 11, 1958, and ending on 
the last day of the last pay period which begins not more than tnree 
years after that date. 
§ 3542. Postal Field Service Schedule 
(a) There is established a basic salary schedule for positions in 
the postal field service which shall be known as the Postal Field 
Service Schedule, and for which the symbol shall be "PFS". 
Except 
as provided in sections 3543 and 3544 of this title, basic salary shall 
be paid to all employees in accordance with this schedule. 
POSTAL F I E L D S E R V I C E S C H E D U L E 
Level 
Per annum rates and steps 
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate. 
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate. 
Temporary rate -
Temporary rate. 
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
Temporary rate-
$3,095 
3,170 
3,320 
3,405 
3,580 
3,670 
3,935 
4,035 
4,170 
4,275 
4,505 
4,620 
4,870 
4,990 
5,255 
5,385 
5,675 
5,815 
6,235 
6,390 
6,860 
7,030 
7,545 
7,735 
8,310 
8,520 
9,140 
9,370 
10,050 
10,300 
11,075 
11,350 
12,255 
12,560 
13,760 
14,105 
15,050 
15,425 
16,000 
$3,205 
3,285 
3,435 
3,525 
3,705 
3,800 
4,070 
4,176 
4,305 
4,415 
4,655 
4,775 
5,035 
5,160 
5,440 
5,575 
5,875 
6,020 
6,450 
6,610 
7,095 
7,270 
7,805 
8,000 
8.590 
8,805 
9,440 
9,680 
10,375 
10,635 
11,400 
11,685 
12,580 
12,895 
14,085 
14,440 
15,375 
15,760 
$3,315 
3,400 
3,550 
3,645 
3,830 
3,930 
4,205 
4,315 
4,440 
4,555 
4,805 
4,930 
5,200 
5.330 
5,625 
5,765 
6,075 
6,225 
6,665 
6,830 
7,330 
7,510 
8,065 
8,265 
8,870 
9,090 
9,740 
9,990 
10,700 
10,970 
11,725 
12,020 
12,905 
13,230 
14,410 
14,775 
15,700 
15,900 
$3,425 
3,515 
3,665 
3,765 
3,955 
4,060 
4,340 
4,455 
4,575 
4,695 
4,955 
5,085 
5,365 
5,500 
5,810 
5,955 
6,275 
6,430 
6,880 
7,050 
7,565 
7,750 
8,325 
8,530 
9,150 
9,375 
10,040 
10,300 
11,025 
11,305 
12,050 
12,355 
13,230 
13, 565 
14, 735 
15,110 
15,900 
$3, 535 
3,630 
3,780 
3,885 
4,080 
4,190 
4,475 
4,595 
4,710 
4,835 
5,105 
5,240 
5,530 
5,670 
5,995 
6,145 
6,475 
6,635 
7,095 
7,270 
7,800 
7,990 
8,585 
8,795 
9,430 
9,660 
10,340 
10,610 
11,350 
11,640 
12,375 
12,690 
13, 555 
13,900 
15,060 
15,445 
$3,645 
3,745 
3,895 
4,005 
4,205 
4,320 
4,610 
4,735 
4,845 
4,975 
5,255 
5,395 
5,696 
5,840 
6,180 
6,335 
6,675 
6,840 
7,310 
7,490 
8,035 
8,230 
8,845 
9,060 
9,710 
9,945 
10,640 
10,920 
11,675 
11,975 
12,700 
13,025 
13,880 
14,235 
15,385 
15,780 
$3,755 
3,860 
4,010 
4,125 
4,330 
4,450 
4,745 
4,876 
4,980 
5,115 
5,405 
5,550 
5,800 
6,010 
6,365 
6,525 
6,875 
7,045 
7,525 
7,710 
8,270 
8,470 
9,105 
9,325 
9,990 
10,230 
10,940 
11,230 
12,000 
12,310 
13,025 
13,360 
14,205 
14, 570 
15,560 
15,780 
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(b) The basic salary for hourly rate employees shall be computed 
by dividing the per annum rates prescribed in the Postal Field Service 
Schedule (1) by 2,080 in the case of hourly rate employees other than 
substitutes, and (2) by 2,016 in the case of substitute employees. 
(c) In addition to the compensation provided under this section 
regular and substitute special delivery carriers and special delivery 
messengers at first class post offices shall be paid an automotive equip-
ment maintenance allowance at the rate of 7 cents per mile or major 
fraction thereof for miles traveled under the direction of the Depart-
ment in making delivery of special delivery mail or at the option of 
the Postmaster General at the rate of 90 cents per hour spent in mak-
ing delivery of special delivery mail. 
Payments for equipment 
maintenance shall be made at the same periods and in the same manner 
as payments of regular compensation. 
§ 3543. Rural Carrier Schedule 
(a) There is established a basic salary schedule which shall be 
known as the Rural Carrier Schedule, and for which the symbol shall 
be "RCS", for carriers in the rural delivery service, which is based 
in part on fixed compensation per annum and in part on specified rates 
per mile per annum. Basic salary shall be paid to rural carriers in 
accordance with this schedule. 
RUKAL CARRIER SCHEDULE 
Carriers in rural delivery service: 
Compensation per mile per annum for 
each mile up to 30 miles of route 
For each mile of route over 30 miles 
Temporary carriers in rural delivery service 
on routes to which no regular carrier is 
assigned: 
Fixed compensation per annum 
Temporary rate 
Compensation per mile per annum for 
For each mile of route over 30 miles 
Temporary carriers in rural delivery service 
on routes having regular carriers absent 
without pay or on military leave 
Substitute carriers in rural delivery service on 
routes having carriers absent with pay 
Per annum rates and steps 
1 
$1,841 
1,941 
65 
22 
1,841 
1,941 
65 
22 
(0 
2 
$1,896 
2,001 
67 
22 
3 
$1,951 
2,061 
69 
22 
4 
$2,006 
2,121 
71 
22 
5 
$2,061 
2,181 
73 
22 
(0 
6 
$2,116 
2,241 
75 
22 
7 
$2,171 
2,301 
77 
22 
(') 
(') 
' Basic compensation authorized for the regular carrier. 
(b) A rural carrier serving one triweekly route shall be paid on the 
basis of a route one-half the length of the route served by him. A 
rural carrier serving two triweekly routes shall be paid on the basis of 
a route one-half the combined length of the two routes. 
(c) The Postmaster General may pay such additional compensation 
as he may determine to be fair and reasonable in each individual case 
to rural carriers serving heavily ])atronized routes not exceeding sixty-
one miles in length. He may not pay additional compensation to a 
carrier serving such a route in an amount which would exceed $5,16.5 
during the period referred to in section 3541 (h) of this title, and 
$5,035 thereafter, when added to the basic salary for the maximum 
step in the Rural Carrier Schedule for his route. 
In case such a 
heavily patronized route is extended in length, the rural carrier 
assigned to the route at the time of the extension may not be reduced 
in pay. 
(d) The Postmaster General may pay additional compensation to 
rural carriers who are required to carry pouch mail to intermediate 
post offices, or for intersecting loop routes, in all cases where it appears 
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that the carriage of pouches increases the expense of the e(iuii)ment 
required by the carrier or materially increases the amount of labor 
performed by him. The compensation may not exceed the sum of $12 
per annum for each mile the carrier is required to carry the pouches, 
(e) In addition to the other compensation, rural carriers shall be 
paid the authorized fee for making special delivery of mail. The fee 
may not be paid when— 
^1) no special delivery service is rendered, 
[2) delivery is made into a rural mail box, or 
(3) delivery is made to the addressee or his representative on 
the rural carrier's route. 
(f) In addition to the compensation provided in the Rural (car-
rier Schedule, each rural carrier shall be paid for equipment main-
tenance a sum equal to— 
(1) 10 cents per mile for each mile or major fraction of a mile 
scheduled or 
(2) $3.50 per day, whichever is greater. 
In addition to the allowance provided by the proceedin^^ sen-
tence, the Postmaster General may pay such amount as he deter-
mines to be fair and reasonable, not in excess of $2.50 per day, to rural 
carriers entitled to additional compensation under subsection (c) of 
this section for servicing heavily patronized routes. Payment for 
equipment maintenance shall be made at the same periods and in the 
same manner as payments of regular compensation. 
(g) Any other employee in the postal field service who is assigned to 
serve a rural route, and who furnishes the vehicle used in the per-
formance of that service, shall be paid the equipment maintenance 
allowance provided for the route so served, in addition to his compen-
sation. 
(h) The length of rural routes shall be determined in accordance 
with records of the Department. 
The Postmaster General shall 
change the records whenever he determines they are not correct. 
§ 3544. Fourth Class Office Schedule 
(a) There is established a basic salary schedule which shall be 
known as the Fourth Class Office Schedule, and for which the symbol 
shall be "FOS", for postmasters in post offices of the fourth class 
which is based on the gross postal receipts as contained in returns 
of the post office for the calendar year immediately preceding. Basic 
salary shall be paid to postmasters in post offices of the fourth class 
in accordance with this schedule, and basic salary so paid, together 
with other forms of compensation provided by this title, shall replace 
existing forms of compensation for those postmasters. 
F O U R T H CLASS O F F I C E S C H E D U L E 
Gross receipts 
$1,300 to $1,499.99... 
Temporary rate 
$900 to $1,299.99 
Temporary rate 
$600 to $899.99 
Temporary rate 
$350 to $599.99 
Temporary rate 
$250 to $349.99 
Temporary rate 
$200 to $249.99 
Temporary rate 
$100 to $199.99 
Temporary rate 
Under $100 
Temporary rate 
$2,703 
2,771 
2,477 
2,539 
2,027 
2,078 
1,577 
1,616 
1,127 
1,155 
901 
924 
676 
693 
450 
461 
Per annum rates and steps 
$2,793 
2,863 
2,559 
2,623 
2,094 
2,148 
1,629 
1,669 
1,164 
1,193 
931 
954 
698 
715 
465 
476 
$2,883 
2,955 
2,641 
2,707 
2,161 
2,218 
1,681 
1,722 
1,201 
1,231 
961 
984 
720 
737 
480 
491 
$2,973 
3,047 
2,723 
2,791 
2,228 
2,288 
1,733 
1,775 
1,238 
1,269 
991 
1,014 
742 
759 
495 
506 
$3,063 
3,139 
2,805 
2,875 
2,295 
2,358 
1,785 
1,828 
1,275 
1,307 
1,021 
1,044 
764 
781 
510 
521 
$3,153 
3,231 
2,887 
2,959 
2,362 
2,428 
1,837 
1,881 
1,312 
1,345 
1,051 
1,074 
786 
803 
525 
536 
$3,243 
3,323 
2,969 
3,043 
2,429 
2,498 
1,889 
1,934 
1,349 
1,383 
1,081 
1,104 
808 
826 
540 
561 
648 
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[74 STAT. 
(b) The basic salary of postmasters in fourth class post offices shall 
be readjusted for changes in gross receipts at the start of the first 
pay period after the beginning of each fiscal year. In adjusting a 
postmaster's basic salary under this section the basic salary shall be 
fixed at the lowest step which is higher than the basic salary received 
by the postmaster at the end of the preceding fiscal year. If there is 
no such step the basic salary shall be fixed at the highest step for 
the adjusted gross receipts of the office. Each increase in basic salary 
because of change in gross receipts shall be deemed the equivalent 
of a step-increase under section 3552 of this title and the waiting 
period, for purposes of advancement to the next step, shall begin on the 
date of adjustment. 
(c) The basic salaries of postmasters at newly established offices 
of the fourth class shall be fixed at the lowest salary rate. Whenever 
unusual conditions prevail at any post office of the fourth class the 
Postmaster General may advance such office to the appropriate cate-
gory or class indicated by the receipts of the preceding quarter. Any 
fourth class office advanced to the appropriate category or class pur-
suant to this subsection shall not be reduced in category or class until 
the start of the first pay period after July 1 of the calendar year fol-
lowing the calendar year in which it was so advanced, at which time it 
shall be assigned to the category or class indicated by the receipts for 
the preceding calendar year. 
(d) Persons who perform the duties of postmaster at post offices 
of the fourth class where there is a vacancy or during the absence of 
the postmaster on sick or annual leave, or leave without pay, shall be 
paid the same basic salary to which they would have been entitled if 
regularly appointed as postmaster. 
(e) The Postmaster General may allow to postmasters in fourth 
class post offices additional compensation for separating services and 
for unusual conditions during a portion of the year, in lieu of an 
allowance for clerical services for this purpose. 
(f) At seasonal post offices of the fourth class, the Postmaster Gen-
eral may authorize the payment of the basic salary prorated over the 
pay periods the office is open for business during the fiscal year. 
(g) Where the gross postal receipts of a post office of the third class 
for each of two consecutive calendar years are less than $1,500, or 
where in any calendar year the gross postal receipts are less than 
$1,400, the post office shall be relegated to the fourth class and the 
basic salary of the postmaster shall be fixed in the manner provided 
in subsection (b) of this section. 
(h) Postmasters of fourth class post offices shall be paid as allow-
ances for rent, fuel, light, and equipment an amount equal to 15 per 
centum of the basic compensation earned in each pay period, at the 
same time and in the same manner as their regular compensation. 
SALARY 
STEPS 
AND PEOMOTIONS 
§ 3551. Appointments to positions in the postal field service 
(a) The Postmaster General may appoint any person who has been 
employed in a civilian capacity in any branch of the Government to 
any position in a regional or district office or to any professional or 
scientific position and may place him in any step in the salary level 
of the Postal Field Service Schedule which is less than one full step 
above the highest basic salary which he received from the United 
States. 
(b) The Postmaster General may appoint any employee of the 
legislative branch whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary 
of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and who 
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649 
has completed two or more years of service as such an employee, to 
any position in the postal field service and may fix his initial rate of 
compensation at the minimum rate of the appropriate level of the 
basic salary schedule applicable to the position, or at any step of that 
level that does not exceed the highest previous rate of compensation 
received by him during his service in the legislative branch. 
§ 3552. Automatic advancement by step increases 
(a) Except as to a substitute employee in the Postal Trans-
portation Service whose position is allocated to salary level PFS-5 
as a distribution clerk in a railway or highway post office, each 
employee whose position is allocated to the Rural Carrier Sched-
ule, the Fourth Class Office Schedule, or the Postal Field Service 
Schedule, who has not reached the highest step for his posi-
tion, shall be advanced successively to the next higher step for 
his position at the beginning of the first pay period following the 
completion of each fifty-two calendar weeks of satisfactory service, 
if no equivalent increase in basic salary from any cause was received 
during the period of fifty-two calendar weeks. The benefit of suc-
cessive step-increases shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed 
by the Postmaster General, for employees whose continuous service 
is interrupted by service in the Armed Forces. 
(b) Each substitute employee in the Postal Transportation Service, 
whose position is allocated to salary level PFS-5 as a distribution 
clerk in a railway or highway post office, shall be advanced in the 
manner prescribed for other employees under subsection (a) of this 
section, but may not be advanced beyond step four of salary level 
FFS-5. 
§ 3553. Creditable service for advancement 
Each employee in the postal field service is eligible to earn step-
increases in accordance with this chapter. Except for temporary rural 
carriers serving in the absence of regular rural carriers on leave with-
out pay or on military leave, credit may not be allowed for time on 
the rolls under a temporary appointment for one year or less unless 
the time on the rolls is continuous to the date of appointment to a 
position of unlimited duration. 
§ 3554. Compensation of certain temporary employees 
Temporary employees hired for a continuous period of one year or 
less for a position under the Postal Field Service Schedule shall be 
paid a basic salary at the entrance step for the salary level of the 
position to which they are appointed. 
§ 3555. Reduction in salary step 
The Postmaster General may reduce in salary step clerks or car-
riers whose efficiency falls below a fair standard or whenever it is 
necessary for purposes of discipline. 
At the beginning of any pay 
period commencing ninety days after a reduction in salary of such 
an employee, the Postmaster General may restore him to his former 
salary or advance him to an intermediate salary. 
That action is not 
regarded as an "equivalent increase in basic salary." 
§ 3556. Automatic advancement withheld 
At the beginning of any pay period commencing ninety days after 
the withholding of an automatic advancement of an employee for un-
satisfactory service, the Postmaster General may advance him, on 
evidence that his record has been satisfactory during the intervening 
period. 
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[74 STAT. 
§ 3557. Automatic advancement of substitute employee deferred 
The Postmaster General shall defer the automatic promotion of a 
substitute employee who is absent on leave without pay and not avail-
able for duty for ninety days or more during a calendar year in propor-
tion to the time the employee is absent on leave without pay. 
§ 3558. Longevity step increases 
(a) There are established for each employee longevity steps A, B, 
and C. 
For each promotion to a longevity step— 
(1) each postmaster at a post office of the fourth class shall 
receive an amount equal to 5 per centum of his basic salary, or 
$100 per annum, whichever is the lesser, and 
(2) each employee, other than a postmaster at a post office of 
the fourth class, shall receive $100 per annum. 
In computing the percentage increase under this subsection the amount 
of the increase shall be rounded to the nearest dollar. 
A half dollar 
or one-half cent shall be rounded to the next highest dollar or cent, 
respectively. 
(b) Each employee shall be assigned to— 
(1) longevity step A at the beginning of the pay period follow-
ing the completion of thirteen years of service; 
(2) longevity step B at the beginning of the pay period follow-
ing the completion of eighteen years of service; and 
(3) longevity step C at the beginning of the pay period follow-
ing the completion of twenty-five years of service. 
(c) (1) There shall be credited, for the purposes of subsection 
(b) time on the rolls— 
(A) in the postal field service or in the Post Office Department, 
except time on the rolls as a substitute rural carrier; 
_^ 
(B) in the custodial service of the Department of the Treasury 
continuous to the date of the transfer of the employee to the 
custodial service of the Post Office Department in accordance 
with Executive Order Numbered 6166, dated June 10,1933; 
(C) as a special delivery messenger at a first class post office; 
(D) as a clerk in a third class post office for which payment is 
made from authorized allowances; 
(E) under the Postal Accounts Division, including time on the 
rolls under the former Post Office Department Division, in the 
General Accounting Office continuous to the date of the transfer 
of the employee to the Post Office Department in accordance with 
section 7 (a) of the Post Office Department Financial Control 
64 Stat. 460. 
Act of 1950; and 
(F) in the Panama Canal Zone postal service. 
(2) In determining longevity credit for the purposes of subsection 
(b) in the case of an employee whose continuous service in the postal 
field service or in the departmental service of the Post Office Depart-
ment is interrupted by service with the Armed Forces or to comply 
with a transfer during war or national emergency as defined by the 
United States Civil Service Commission, time engaged in that service 
with the Armed Forces or on the transfer shall be credited pro rata 
for each week of the service. 
Service specified in this subsection, 
whether continuous or intermittent, shall be credited on the basis of 
one week for each whole week the employee has been on the rolls, 
except that credit may not be allowed for time on the rolls under 
a temporary appointment for one year or less unless the time on the 
rolls is continuous to the date of appointment to a position of unlim-
ited duration. 
(d) Increases under this section are not equivalent increases within 
the meaning of section 3552 of this title. 
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(e) Payment of longevity compensation may not be made by reason 
of clause (F) of subsection (c) (1) of this section, for any period prior 
to September 6,1958. 
§ 3559. 
Promotions 
(a) An employee who is promoted or transferred to a position 
in a higher salary level of the Postal Field Service Schedule shall 
be paid basic salary at the lowest step of the higher salary level which 
exceeds his existing basic salary by not less than the amount of 
difference between the entrance step of the salary level from which 
promoted and the entrance step of the salary level immediately above 
the salary level from w^hich promoted. If there is no step in the salary 
level to which the employee is promoted which exceeds his existing 
basic salary by at least the amount of the difference, the employee 
shall be paid (1) the maximum step of the salary level to which pro-
moted, or (2) his existing basic salary, whichever is higher. 
(b) Regular clerks and carriers in first and second class post offices 
are not eligible for promotion to positions of higher salary levels in 
their respective offices unless they are in the maximum steps of their 
respective salary levels. If for any reason clerks and carriers in the 
maximum steps are not available those clerks and carriers in the 
lower steps in the offices are eligible for the promotion. 
HOURS 
OF 
WORK 
AND 
OVERTIME 
§ 3571. Maximum hours of work 
Except as otherwise provided in this title, employees may not be 
required to work more than eight hours a day. 
The work schedule 
of employees shall be regulated so that the eight hours of service 
does not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours. 
§ 3572. Minimum hours of work for hourly rate employees 
Each substitute, hourly rate, and temporary employee who re-
ports for duty in compliance with an official order shall be employed 
for not less than two hours following the hour at which he is ordered 
to report. 
§ 3573. Compensatory time, overtime, and holidays 
In emergencies or if the needs of the service require, the Post-
master General may require employees to work more than eight hours 
in one day, or on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays. 
For that service 
he shall grant employees in the " P F S " Schedule compensatory time 
or pay them overtime compensation under the following rules: 
(1) Each employee in or below salary level PFS-7 shall be 
paid for all work in excess of eight hours in one day at the rate of 
150 per centum of his hourly basic compensation. 
(2) (A) Each employee in or below salary level PFS-7 who 
performs work on Saturdays or Sundays shall, under regulations 
prescribed by the Postmaster General, be granted compensatory 
time in an amount equal to the excess time worked within five 
working days, except that, in lieu of such compensatory time, the 
Postmaster General may, if the exigencies of the service require, 
authorize him to be paid, for work performed on Saturdays and 
Sundays during the month of December, at the rate of 150 per 
centum of his hourly basic compensation. 
(B) If the work performed by such employees on Saturdays 
and Sundays is less than eight hours, such service, in the discre-
tion of the Postmaster General may be carried forward and com-
bined with similar service performed on other Saturdays and 
Sundays. 
The employees may be allowed compensatory time for 
combined service or any part thereof at any time, except that, 
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[74 STAT. 
whenever at least eight hours of such service has been accumulated, 
the employees shall be allowed eight hours compensatory time on 
one day within five working days next succeeding the Saturday or 
Sunday on which the total accumulated service was at least eight 
hours. 
(3) For time worked on a day referred to as a holiday in sec-
tion 87b of title 5, or on a day designated by Executive order as a 
holiday for Federal employees generally, each employee in or 
below salary level PFS-7, under regulations prescribed by the 
Postmaster General, shall either be granted compensatory time in 
an amount equal to the time worked within thirty working days, 
or be paid premium compensation at a rate equal to his nourly 
basic compensation for the time so worked. 
For work performed 
on Christmas Day, premium compensation shall be paid at a 
rate equal to 150 per centum of the employee's hourly basic 
compensation. 
(4) Each employee in or above salary level PFS-8 who per-
forms overtime of holiday work as described in this section, 
under regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, shall be 
granted compensatory time in an amount equal to the overtime or 
holiday work. 
§ 3574. Night work 
Employees who perform work between the hours of 6 o'clock post 
meridian and 6 o'clock ante meridian standard or daylight saving 
time, depending upon which time is observed where the work is 
performed, shall be paid extra compensation for each hour of that 
work at the rate of 10 per centum of their hourly basic compensation. 
The differential for night duty is not included in computing overtime 
compensation to which the employees may be entitled. 
§ 3575. 
Exemptions 
(a) Sections 3571, 3573 and 3574 of this title do not apply to the 
heads of regional or district offices and such other employees of the 
headquarters staff of regional and district offices as the Postmaster 
General designates, or to postmasters, rural carriers, post office inspec-
tors, traveling mechanicians, and traveling examiners of equipment 
and supplies. 
(b) Sections 3571 and 3573 of this title do not apply to substitute 
employees and to employees in the Postal Transportation Service and 
the Motor Vehicle Service assigned to road duty. 
(c) Section 3571 of this title does not apply to employees in post 
offices of the third class. 
(d) The provisions of section 3573 of this title relating to compen-
satory time and overtime compensation for work on Saturdays or 
Sundays do not apply to hourly rate regular employees and to em-
ployees in post offices of the third class. 
§ 3576. Holiday service of rural carriers and employees assigned 
to road duty 
When the President of the United States authorizes Federal em-
ployees generally to be excused from duty on a work day, rural car-
riers and employees in the Postal Transportation Service or in the 
Motor Vehicle Service who are assigned to road duty, other than 
substitutes, who are required to work on such a day, shall be granted 
a day off, with pay and without charge thereof to their earned annual 
leave, within one year thereafter. 
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SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR POSTAL TRANSPORTATION 
AND MOTOR VEHICLE SERVICES 
§ 3581. Road duty employees 
(a) The Postmaster General shall organize the work of employees 
in the Postal Transportation Service and the Motor Vehicle Service 
who are assigned to road duty into regularly scheduled tours of duty. 
The tours of duty shall aggregate an average of not more than eight 
hours a day for two hundred and fifty-two days a year, including an 
allowance of one hour and thirty-five minutes for work to be per-
formed on layoff periods. He may not grant allowances of time for 
work performed on layoff periods to employees other than employees 
engaged in the distribution of mail. 
(b) Employees in the Postal Transportation Service and the Motor 
Vehicle Service assigned to road duty, except substitute employees, 
who are required to perform work in excess of the scheduled time of 
their regular tours of duty as established by the Postmaster General 
shall be paid at the rate of 150 per centum of their hourly basic com-
pensation for overtime work. 
In arriving at the amount of over-
time to be paid at any time during the calendar year, any deficiencies 
accrued up to that time during the same calendar year shall be offset 
against any overtime work by the employee. 
(c) Substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service and 
the Motor Vehicle Service assigned to road duty shall be paid on an 
hourly basis for actual work performed according to the time value 
of each trip of road duty, including an allowance of time for all 
work required on layoff periods. 
(d) In addition to compensation provided under this title, the 
Postmaster General, under regulations prescribed by him, may pay 
not more than $9 per day as travel allowances in lieu of actual 
expenses, at fixed rates per annum or by such other method as he deems 
equitable to regular and substitute employees in the Postal Transpor-
tation Service and the Motor Vehicle Service who are assigned to road 
duty, after the expiration of ten hours from the time the initial run 
begins. 
(e) Substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service and 
the Motor Vehicle Service shall be credited with full time while travel-
ing under orders of the Post Office Department to and from their 
designated headquarters to take up assignments. 
§ 3582. Time credit for delay to trains and highway post offices 
The Postmaster General shall credit postal transportation em-
ployees assigned to road duty with full time for delays to trains and 
highway post offices. 
PART IV—MAIL MATTER 
CHAPTER 
Sec. 
r^l. NONMAILABLE MATTER 
4001 
f58. T H E SEVERAL CLASSES OF MAIL 
4051 
.55. SHORT PAID AND UNDEUVERABLE MAIL 
4101 
57. PENALTY AND FRANKED MAIL 
4151 
59. FIRST CLASS MAIL 
4251 
61. AIR MAIL AND AIR PARCEL POST 
4301 
63. SECOND CLASS MAIL AND CONTROLLED CIRCULATION PUBLICATIONS 
4351 
65. THIRD CLASS MAIL 
4451 
67. FOURTH CLASS MAIL 
4551 
69. POSTAGE RATES FOR MISCELLANEOUS MATTER W I T H I N 
THE VARIOUS 
CLASSES 
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[74 ST AT. 
CHAPTER 51—NONMAILABLE MATTER 
Sec. 
4001. Nonmailable matter. 
4002. Nonmailable fourth class matter. 
4003. Mail bearing a fictitious name or address. 
4004. Delivery of mail to persons not residents of the place of address. 
4005. Fraudulent and lottery matter. 
4006. "Unlawful" matter. 
4007. Detention of mail for temporary periods. 
§ 4001. Nonmailable matter 
(a) Matter, the deposit of which in the mails is punishable under 
sections 1302, 1341, 1342, 1461, 1463, 1714,1715, 1716, 1717, or 1718 of 
title 18, is nonmailable. 
(b) Except as provided in section 4002 of this title, nonmailable 
matter which reaches the office of delivery, or which may be seized or 
detained for violation of law, shall be disposed of as the Postmaster 
General directs. 
§ 4002. Nonmailable fourth class matter 
(a) Matter of the fourth class is nonmailable which— 
(1) exceeds the prescribed size and weight limits; or 
(2) is of a character perishable within the period required for 
transportation and delivery. 
(b) Matter made nonmailable by this section which by inadvert-
ence reaches the office of destination may be delivered in accordance 
with its address, if the party addressed furnishes the name and 
address of the sender. 
If the person addressed refuses to furnish the 
information, the package shall be disposed of as the Postmaster 
General directs. 
§ 4003. Mail bearing a fictitious name or address 
(a) Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postmaster General that any 
person is using a fictitious, false or assumed name, title or address in 
conducting, promoting or carrying on or assisting therein, by means 
of the postal service of the United States, an activity in violation of 
sections 1302,1341, and 1342 of title 18, the Postmaster General may— 
(1) withhold mail so addressed from delivery; and 
(2) require the party claiming the mail to furnish proof to 
him of the claimant's identity and right to receive the mail. 
(b) The Postmaster General may issue an order directing that mail, 
covered by subsection (a), be forwarded to a dead letter office as 
fictitious matter, or be returned to the senders when the— 
(1) party claiming the mail fails to furnish proof of his 
identity and right to receive the mail; or 
(2) the Postmaster General is satisfied that the mail is ad-
dressed to a fictitious, false or assumed name, title or address. 
§ 4004. 
Delivery of mail to persons not residents of the place of 
address 
'Whenever the Postmaster General is satisfied that letters or parcels 
sent in the mail are addressed to places not the residence or regular 
business address of the person for whom they are intended, to enable 
the person to escape identification, he may deliver the mail only upon 
identification of the persons so addressed. 
§ 4005. Fraudulent and lottery matter 
(a) Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postmaster General that any 
person is engaged in conducting a scheme or device for obtaining 
money or property through the mail by means of false or fraudulent 
pretenses, representations, or promises; or engaged in conducting 
a lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money 
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655 
or of real or personal property by lottery, chance, or drawing of any 
kind; the Postmaster General may— 
(1) direct postmasters at the office at which registered letters 
or other letters or mail arrive, addressed to such a person or to 
his representative, to return the registered letters or other let-
ters or mail to the sender marked "fraudulent" or "lottery mail"; 
and 
(2) forbid the payment by a postmaster to such a person 
or his representative of any money order or postal note drawn to 
the order of either and provide for the return to the remitters 
of the sums named in tlie money orders or postal notes. 
(b) The public advertisement by a person engaged in activities 
covered by subsection (a) of this section, that remittances may be 
made by mail to a person named in the advertisement, is prima facie 
evidence that the latter is the agent or representative of the advertiser 
for the receipt of remittances on behalf of the advertiser. The Post-
master General is not precluded from ascertaining the existence of 
the agency in any other legal way satisfactory to him. 
(c) As used in this section and section 4006 of this title the term 
"representative" includes an agent or representative acting as an 
individual or as a firm, bank, corporation, or association of any kind. 
§ 4006. "Unlawful" matter 
Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postmaster General that a per-
son is obtaining or attempting to obtain remittances of money or 
property of any kind through the mail for an obscene, lewd, las-
civious, indecent, filthy, or vile article, matter, thing, device, or sub-
stance, or is depositing or causing to be deposited in the United States 
mail information as to where, how, or from whom the same may be 
obtained, the Postmaster General may— 
(1) direct postmasters at the office at which registered letters 
or other letters or mail arrive, addressed to such a person or to his 
representative, to return the registered letters or other letters 
or mail to the sender marked "Unlawful"; and 
(2) forbid the payment by a postmaster to such a person 
or his representative of any money order or postal note drawn 
to the order of either and provide for the return to the remitters 
of the sums named in the money orders or postal notes. 
§ 4007. Detention of mail for temporary periods 
(a) When the Postmaster General determines during proceedings 
before him that in the administration of section 4006 of this title such 
action is necessary to the effective enforcement of the section, he may 
enter an interim order directing that mail addressed to any person 
be detained by the postmaster at the post office of delivery for twenty 
days from the effective date of the order. Notice of the order, advis-
ing the person of the detention and setting forth in specific detail 
the reasons therefor, together with a copy of this section and section 
4006 of this title, shall be sent forthwith by registered or certified 
mail to the person at the post office at which the mail is to be detained. 
An order for the detention of mail addressed to a person expires at 
the end of the twenty days after the issuance thereof unless the 
Postmaster General files, prior to the expiration of the twenty-day 
period, a petition in the United States district court for the district 
in which the post office in which the mail is detained is situated, and 
obtains an order directing that mail addressed to the person be de-
tained for such further period as the court determines. Notice of the 
filing of such a petition shall be given forthwith by the clerk of the 
court in which it is filed to the person, at the post office at which the 
mail is being detained, or otherwise as the clerk of the court deter-
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[74 STAT. 
mines to be appropriate, and the person shall have five days in which 
to appear and show cause why the order should not issue. 
If, upon all the evidence before it, the court determines that the 
continued detention of the mail is reasonable and necessary to the 
effective enforcement of section 4006 of this title, it shall forthwith 
issue an order directing that mail addressed to that person be detained 
by the postmaster at the office of delivery until conclusion of the pro-
ceeding by the Postmaster General or until further order of the court. 
If, upon all the evidence before it, the court determines, that the con-
tinued detention of the mail addressed is not reasonable or necessary 
in the administration of section 4006 of this title, it shall dismiss the 
petition and order all detained mail addressed to him to be released 
forthwith for delivery. 
An appeal from the order of the court is allowable as in civil 
causes. An order of the Postmaster General or of the district court, 
under this section, may be dissolved by that court at any time for cause, 
including failure to conduct expeditiously the proceedings instituted 
against the person before the Postmaster General with respect to 
section 4006 of this title. When, under an order herein authorized 
to be issued by the Postmaster General or the district court, a person's 
mail is detained by the postmaster at the office of delivery, that person 
may examine the mail and receive such mail as clearly is not connected 
with the alleged unlawful activity. 
(b) Action by the Postmaster General in issuing the interim order 
provided for herein and petitioning for a continuance of an order 
5 ° use* 1001 et under this section, is not subject to chapter 19 of title 5. 
seq. 
(c) This section does not apply to mail addressed to publishers of 
publications which have entry as second-class matter, or to mail ad-
dressed to the agents of those publishers. 
CHAPTER 53—THE SEVERAL CLASSES OF MAIL 
Sec 
4051. Prepayment of postage. 
4052. Method of paying postage. 
4053. Postage meters. 
4054. Postage collection on Armed Forces mail. 
4055. Refund of postage. 
4056. Acceptance of letters by transportation employees or carriers. 
4057. Opening first class mail. 
4058. Wrapping matter not charged with first class postage. 
4059. Addresses on postal cards and unsealed circulars. 
4060. Foreign publications free from customs duty. 
§ 4051. Prepayment of postage 
Except as otherwise provided by law, postage shall be prepaid at 
the time of mailing. 
§ 4052. Method of paying postage 
(a) Postage may be prepaid— 
(1) by postage stamps; 
(2) by postage meter stamps; 
(8) without stamps as prescribed by the Postmaster General 
for second class matter mailed by the publisher or registered news 
agent: 
(4) as prescribed by the Postmaster General for controlled 
circulation publications or for matter mailed at the bulk rates; or 
(5) under a permit, without stamps, issued by the Postmaster 
General. 
(b) The fee for a permit under subsection (a) (5) is $10 and shall 
be paid at the time of application. 
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§ 4053. Postage meters 
A postage meter is a device or mechanism to print prepaid postage 
on mail matter, which automatically locks when the amount of 
postage registered therein is exhausted. 
Meters in the possession of 
patrons shall be set by postmasters for the amount of postage col-
lected at the time of setting. 
Mail on which postage is paid by means 
of a postage meter is called "metered mail". 
The impressions made 
by postage meters are called "meter stamps". 
§ 4054. Postage collection on Armed Forces mail 
The Postmaster General may transmit, without the prepayment of 
postage, letters of members of the Armed Forces in the service of the 
United States certified in a manner prescribed by him, and collect the 
postage upon delivery. 
§ 4055. Refund of postage 
The Postmaster General may refund out of postal receipts postage 
which he is satisfied has been— 
(1) paid for service not rendered; or 
(2) collected in excess of the lawful rate. 
§ 4056. Acceptance of letters by transportation employees or 
carriers 
A postal transportation employee or other carrier of the mail shall 
accept letters presented to him on which postage is properly prepaid 
by stamps. 
§ 4057. Opening first class mail 
Only an employee opening dead mail by authority of the Post-
master General, or a person holding a search warrant authorized by 
law may open any letter or parcel of the first class which is in the 
custody of the Department. 
§ 4058. Wrapping matter not charged with first class postage 
(a) The Postmaster General may prescribe the manner of wrapping 
and securing mail not charged with first class postage so that the 
contents of the mail may be easily examined. He shall charge the 
first class rate of postage on all matter which cannot be examined 
easily. 
(b) To ascertain whether the proper rate of postage has been paid, 
postmasters may examine second class mail and remove the wrappers 
and envelopes from other mail not bearing first class postage if it 
can be done without destroying them. 
§ 4059. Addresses on postal cards and unsealed circulars 
Addresses upon postal cards, post cards and unsealed circulars may 
be either written, printed, or affixed thereto, at the option of the sender. 
§ 4060. Foreign publications free from customs duty 
(a) Printed matter other than books received in the mail from 
foreign countries under the provisions of postal treaties or conventions 
are free of customs duty. 
(b) Wlien books which are admitted to the international mail under 
the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention are subject 
to customs duty, they may be delivered by the Postmaster General as 
addressed under such regulations for the collection of duties as may 
be agreed upon by him and the Secretary of the Treasury. 
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CHAPTER 55—SHORT 
PAID 
AND UNDBLIVERABLE 
MAIL 
Sec. 
4101. Retention period for undelivered mail. 
4102. Forwaxding mail. 
4103. Return of mail. 
4104. International dead letters. 
4105. Disposal of undelivered mail. 
4106. Notice of nondelivery of mail. 
4107. Dead letter offices established. 
4108. Dead letter treatment of first class malL 
4109. Unpaid and part paid mail. 
4110. Charges for unpaid and part paid mail. 
§ 4101. Retention period for undelivered mail 
The Postmaster General may prescribe the period during which 
undelivered mail may be held for delivery. 
§ 4102. Forwarding mail 
The Postmaster General shall forward prepaid first class mail from 
one post office to another at the request of the party addressed without 
additional charge for postage. He shall charge additional postage on 
mail of other classes forwarded from one post office to another in 
accordance with section 4105 of this title. 
§ 4103. Return of mail 
Prepaid letters or parcels of the first class endorsed with the 
sender's name and address shall be returned by the Postmaster General 
without additional charge for postage if remaining undelivered for the 
period directed by the sender or as prescribed by the Postmaster 
General. He may not return other mail matter unless the sender 
pays additional postage in accordance with section 4105 of this title. 
§ 4104. International dead letters 
The Postmaster General shall treat international dead letters in 
accordance with postal arrangements made with other countries pur-
suant to section 505 of this title. 
§ 4105. Disposal of undelivered mail 
(a) Undelivered mail, other than letters and parcels of the first 
class, may be— 
(1) disposed of as the Postmaster General directs; or 
(2) forwarded to the addressee or returned to the sender. 
The postage for the service may be prepaid or collected on delivery 
in accordance with the instructions and pledge of the addressee or 
sender. 
(b) The Postmaster General may prescribe conditions under which 
mail covered by subsection (a), including mail which is of an urgent 
or perishable nature, and for which payment of forwarding or return 
postage is not pledged, may be forwarded or returned. 
(c) The Postmaster General may sell undelivered parcels contain-
ing perishable matter, not forwarded or returned. He shall remit 
to the sender or rightful owner the amount realized, less a commission 
of 10 per centum, or 25 cents, whichever is the greater. 
§ 4106. Notice of nondelivery of mail 
(a) The Postmaster General may notify the sender or addressee 
when mail, other than mail of the first class, is undeliverable as ad-
dressed. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall notify the publisher or news 
agent when copies of a publication of the second class mailed by 
him are undeliverable as addressed. Copies of publications unde-
liverable as addressed received subsequent to the notice may be treated 
as directed by the Postmaster General. 
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§ 4107. Dead letter offices established 
The Postmaster General may designate places, known as dead letter 
offices, for the examination and treatment of dead mail. 
§ 4108. Dead letter treatment of first class mail 
(a) The Postmaster General shall send first class mail which cannot 
be delivered either to the addressee or sender to a dead letter office. 
He shall cause enclosures of value, other than correspondence, to be 
recorded. When the sender or addressee cannot be identified, he shall 
hold the letters or parcels for reclamation for a period of one year 
after which they shall be disposed of as he directs. Letters and parcels 
without valuable enclosures may be disposed of by him without record 
and not held for reclamation. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall return to the senders by regis-
tered mail ordinary dead letters containing $10 or more in cash, 
and parcels of the first class which apparently contain matter valued 
at $10 or more. The minimum registry fee, in addition to such other 
fees as the Postmaster General may prescribe, shall be collected at the 
time of delivery. 
§ 4109. Unpaid and part paid mail 
The Postmaster General shall prescribe the conditions for delivery 
to the addressee, return to the sender, or other disposition, of matter 
mailed without prepayment of the posage required by law. 
§ 4110. Charges for unpaid and part paid mail 
The Postmaster General shall prescribe from time to time the 
charges to be collected for matter mailed without prepayment of 
required postage. The charges— 
(1) shall be in addition to the payment of lawfully required 
postage, 
(2) may not be adjusted more frequently than once every two 
years, and 
(3) when adjusted, shall equal, as nearly as practicable, the 
approximate cost incurred by the Department with respect to the 
delivery of such matter and the collection of postage and other 
charges thereon. 
The Postmaster General may waive the collection of any charges 
when he deems a waiver to be in the interest of the Government. 
CHAPTER 57—PENALTY AND FRANKED MAIL 
Sec. 
4151. Definitions. 
4152. Penalty mail. 
4153. Endorsements on penalty covers. 
4154. Restrictions on use of penalty mail. 
4155. Accounting for penalty covers. 
4156. Reimbursement for penalty mail service. 
4157. Report to Congress by Postmaster General. 
4158. Limit of weight of penalty mail; postage on overweight matter. 
4159. Shipment by most economical means. 
4160. Executive departments to supply information. 
4161. Official corresiwndence of Vice President and Members of Congress. 
4162. Public documents. 
4163. Congressional Record under frank of Members of Congress. 
4164. Seeds and reports from Department of Agriculture. 
4165. Mailing privilege of former Presidents. 
4166. Lending or permitting use of frank unlawful. 
4167. Reimbursement for franked mailings. 
4168. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries 
of Postal Union of Americas and Spain. 
28 Stat. 606. 
48 Stat. 113. 
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§ 4151. 
Definitions 
As used in this chapter— 
"Penalty mail" means official mail, other than franked mail, which 
is authorized by law to be transmitted in the mail without prepay-
ment of postage. 
"Penalty cover" means envelopes, wrappers, labels, or cards 
used to transmit penalty mail. 
"Frank" means the autographic or facsimile signature of persons 
authorized by sections 4161-4167 of this title to transmit matter 
through the mail without prepayment of postage or other indicia 
contemplated by sections 162 and 185 of title 44. 
"Franked mail" means mail which is transmitted in the mail 
under a frank. 
"Members of Congress" includes Senators, Kepresentatives, Dele-
gates and Resident Commissioners. 
§ 4152. Penalty mail 
(a) Subject to the limitations imposed by sections 4154 and 4158 
of this title, there may be transmitted as penalty mail— 
(1) official mail of— 
(A) officers of the United States Government other than 
Members of Congress; 
(B) the Smithsonian Institution; 
(C) the Pan American Union; 
(D) the Pan American Sanitary Bureau; 
(E) the United States Employment Service and the sys-
tem of employment offices operated by it in conformity with 
the provisions of sections 49-49c, 49d, 49e-49k of title 29, 
and all State employment systems which receive funds appro-
priated under authority of those sections; and 
(F) any college officer or other person connected with 
the extension department of the college as the Secretary of 
Agriculture may designate to the Postmaster General to the 
extent that the official mail consists of correspondence, bulle-
tins, and reports for the furtherance of the purposes of 
«^ Stat. 83. 
sections 341-343,344-348 of title 7; 
(2) mail relating to naturalization to be sent to the Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Service by clerks of courts addressed 
to the Department of Justice or the Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service, or any official thereof; 
(3) mail relating to a collection of statistics, survey or census 
authorized by title 13 and addressed to the Department of Com-
merce or a bureau or agency thereof; and 
(4) mail of State Agriculture Experiment Stations pursuant 
staf IM' "
* '^' ^^ 
*^ sections 325 and 361f of title 7. 
(5) articles for copyright deposited with postmasters and 
addressed to the Register of Copyrights pursuant to section 15 of 
61 Stat. 657. 
title 17. 
(b) A department or officer authorized to use penalty covers may 
enclose them with return address to any person from or through whom 
official information is desired. The penalty cover may be used only 
to transmit the official information and endorsements relating thereto. 
(c) This section does not apply to officers who receive a fixed allow-
ance as compensation for their services, including expenses of postage. 
§ 4153. Endorsements on penalty covers 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, penalty covers 
shall bear, over the words "Official Business" an endorsement showing 
the name of the department, bureau or office from which, or officer 
from whom, it is transmitted. 
The penalty for the unlawful use of 
all penalty covers shall be printed thereon. 
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(b) The Postmaster General shall prescribe the endorsement to 
be placed on covers mailed under paragraphs (1) (E), (2), and (3) 
of section 4152 (a) of this title. 
§ 4154. Restrictions on use of penalty mail 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an oiiicer, execu-
tive department or independent establishment of the Government of 
the United States may not mail, as penalty mail, any article or docu-
ment unless— 
(1) a request therefor has been previously received by the 
department or establishment; or 
(2) its mailing is required by law. 
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the mailing, as penalty mail, 
by an officer, executive department or independent agency of— 
(1) enclosures reasonably related to the sub 
j ect matter of official 
correspondence; 
(2) informational releases relating to the census of the United 
States and authorized by title 13; 
(3) matter concerning the sale of Government securities; 
(4) forms, blanks, and copies of statutes, rules, regulations, in-
structions, administrative orders, and interpretations necessary 
in the administration of the department or establishment; 
^5) agricultural bulletins; 
(6) lists of public documents offered for sale by the Superin-
tendent of Documents; 
(7) announcements of the publication of maps, atlases, and 
statistical and other reports offered for sale by the Federal Power 
Commission as authorized by section 825k of title 16; or 
(8) articles or documents to educational institutions or public 
libraries, or to Federal, State, or other public authorities. 
§ 4155. Accounting for penalty covers 
Executive departments and agencies, independent establishments 
of the Government, and organizations and persons authorized by law 
to use penalty mail, shall account for all penalty covers through the 
Postmaster General as he prescribes. 
§ 4156. Reimbursement for penalty mail service 
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, 
executive departments and agencies, independent establishments of 
the Government, and Government corporations concerned shall trans-
fer to the Post Office Department as postal revenue out of any appro-
priations or funds available to them, as a necessary expense of the 
appropriations or funds and of the activities concerned, the equivalent 
amount of postage due, as determined by the Postmaster General, for 
matter sent in the mails by or to them as penalty mail under author-
ity of section 4152 of this title. 
(b) The Department of Agriculture shall transfer to the Post Of-
fice Department as postal revenues out of any appropriation made 
to it for that purpose the equivalent amount of postage, as deter-
mined bv the Postmaster General, for penalty mailings under para-
graphs (1) (F) and (4) of subsection (a) of section 4152 of this title. 
(c) The Library of Congress shall transfer to the Post Office De-
partment as postal revenues out of any appropriations made to it for 
that purpose the equivalent amount of postage, as determined by the 
Postmaster General, for penalty mailings under paragraph (5) of 
subsection (a) of section 4152 of this title. 
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§ 4157. Report to Congress by Postmaster General 
The Postmaster General shall report to the Congress and to the 
Bureau of the Budget within ninety days after the close of each fiscal 
year the number of penalty covers accounted for through him 
during the fiscal jear by each executive department and agency, 
independent establishment, and organization or person authorized to 
use penalty mail. 
§ 4158. Limit of weight of penalty mail; postage on overweight 
matter 
(a) Penalty mail is restricted to articles not in excess of the weight 
and size prescribed for first class mail, except— 
(1) stamped paper and supplies sold or used by the postal serv-
ice; and 
(2) books and documents published or circulated bv order of 
Congress when mailed by the Superintendent of Public Docu-
ments. 
(b) A penalty mail article which is— 
(1) over four pounds in weight, 
(2) not in excess of the weight and size prescribed for fourth 
class matter, and 
(3) otherwise mailable, 
is mailable at fourth class rates even though it may include written 
matter and may be sealed. The postage on such an article is payable 
in the manner prescribed by the Postmaster General. 
§ 4159. Shipment by most economical means 
Shipments of official matter other than franked mail shall be sent 
by the most economical means of transportation practicable. 
The 
Postmaster General may refuse to accept official matter for ship-
ment by mail when in his judgment it may be shipped by other means 
at less expense, or he may provide for its transportation by freight or 
express, whenever a saving to the Government will result therefrom 
without detriment to the public service. 
§ 4160. Executive Departments to supply information 
Persons and governmental organizations authorized to use penalty 
mail shall supply all information requested by the Postmaster General 
necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 4151—4168 of this 
title as soon as practicable after request therefor. 
§ 4161. Official correspondence of Vice President and Members 
of Congress 
The Vice President, Members and Members-elect of Congress, the 
Secretary of the Senate, and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate until 
the thirtieth day of June following the expiration of their respective 
terms of office, may send as franked mail— 
(1) matter, not exceeding four pounds in weight, upon official 
or departmental business, to a Government official; and 
(2) correspondence, not exceeding four ounces in weight, upon 
official business to any person. 
In the event of a vacancy m the office of Secretary of the Senate or 
Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, any authorized person may exercise 
this privilege in the officer's name during the period of the vacancy. 
§ 4162. Public documents 
The Vice President, Members of Congress, the Secretary of the 
Senate, Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives, until the thirtieth day of June following the ex-
piration of their respective terms of office, may send and receive 
as franked mail all public documents printed by order of Congress. 
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§ 4163. Congressional Record under frank of Members of Con-
gress 
Members of Congress may send as franked mail the Congressional 
Record, or any part thereof, or speeches or reports therein contained. 
§ 4164. Seeds and reports from Department of Agriculture 
Seeds and agricultural reports emanating from the Department of 
Agriculture may be mailed— 
(1) as penalty mail by the Secretary of Agriculture; and 
(2) until the 30th day of June following the expiration of their 
terms of office as franked mail by Members of Congress. 
§ 4165. Mailing privilege of former Presidents 
A former President may send all his mail within the United 
States and its Territories and possessions as franked mail. 
§ 4166. Lending or permitting use of frank unlawful 
A person entitled to use a frank may not lend it or permit its use by 
any committee, organization, or association, or permit its use by any 
person for the benefit or use of any committee, organization, or associ-
ation. 
This section does not apply to any committee composed of 
Members of Congress. 
§ 4167. Reimbursement for franked mailings 
(a) The postage on mail matter sent and received through the mails 
under the franking privilege by the Vice President, Members, and 
Members-elect of Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at 
Arms of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 
including registry fees if registration is required, shall be paid by a 
lump-sum appropriation to the legislative branch for that purpose, 
and credited to the Department as postal revenue. 
(b) The postage on mail matter sent through the mails under the 
franking privilege by former Presidents shall be paid by reimburse-
ment of the postal revenues each fiscal year out of the general funds 
of the Treasury in an amount equivalent to the postage which would 
otherwise be payable on the mail matter. 
§ 4168. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and 
consuls of countries of Postal Union of Americas and 
Spain 
Correspondence of the members of the diplomatic corps of the 
countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain stationed 
in the United States may be reciprocally transmitted in the domestic 
mails free of postage, and be entitled to free registration without right 
to indemnity in case of loss. The same privilege is accorded consuls 
and vice consuls when they are discharging the function of consuls 
of countries stationed in the United States, for official corre-
spondence among themselves, and with the Government of the United 
States. 
CHAPTER 59—FIRST CLASS MAIL 
Sec. 
4251. Definition. 
4252. Weight limit. 
4253. Postage rates on first class mail. 
4254. Business reply mail. 
§ 4251. Definition 
(a) First class mail consists of mailable (1) postal cards, (2) 
post cards, (3) matter wholly or partially in writing or typewriting, 
except as provided in sections 4366, 4453, and 4555 of this title, and 
(4) matter closed against postal inspection. 
(b) A postal card is a card supplied by the Department with a 
postage stamp pointed or impressed on it for the transmission of mes-
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sages, orders, notices and other communications, either printed or 
written in pencil or ink. 
(c) Post cards are privately printed mailing cards for the trans-
mission of messages. They may not be larger than the size fixed by 
the Convention of the Universal Postal Union in effect and of approxi-
mately the same form, quality and weight as postal cards. 
(d) Drop letters are letters— 
(1) mailed for local delivery at post offices where letter carrier 
service is not established; and 
(2) neither collected nor delivered by rural or star route 
carriers. 
§ 4252. Weight limit 
The maximum weight of first class mail is the same as the maximum 
limit applicable to fourth class mail. 
§ 4253. Postage rates on first class mail 
(a) Postage on first class mail is computed separately on each letter 
or piece of mail. The rate of postage on first class mail is four cents 
for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, except that the rate— 
(1) on drop letters is three cents for each ounce or fraction of 
an ounce; 
(2) for each single postal card and each portion of a double 
postal card, including the cost of manufacture, is three cents; 
(3) for each post card and the initial portion of each double 
post card conforming to section 4251 (c) of this title is three cents. 
(b) The rate of postage on business reply mail is the regular rate 
prescribed in subsection (a) of this section together with an additional 
charge thereon of two cents for each piece weighing two ounces or less 
and five cents for each piece weighing more than two ounces. 
The 
postage and charge shall be collected on delivery. 
§ 4254. Business reply mail 
The Postmaster may accept for transmission in the mails, without 
prepayment of postage, business reply cards, letters, and business reply 
envelopes, and any other matter under business reply labels. 
CHAPTER 61—AIR MAIL AND AIR PARCEL POST 
Sec. 
4301. Definitions. 
4302. Treatment of air mail. 
4303. Postage rates on air mail. 
4304. Postage on Alaskan air mail. 
4300. Size and weiglit limits. 
§ 4301. 
Definitions 
As used in this chapter— 
(1) "domestic air mail" means matter bearing postage at the rates 
of postage prescribed in sections 4303 and 4304 of this title which is 
mailed in the United States Postal Service for transportation by air 
and delivery by the United States Postal Service. 
(2) "air parcel post" means domestic air mail of any class weighing 
in excess of eight ounces. 
§ 4302. Treatment of air mail 
(a) Except with respect to the postage required, domestic air mail, 
other than air parcel post, shall be treated as first class mail. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall prescribe the conditions under 
which air parcel post shall be— 
(1) forwarded or returned to the sender; 
(2) charged with forwarding or return postage; and 
(3) registered, insured, or given C. O. D. service. 
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§ 4303. Postage rates on air mail 
(a) Except as provided in section 4304 of this title and sub-
section (b) of this section the rate of postage on domestic air mail 
weighing not more than eight omices is seven cents for each ounce or 
fraction thereof. 
(b) The rate of postage on each postal card and post card sent as 
domestic air mail is five cents. 
(c) The rate of postage on letters in business reply envelopes and 
on business reply cards sent as domestic air mail is the regular rate 
prescribed in subsection (a) or (b) together with an additional charge 
thereon of two cents for each piece weighing two ounces or less and 
five cents for each piece weighing more than two ounces. The postage 
and charge shall be collected on delivery. 
(d) (1) The rates of postage on air parcel post are based on the 
eight zones established for fourth class mail in accordance with the 
following table: 
Zones 
1, ?, nnrl 3 
4 
-
5 
-
6 
- 
, 
-
7 
8 
-
First pound 
over 8 ounces 
or fraction 
thereof 
Cents 
60 
65 
70 
75 
75 
80 
Additional 
pounds or 
fraction 
thereof 
Centt 
48 
60 
66 
64 
72 
80 
(2) The rate of postage on airmail of the first class weighing in 
excess of eight ounces shall be the rate provided for air parcels, but in 
no case shall be less than 3 cents an ounce or fraction thereof. 
(3) In addition to parcels to which it is otherwise applicable, the 
eighth zone includes, for purposes of this section only, parcels trans-
ported as follows: 
(A) between the United States, its Territories and possessions 
or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone. 
(B) between the United States, its Territories and possessions 
or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Army and Air Forces 
post offices and naval vessels and commands, when the address 
is in care of Fleet Post Offices, New York, New York, or San 
Francisco, California. 
(e) Air parcel post of light weight in relation to size is subject to 
such surcharge as the Postmaster General determines to be war-
ranted by reason of the extra space and care required in handling and 
transporting it. 
§ 4304. Postage on Alaskan air mail 
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4303 of this title, the 
Postmaster General may fix the postage at rates not exceeding 30 cents 
per ounce or 15 cents per one-half ounce for airmail sent to, from, or 
within Alaska. 
§ 4305. Size and weight limits 
The maximum size and weight of domestic airmail and air parcel 
post is 100 inches in length and girth combined and 70 pounds. 
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CHAPTER 63—SECOND CLASS MAIL AND CONTROLLED 
CIRCULATION PUBLICATIONS 
SECOND CLASS MAIL 
Sec. 
4351. Deflnitlan. 
43.52. Entry as second class mail. 
43f>3. Entry of foreign publications. 
4354. Conditions for entry of publications. 
4355. Conditions for entry of publications of certain organizations. 
4356. Conditions for entry of publications of State departments of agriculture. 
4357. Fees for entry and registration. 
4358. Postage rates within county of publication. 
4359. Postage rates beyond county of publication. 
4360. Minimum postage. 
4361. Rates for proofs of advertisements. 
4362. Transient postage rate. 
436.'). Separation by mailer of second class mail. 
4364. Information to be furnished by mailer. 
4365. Permissible marks and enclosures. 
4366. Permissible supplements. 
4367. Marking of advertising matter. 
4368. Affidavits relating to mailings; second class mail. 
4369. Affidavits relating to publications of the second class. 
4370. Delivery of newspapers by postal transportation service. 
CONTROLLED CIRCULATION PUBLICATIONS 
4421. 
Definition. 
4422. Rates. 
§ 4351. Definition 
Second class mail embraces newspapers and other periodical publica-
tions when entered and mailed in accordance with sections 4352-4357 
of fhis title. 
§ 4352. Entry as second class mail 
(a) Upon application in the form prescribed by him the Postmaster 
General siinll enter as second class mail, at the Post Office where the 
office of publication is maintained, any publication which is entitled 
under sections 4353-4357 of this title to be classified as second class 
mail. A publication entered at one post office may also upon appli-
cal ion be entered by him at another post office. 
(b) The Postmaster General may revoke the entry of a publication 
as second class mail whenever he finds, after a hearing, that the pub-
lication is no longer entitled to be entered as second class mail. 
(c) The Postmaster General may not accept for mailing as second 
class mail any publication having more than 75 per centum advertising 
in more than one-half of its issues during any twelve-month period 
and he shall revoke its entry. A charge made solely for the publica-
tion of transportation schedules, fares, and related information is 
not considered as advertising under this subsection. 
§ 4353. Entry of foreign publications 
Foreign newspapers and other periodicals of the same general char-
jic'tci- M
S domestic publications entered as second class mail may be 
accepted by the Postmaster General, on application of the publishers 
theieof or their agents, for transmission through the mail at the same 
rates as if published in the United States. 
This section does not 
authorize the transmission through the mail of a publication which 
violates a copyright granted by the United States. 
§ 4354. Conditions for entry of publications 
(a) Generally a mailable periodical publication is entitled to be 
entered and mailed as second class mail if it— 
(1) is regularly issued at stated intervals as frequently as four 
times a year and bears a date of issue and is numoered consecu-
tively; 
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(2) is issued from a known office of publication; 
(3 
^ is formed of printed sheets; 
(4) is originated and published for the dissemination of in-
formation of a public character, or devoted to literature, the 
sciences, arts, or a special industry; and 
(5) has a legitimate list of subscribers. 
(b) For the purpose of this section, the word "printed" does not 
include reproduction by the stencil, mimeograph or hectograph proc-
esses or reproduction in imitation of typewriting. 
(c) A periodical publication designed primarily for advertising 
purposes or for free circulation or for circulation at nominal rates is 
not entitled to be admitted as second class mail under this section. 
§ 4355. Conditions for entry of publications of certain organiza-
tions 
(a) Mailable periodical publications meeting the first three con-
ditions of section 4354(a) of this title are entitled to be entered and 
mailed as second class mail when they do not contain advertising other 
than that of the publisher and if they are— 
(1) published by a regularly incorporated institution of learn-
ing; or 
(2) published by a regularly established State institution of 
learning supported in whole or in part by public taxation; or 
(3) a bulletin issued by a State board of health; or 
(4) a bulletin issued by a State conservation or fish and game 
agency or department; or 
(5) a bulletin issued by a State board or department of public 
charities and corrections; or 
(6) published by or under the auspices of a benevolent or fra-
ternal society or order organized under the lodge system and 
having a bona fide membership of not less than 1,000 persons; or 
(7) published by or under the auspices of a trades union; or 
(8) published by a strictly professional, literary, historical, 
or scientific society; or 
(9) published by a church or church organization. 
(b) A publication containing advertising of persons other than 
the publisher but otherwise qualifying under items (6) through (9) 
of subsection (a) of this section is entitled to be entered and mailed 
as second class mail if— 
(1) the publication is not designed or published primarily for 
advertising purposes; 
(2) the publication is originated and published to further the 
objects and purposes of the publisher; 
(3) the circulation is limited to copies sent to members who pay 
either as a part of their dues or assessments, or otherwise, not less 
than 50 per centum of the regular subscription price; to other 
actual subscribers; to exchanges; and 10 per centum of the cir-
culation as sample copies. 
Individual subscriptions or receipts are not required when members 
pay for publications, to which this subsection applies, as a part of 
their dues or assessments. 
§ 4356. Conditions for entry of publications of State departments 
of agriculture 
A mailable periodical publication issued by a State department of 
agriculture may be entered and mailed as second class mail if it— 
(1) is issued from a known place of publication; 
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(2) is issued at stated intervals as frequently as four times a 
year; 
(3) is published only for the purpose of furthering the objects 
of the departments; and 
(4) does not contain advertising matter. 
§ 4357. Fees for entry and registration 
(a) The fees for entry as second class mail are as follows— 
(1) for a publication having a circulation of not more than 
2,000 copies, $25; 
(2) for a publication having a circulation of more than 2,000 
copies but not more than 5,000 copies, $50; 
(3) for a publication having a circulation of more than 5,000 
copies, $100. 
(b) The fee for re-entry of a publication as second class mail 
on account of change in title, frequency of issue, office of publication 
or for other reasons is $10. The fee for each additional entry is $10. 
^c) The fee for registry of a news agent is $20. 
(d) The applicant shall pay the fees fixed by this section at the 
time of application. 
The Postmaster General shall return one-half 
of any fee paid under subsection (a) of this section to the applicant 
if he denies the application. 
§ 4358. 
Postage rates within county of publication 
(a) One copy each of a publication admitted as second class mail 
may be mailed free to each actual subscriber if the subscriber— 
(1) resides in the county in which the publication is printed in 
whole or in part and in which it is published; and 
(2) receives his mail at an office at which letter carrier service 
is not established. 
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section and sub-
ject to the minimum rates provided by section 4360 of this title, the 
rate of postage on publications admitted as second class mail when 
addressed for delivery within the county in which they are published 
and entered is as follows— 
(1) if mailed for delivery by letter carrier at the office of 
mailing: 
(A) publications issued more frequently than weekly, one 
cent a copy; 
(B) publications issued weekly, one cent a pound; 
(C) publications issued less frequently than weekly— 
(i) weighing two ounces or less, one cent a copy, 
(ii) weighing more than two ounces, two cents a copy; 
(2) if mailed for delivery at the office of mailing through post 
office boxes, general delivery or by rural or star route carrier, 
one cent a pound; 
(3) if mailed for delivery at an office other than the office of 
mailing, one cent a pound. 
(c) AVhen copies of a publication are mailed at a post office where 
it is entered for delivery by letter carrier at a different post office within 
the delivery limits of which the headquarters or general business office 
of the publisher is located the rate of postage is— 
(1) the rate that would be applicable if the copies were mailed 
at the latter post office, or 
(2) the pound rates from the office of mailing if those rates are 
higher. 
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§ 4359. Postage rates beyond county of publication 
(a) Except as provided in sections 4358, 4361, and 4362 of this title, 
the rates of postage set out in this section are applicable to copies of 
publications entered as second class mail when (1) mailed by the 
publisher thereof from the post office of publication and entry or 
other post office where entry is authorized and (2) when mailed by 
news agents, registered as such under regulations prescribed by the 
Postmaster General, to actual subscribers thereto or to other news 
agents for the purpose of sale and (3) sample copies to the extent of 
10 per centum of the weight of copies mailed to subscribers during the 
calendar year. 
(b) Subject to the minimum rates provided by section 4360 of this 
title, the rates of postage on publications mailed in accordance with 
subsection (a) of this section are fixed by the pound as follows: 
Advertising portion: 
Zones 1 and 2 
Zones 
Zone 5 
Zone 6 
Zone 7 
Zones 
-
Nonadvertising portion 
A publication of a qualified nonprofit organization 
Classroom 
publica-
tions 
1.5 
2.0 
3.0 
4.0 
6.0 
6.0 
7.0 
1.5 
other publications 
Mailed 
during 
calendar 
year 1959 
2.2 
3.0 
4.5 
6.0 
7.7 
9.2 
11.0 
2.1 
1.6 
Mailed 
during 
calendar 
year 1960 
2.6 
3.5 
6.2 
7.0 
8.7 
11.0 
12.5 
2.3 
1.6 
MaUed 
after 
Dec. 31, 
1960 
3.0 
4.0 
6.0 
8.0 
10.0 
12.0 
14.0 
2.6 
1.6 
(c) For the purpose of this section, the portion of a publication 
devoted to advertisements shall include all advertisements inserted in 
the publication and attached permanently thereto. 
(d) The publisher of a classroom publication or of a publication of 
a nonprofit organization before being entitled to the rates for the 
publications shall furnish such proof of qualifications as the Post-
master General prescribes. 
(e) As used in this section the term— 
(1) "classroom publication" means a religious, educational or 
scientific publication entered as second class mail and designed 
specifically for use in classrooms or in religious instruction 
classes; 
(2) "a publication of a qualified nonprofit 
organization" 
means a publication published by and in the interest of one 
of the following types of organizations or associations if it 
is not organized for profit and none of its net income inures 
to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual: Eeligious, 
educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, vet-
erans', and fraternal; and 
(3) "zones" means the eight zones established for fourth class 
mail. 
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§ 4360. Minimum postage 
The following are the minimum rates for each individually ad-
dressed copy of second class mail: 
SECOND CLASS MINIMUM RATES 
[In cents] 
Mailed dur-
ing calendar 
year 1959 
Mailed dur-
ing calendar 
year 1960 
Mailed after 
Dec. 31,1960 
For delivery within county of publication except when mailed 
free under sec. 4358(a) of this title.-. 
--. 
For delivery beyond county of publication: 
Classroom and nonprofit organization publication 
other publications..-
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§ 4361. Rates for proofs of advertisements 
The publisher may mail single sheets or portions thereof from any 
publication entered as second class mail, to an advertiser or his agent 
as proof of the insertion of an advertisement, at the zone rates of post-
age applicable to the advertising portions of second class mail under 
section 485U of this title. 
§ 4362. Transient postage rate 
The rate of postage on copies of publications having second class 
entry mailed— 
(1) by persons other than the publishers or registered news 
agents; 
(2) as sample copies by the publishers in excess of the 10 per 
centum permitted to be mailed at the pound rates; and 
(3) copies mailed by the publishers to persons who may not be 
included in the required legitimate list of subscribers; 
is two cents for the first two ounces and one cent for each additional 
ounce or fraction thereof. When postage at the rates prescribed 
for fourth class mail is lower, the latter applies. 
The rates are 
computed on each individually addressed copy or package of unad-
dressed copies. 
§ 4363. Separation by mailer of second class mail 
The Postmaster General may require publishers and news agents to 
separate and make up to zones, in such manner as he directs, second 
class mail offered for mailing. 
§ 4364. Information to be furnished by mailer 
With the first mailing of each issue of a publication mailed as 
second class mail, the publisher shall file a copy of the issue together 
with a statement containing such information as the Postmaster Gen-
eral prescribes for determining the postage to be paid. 
§ 4365. Permissible marks and enclosures 
(a) Second class mail may contain no writing, print, or sign 
thereon or therein, in addition to the original print except— 
(1) the name and address of tlie person to whom the mail is 
sent and directions for transmission, delivery, forwarding or 
return; 
(2) index figures of subscription book either printed or written; 
(3) the printed title of the publication and the place of its 
publication; 
(4) the printed or written name and address without addition 
of advertisement of the publisher or sender, or both; 
(5) written or printed words or figures, or both, indicating the 
date on which the subscription to the matter will end; 
( 6) the correction of typographical errors; 
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(7) a mark except written or printed words to designate a word 
or passage to which it is desired to call attention; 
(8) the words "sample copy" when the matter is sent as such; 
and 
(9) the words "marked copy" when the matter contains a 
marked item or article. 
(b) Publishers and news agents may enclose in their publications 
bills, receipts and orders for subscriptions. 
(c) This section does not prohibit the insertion in periodicals of 
advertisements permanently attached thereto. 
§ 4366. Permissible supplements 
Publishers may fold a supplement within the regular issue of a 
publication entered as second class mail if the supplement is— 
(1) germane to the publication; 
(2) needed to supply matter omitted from the regular issue 
for want of space, time or greater convenience; and 
(3) issued with the regiuar issue. 
§ 4367. Marking of advertising matter 
Editorial or other reading matter contained in publications entered 
as second class mail and for the publication of which a valuable 
consideration is paid, accepted or promised, shall be marked plainly 
"advertisement" by the publisher. 
§ 4368. Affidavits relating to mailings; second class mail 
The Postmaster General may require when he deems it necessary— 
(1) a publisher of a second class publication; or 
(2) a news agent who distributed the publication; or 
(3) an employee of the publisher or news agent 
to make an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Postmaster General, 
stating that he will not send or knowingly permit to be sent through 
the mails a copy of the publication without prepayment of postage 
thereon at the rate prescribed by law. 
§ 4369. Affidavits relating to publications of the second class 
(a) The editor, publisher, business manager or owner of a pub-
lication entered as second class mail shall file with the Postmaster 
General and publish in the second issue thereafter of the publication 
to which it relates a sworn statement on forms furnished by the Post-
master General on or before the first day of October of each year 
setting forth— 
(1) the names and post office addresses of the editor and man-
aging editor, publisher, business managers and owners; 
(2) the name of the corporation and the stockholders thereof 
if the publication is owned by a corporation; 
(3) the names of known bond holders, mortgagees or other 
security holders; and 
(4) in the case of daily, semi-weekly, tri-weekly and weekly 
publications, the average number of copies of each issue of the 
publication sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise 
distributed to paid subscribers during the preceding 12 months. 
The sworn statement need not include the names of persons owning 
less than one per centum of the total amount of stock, bonds, mortgages 
or other securities. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall deny the privilege of the mail 
to a publication which fails to comply with the provisions of this sec-
tion within ten days after notice by registered mail of the failure. 
(c) This section is not applicable to religious, fraternal, temper-
ance, scientific, or similar publications. 
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§ 4370. Delivery of newspapers by the Postal Transportation 
Service 
The Postmaster General may provide by order the terms upon which 
the Department will receive directly from publishers or news agents 
in charge thereof, packages of newspapers and other periodicals not 
received from or intended for delivery at any post office and deliver 
them as directed, if presented and called for at the mail car or steamer. 
CONTROLLED CIRCULATION PUBLICATIONS 
§ 4421. Definition 
Controlled circulation publications are those publications which— 
(1) contain twenty-four pages or more; 
(2) are issued at regular intervals of four or more times a year; 
(3) devote 25 per centum or more of their pages to text or 
reading matter and not more than 75 per centum to advertising 
matter; 
(4) may be circulated free or mainly free; and 
(5) are not owned and controlled by one or several individ-
uals or business concerns and conducted as an auxiliary to and 
essentially for the advancement of the main business or calling of 
those who own or control them. 
§ 4422. Rates of postage 
The postage rate on controlled circulation publications found by 
the Postmaster General to meet the definition contained in section 4421 
of this title when mailed in the manner prescribed by the Postmaster 
General, is 12 cents a pound or fraction thereof, regardless of the 
weight of the individual copies, with a minimum charge of 1 cent for 
each piece. The rates provided in this section shall remain in effect 
until otherwise provided by the Congress. 
CHAPTER 65—THIRD CLASS MAIL 
Sec. 
4451. Definition. 
4452. Postage rates. 
4453. Permissible marks and enclosures. 
§ 4451. Definition 
(a) Third class mail consists of mailable matter which is— 
(1) not mailed or required to be mailed as first class mail; 
(2) not entered as second class mail; and 
(3) less than sixteen ounces in weight. 
(b) A person who presents for mailing at one time twenty or more 
identical copies of bills and statements of account produced by any 
photographic or mechanical process, other than typewriting, may 
mail them as third class mail. 
In other cases, bills and statemente 
of account shall be mailed as first class mail. 
(c) Circulars, including printed letters which according to internal 
evidence are being sent in identical terms to several persons, are third 
class mail. 
A circular does not lose its character as such when 
the date and name of the addressee and of the sender are written 
therein, nor by the correction in writing of mere typographical errors. 
(d) Unsealed letters written in point print or raised characters, or 
on sound reproduction records, used by the blind are third class mail 
without regard to the limit on weight prescribed in subsection (a) (2) 
of this section. 
(e) Printed matter within the limit of weight set forth in subsec-
tion (a) of this section is third class mail. 
For the purpose of this 
subsection, printed matter is paper on which words, letters, characters, 
figures or images, or any combination thereof, not having the charac-
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ter of actual and personal correspondence, have been reproduced by 
any process other than handwriting or typewriting. 
§ 4452. Postage rates 
(a) Subject to the minimum charge per piece provided in subsec-
tions (b) and (c) of this section, the postage rates on third class mail 
are as follows: 
Type of mailing 
Rate 
Unit 
(1) Individual piece 
(2) Bulk mailings under subsec. (e) of this section 
o
f
— 
(A) Books and catalogs of 24 pages or more, 
seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and 
plants. 
(B) Other matter 
Cents 
{ m 
First 2 ounces or fraction thereof. 
Each additional ounce or fraction thereof. 
Each pound or fraction thereof. 
Do. 
(b) Matter mailed in bulk under subsection (e) of this section is 
subject to the following minimum charge for each piece unless a higher 
minimum rate is applicable under subsection (c) of this section: 
[In cents] 
Mailed b y -
Through 
June 30, 1960 
2 
After June 
30,1960 
2H 
(0 
' One-half the minimum charge applicable to other than nonprofit organizations. 
(c) The minimum postage rate on pieces or packages of third class 
mail of such size or form as to prevent ready facing and tying in 
bundles and requiring individual distribution is six cents. 
(d) The term "qualified nonprofit organization" as used in subsec-
tions (a) and (b) of this section means religious, educational, scientific, 
philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans, or fraternal organizations 
or associations not organized for profit and none of the net income of 
which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual. 
Before being entitled to the preferential rates set out in subsections 
(a) and (b) of this section, the organization or association shall 
furnish proof of its qualifications to the Postmaster General. 
(e) Upon payment of a fee of $20 for each calendar year or por-
tion thereof, any person may mail in the manner directed by the 
Postmaster General, separately addressed, identical pieces of third 
class mail in quantities of not less than twenty pounds or of not less 
than two hundred pieces subject to pound rates of postage applicable 
to the entire bulk mailed at one time. 
§ 4453. Permissible marks and enclosures 
Only marks and enclosures permissible in the case of fourth class 
mail, pursuant to section 4555 of this title, may be placed on or enclosed 
in third class mail. 
CHAPTER 67—FOURTH 
CLASS 
MAIL 
Sec. 
4551. Definition. 
4552. Size and weight limitations. 
4553. Postal zones. 
4554. Postage rates on books and films. 
4555. Permissible marks and enclosures. 
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§ 4551. Definition 
Fourth class mail consists of mailable matter— 
(1) not mailed or required to be mailed as first class mail; 
(2) within the size and weight limits prescribed for fourth class 
mail; and 
(3) not entered as second class mail. 
§ 4552. Size and weight limitations 
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section— 
(1) the maximum size of fourth class mail is seventy-two 
inches in girth and length combined, and 
(2) the minimum weight is sixteen ounces and the maximum 
forty pounds in the first and second zones and twenty pounds in 
any other zone. 
(b) The maximum size of fourth class mail is one hundred inches 
in girth and length combined and the minimum weight is sixteen 
ounces and the maximum seventy pounds for parcels— 
(1) mailed at, or addressed for delivery at, a second, third, 
or fourth class post office or on a rural or star route; 
(2) containing baby fowl, liveplants, trees, shrubs or agri-
cultural commodities but not the manufactured products of those 
commodities; 
(3) consisting of books permanently bound for preservation 
consisting wholly of reading matter or reading matter with inci-
dental blank spaces for students' notations and containing no 
advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; 
(4) addressed to or mailed at an Army, Air Force, or Fleet 
post office; 
(5) addressed to or mailed in the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Eico, the Territory of Hawaii or a possession of the United 
States including the Canal Zone and the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands; and 
(6) consisting of reproducers for sound reproduction records 
for the blind or parts thereof, and of Braille writers and other 
appliances for the blind or parts thereof, mailed under section 
4654 of this title. 
§ 4553. Postal zones 
(a) For the purposes of fourth class mail the United States, its 
possessions, the Territory of Hawaii and the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Kico are divided into units of area thirty minutes square, 
identical with a quarter of the area formed by the intersecting par-
allels of latitude and meridians of longitude, represented on postal 
maps or plans. 
( D) The units of area are the basis of eight postal zones, as follows: 
(1) the first zone includes all territory within the quadrangle 
in conjunction with every contiguous quadrangle, representing 
an area having a mean radial distance of approximately fifty 
miles from the center of a given unit of area. 
(2) the second zone includes all units of area outside the first 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
one hundred and fifty miles from the center of a given unit of area. 
(3) the third zone includes all units of area outside the second 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
three hundred miles from the center of a given unit of area. 
(4) the fourth zone includes all units of area outside the third 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
six hundred miles from the center of a given unit of area. 
(5) the fifth zone includes all units of area outside the fourth 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
one thousand miles from the center of a given unit of area. 
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(6) the sixth zone includes all units of area outside the fifth 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
one thousand four hundred miles from the center of a given unit 
of area. 
(7) the seventh zone includes all units of area outside the sixth 
zone lying in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 
one thousand eight hundred miles from the center of a given unit 
of area. 
(8) the eighth zone includes all units of area outside the seventh 
zone. 
§ 4554. Postage rates on books, films, and similar educational 
materials 
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the postage 
rate is 9 cents a pound for the first pound or fraction thereof and 
5 cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof on— 
(1) books permanently bound for preservation, consisting 
wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading 
matter with incidental blank spaces for students' notations and 
containing no advertising matter other than incidental announce-
ment of books; 
(2) 16-millimeter films and 16-millimeter film catalogs except 
when sent to commercial theaters; 
(3^ printed music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; 
(4) printed objective test materials and accessories thereto 
used by or in behalf of educational institutions in the testing of 
ability, aptitude, achievement, interests, and other mental and 
personal qualities with or without answer, test scores, or identify-
ing information recorded thereon in writing, or by mark; 
(5) phonograph recordings; and 
(6) 
• 
manuscripts for books, periodicals and music, 
(b) (i) Matter designated in paragraph (2) of this subsection may 
be mailed at the regular third or fourth class postage rates, or at the 
rate of 4 cents for the first pound or fraction thereof and 1 cent for 
each additional pound or fraction thereof when loaned or exchanged 
between— 
(A) schools, colleges or universities; 
(B) public libraries, religious, educational, scientific, philan-
thropic, agricultural, labor, veterans', or fraternal organizations 
or associations, not organized for profit and none of the net in-
come of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or 
individual, or between such organizations and their members, 
readers or borrowers. 
(2) The materials mailable under the rates prescribed in paragraph 
(1) of this subsection are— 
(A) books consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly 
bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for 
students' notations and containing no advertising matter other 
than incidental announcements of oooks; 
(B) printed music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; 
(C) bound volumes of academic theses in typewritten or other 
duplicated form; 
VD) bound volumes of periodicals; 
(Ei phonograph recordings; and 
(F) other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photo-
graphic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts. 
(3) Before being entitled to the preferential rates under this sub-
section, the Postmaster General may require an organization or asso-
ciation to furnish satisfactory evidence to him that none of the net 
income inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual. 
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(c) 16-millimeter films, filmstrips, transparencies for projection, 
slides, microfilms, sound recordings, and catalog of those items may 
be mailed at the rates prescribed in subsection (b) (1) of this section 
when sent to or from the institutions, organizations or associations 
listed in (A) and (B) of subsection (b) (1). 
(d) The limit of weight on parcels mailed under this section is 70 
pounds. 
(e) The postage rates prescribed in this section shall continue 
until otherwise provided by the Congress. 
§ 4555. Permissible marks and enclosures 
The sender may not place on or enclose in fourth class mail marks 
that have the character of personal correspondence, but the following 
marks and enclosures may be placed on or in fourth class mail when 
space is left on the address side sufficient for a legible address and 
necessary stamps— 
(1) the sender's name, occupation, and address, preceded by 
the word "from", and directions for transmission, delivery, for-
warding, or return; 
(2) marks other than by written or printed words to call at-
tention to words or passages in the text; 
(3) correction of typographical errors; 
(4) a simple manuscript dedication or inscription not of the 
nature of personal correspondence on the blank leaves or cover 
of a book or other printed matter; 
(5) matter mailable as third class mail printed on the wrapper, 
envelope, tag or label; 
(6) marks, numbers, names or letters for the purpose of 
description printed or written on the wrapper or cover; 
(7) the words "Plesise Do Not Open Until Christmas" or words 
to that effect on the package, wrapper or envelope enclosing the 
same or on a tag or label attached thereto; 
(8) corrections on proof sheets; 
(9) manuscript accompanying proof sheets; and 
(10) matter mailable as third class mail. 
CHAPTER 69—POSTAGE RATES FOR MISCELLANEOUS 
MATTER WITHIN THE VARIOUS CLASSES 
See. 
4651. Keys and other small articles. 
4652. Congressional Record. 
4653. Publications for the blind. 
4654. Reproducers and sound reproduction records for the blind. 
§ 4651. Keys and other small articles 
(a) Any person may mail without prepayment of postage a key, 
identification card, identification tag, or similar identification device, 
or small article which the Postmaster General by regulation designates, 
which bears, contains, or has attached securely thereto— 
(1) a complete, definite, and legible post office address, includ-
ing any street address or box or route number; and 
(2) a notice directing that it be returned to the address, and 
guaranteeing the payment, on delivery, of the postage due thereon. 
(b) Postage at the rate of 5 cents for each two ounces or fraction 
thereof shall be collected on delivery. 
§ 4652. Congressional Record 
The postage on each copy of the daily Congressional Record mailed 
from the District of Columbia as transient matter is one cent. 
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§ 4653. Publications for the blind 
(a) The following matter may be mailed free of postage— 
(1) books, pamphlets, and other reading matter: 
(A) published either in raised characters, whether pre-
pared by hand, or printed, or in the form of sound reproduc-
tion records, for use of the blind; 
(B) in packages not exceeding the weight prescribed by 
the Postmaster General; 
(C) containing no advertising or other matter whatever; 
(D) unsealed; 
(E) sent by public institutions for the blind or by any 
public library as a loan to blind readers, or when returned 
by the latter to the institutions or public libraries; and 
(2) magazines, periodicals and other regularly issued publi-
cations : 
(A) published either in raised characters, whether pre-
pared by hand or printed, or in the form of sound reproduc-
tion records, for the use of the blind; 
(B) containing no advertising; 
(C) for which no subscription fee is charged; and 
(3) books or pages thereof: 
(A) published in raised characters, whether prepared by 
hand or printed; 
(B) containing no advertising; 
(C) sent to a blind person without cost to the blind 
person. 
(b) There may be mailed at the rate of postage of one cent for each 
pound or fraction thereof, magazines, periodicals, and other regularly 
issued publications— 
(1) published either in raised characters, whether prepared by 
hand or printed, or in the form of sound reproduction records, for 
the use of the blind; 
(2) containing no advertisements; and 
(3) when furnished by an organization, institution, or associ-
ation not conducted for private profit, to a blind person, at a 
price not greater than the cost price thereof. 
(c) Volumes of the Holy Scriptures or part thereof, published 
either in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed or 
in the form of sound reproduction records for the use of the blind, 
which do not contain advertisements— 
(1) when furnished to a blind person without charge by an 
organization, institution, or association not conducted for private 
profit, may be mailed free of postage; and 
(2) when furnished to a blind person at a price not greater 
than the cost thereof by an organization, institution, or associ-
ation, not conducted for private profit, may be mailed at the rate 
of one cent for each pound or fraction thereof. 
§ 4654. Reproducers and sound reproduction records for the 
blind 
(a) The postage rate is one cent a pound or fraction thereof on 
reproducers for sound reproduction records for the blind, or parts 
thereof, which are the property of the United States Government 
sent for repair or returned after repair— 
(1) by an organization, institution, public library, or associa-
tion for the blind, not conducted for private profit; 
(2) by a blind person to such an agency not conducted for 
private profit; 
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(3) from such an agency to an organization, institution, pub-
lic library, or association for the blind not conducted for private 
profit; or 
(4) to a blind person. 
(b) The Postmaster General may extend the rate set out in sub-
section (a) of this section to reproducers or parts thereof for sound 
reproduction records for the blind. Braille writers and other appli-
ances for the blind, or parts thereof, that are the property of— 
(1) State governments or subdivisions thereof; or 
(2) public libraries; 
(3) private agencies for the blind not conducted for private 
profit; or 
(4) blind individuals. 
PART V~SPECIAL MAIL AND BANKING 
SERVICE 
CHAPTER 
Sec. 
81. REGISTET, INSURED AND C. O. D. SERVICE 
5001 
83. MONET OBDEB SYSTEM 
5101 
85. POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM 
5201 
CHAPTER 81—REGISTRY, INSURED AND C. O. D. 
SERVICE 
Sec. 
5001. Registry system. 
5002. Registration of letters containing currency. 
5003. Registered official mail. 
5004. Reimbursement for matter mailed without prepayment of registry fee. 
5005. Declaration of full value of registered mail. 
5006. Insurance system. 
5007. CoUect-on-delivery service. 
5008. Undeliverable C. O. D. parcels. 
5009. Restricted delivery. 
5010. Returns receipts. 
5011. Co-insurance. 
5012. Receipts of mailing. 
§ 5001. Registry system 
(a) The Postmaster General may maintain a system of registration 
for the greater security of mail matter. As part of the registry system 
he may indemnify the senders or owners of registered articles for 
their loss, rifling, or damage, in the mails. 
(b) The maximum limit of indemnity payable for a registered 
article is $1,000, or the actual value when that is less than $1,^0, and 
for which no other compensation or reimbursement has been made. 
However, the Postmaster General may provide for the payment of 
indemnity for the actual value of a registered article, or an insured 
article treated as a registered article, in excess of $1,000, but not in 
excess of $10,000 when the article is not insured with another insur-
ing agency. 
(c) The Postmaster General may cause liability or risk assumed 
by the Department, in connection with the mailing of a particular 
registered article, to be underwritten or reinsured in whole or in part, 
with a commercial insurance company. 
(d) An additional fee, known as a surcharge, may be required for 
a registered article, or for an insured article treated as a registered 
article, that has a declared value in excess of the maximum indemnity 
covered by the registry or insurance fee. 
(e) The official mail of the Department, which requires registration, 
may be registered without payment of registry fee. 
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§ 5002. Registration of letters containing currency 
The Postmaster General shall accept for registration without pre-
payment of registry fee— 
(1) letters containing fractional or other currency sent for redemp-
tion to the Department of the Treasury; 
(2) letters sent from the District of Columbia, by the Department 
of the Treasury containing new currency for currency redeemed when 
marked with the word "register" over the official signature of the 
sending officer. 
§ 5003. Registered official mail 
(a) An executive department or agency, independent establish-
ment of the Government, or Government corporation, or the Public 
Printer, may register official domestic letter or parcel requiring 
registration without prepayment of the fees. 
(b) Matter requiring registration relating to naturalization or to 
the census, which is entitled to be sent without prepayment of postage, 
may be registered without prepayment of registry fee. 
§ 5004. Reimbursement for matter mailed without payment of 
registry fees 
Executive departments and agencies, independent establishments of 
the Government and Government corporations concerned shall trans-
fer to the Department as postal revenue out of appropriations or 
funds available to them, as a necessary expense of the appropriation 
or funds and of the activity concerned, the equivalent amount of reg-
istry fees, as determined by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in 
(he mails without prepayment of the fee, by or to them under authority 
of sections 5002 or 5003 of this title. 
§ 
5005. Declaration of full value of registered mail 
(a) Unless otherwise prescribed by the Postmaster General, the 
mailer shall declare the full value of registered mail, or insured mail 
treated as registered mail at the time of mailing. 
The Postmaster 
General may not pay a claim for indemnity if the value was know-
ingly and willfully misstated. 
(b) The Postmaster General may determine upon what part of the 
declared value in excess of the maximum indemnity covered by the 
fee paid, surcharges shall be based for registered mail, or insured 
mail treated as registered mail, which may be carried at less than the 
maximum risk of loss in the mails. 
§ 5006. Insurance system 
The Postmaster General shall provide for the indemnification, 
by insurance or otherwise, not to exceed $200, for an article sent by 
third class or fourth class mail which is injured or lost in the mail. 
§ 5007. Collect-on-delivery service 
(a) The Postmaster General shall provide for the collection 
on delivery of the postage and price of an article mailed as first, third, 
or fourth class, or registered, mail. 
(b) The maximum amount of charges collectible and the maximum 
amount of indemnity payable on a collect-on-delivery article is $200, 
except that indemnity in excess of $200, but not in excess of the limit 
of indemnity for registered mail, may be paid in the case of a 
registered collect-on-delivery article. 
§ 5008. UndeliverableC.O.D. parcels 
(a) The Postmaster General ma;^ return to the sender charged 
with return postage a collect-on-delivery article that the addressee 
fails to remove from the post office within fifteen days from the 
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first attempt to deliver or the first notice of arrival at the office 
of address, regardless of whether the parcel bears a specified time 
limit for delivery. He may collect a demurrage charge when delivery 
has not been made to either the addressee or the sender until after 
the expiration of the prescribed period. He may not charge demur-
rage on coUect-on-delivery articles exchanged between post offices 
in the continental United States and post offices in the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Eico, the Territories and'possessions of the United States, 
(b) The Postmaster General may direct the immediate return to 
the sender, charged with return postage, of an undeliverable coUect-
on-delivery article. 
§ 5009. Restricted delivery 
(a) The Postmaster General mav provide for domestic re^stered, 
insured, and coUect-on-delivery and other mail accorded special serv-
ices to be restricted in delivery to the addressee only, or to the addressee 
or order. He shall charge an additional fee for this service. 
(b) The Postmaster (^neral may refund fees paid for this service 
only upon request and when the postal service is at fault for the 
erroneous delivery or the nondelivery of the article. 
§ 5010. Return receipts 
(a) Upon payment of the fee prescribed by him, the Postmaster 
General shall provide senders of mail, receipts showing either— 
(1) to whom and when the article was delivered, or 
(2) to whom, when, and the address where the article was 
delivered. 
(b) Receipts furnished under subsection (a) of this section shall 
be received in the courts as prima facie evidence of the delivery. 
(c) The Postmaster General may refund fees paid for receipts 
under subsection (a) of this section when the failure to furnish the 
receipt, or the equivalent, is the fault of the postal service. 
§ 5011. Co-insurance 
Claims for indemnity involving registered mail, insured mail 
treated as registered mail, other insured mail or coUect-on-delivery 
mail which is also insured with another insuring agency shall be ad-
justed by the Postmaster General on a pro rata basis as a co-insurer 
with the other insuring agency. 
§ 5012. Receipts of mailing 
The Postmaster General may provide for the issuance to the sender 
of a receipt or certificate showing the mailing of ordinary mail, and 
additional receipts for the mailing of registered, insured, and collect-
on-delivery mail. 
CHAPTER 83—MONEY ORDER SYSTEM 
Sec. 
5101. Money order system. 
5102. Issuance of money orders. 
5103. Payment of money orders. 
5104. Indorsement of orders. 
5105. Postal notes. 
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§ 5101. Money order system 
To promote public convenience, and insure greater security in 
remitting funds through the mail, the Postmaster General may main-
tain a money order system. 
§ 5102. Issuance of money orders 
(a) The Postmaster General shall cause money orders to be issued 
at such post offices, including stations and branches, as he designates. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not permit a money order to be 
issued under this chapter for more than $100. 
(c) A money order is not valid unless drawn upon a form furnished 
by the Postmaster General. 
(d) The Postmaster General may not permit money orders to be 
issued on the condition that identification of the payee, indorsee, or 
attorney may be waived, nor permit payment to be made of a money 
order so issued. 
§ 5103. Payment of money orders 
(a) The Postmaster General shall provide for the payment of 
money orders to the payee, indorsee, or remitter at offices at which 
money orders are issued. 
(b) When a money order has been lost the Postmaster General, 
upon evidence satisfactory to him, may pay the face value thereof or 
issue a duplicate money order, without charge, to the person he deter-
mines is entitled thereto. 
(c) The records of the Department shall serve as the basis for 
adjudicating claims for payment of money orders. 
(d) The Postmaster General may not pay a money order after 
twenty years from the last day of the month of original issue. Claims 
for unpaid money orders are forever barred unless received by the 
Department within that period. 
§ 5104. Indorsement of orders 
The payee of a money order, by his written indorsement thereon, 
may direct it to be paid to any other person who shall be entitled to 
payment upon furnishing such proof as the Postmaster General re-
quires that the indorsement is genuine, and that he is the person named 
therein. More than one indorsement renders an order invalid. The 
holder of such an order, if otherwise entitled thereto, may obtain 
payment under such application and proof of the genuineness of the 
indorsements as the Postmaster General requires. 
§ 5105. Postal notes 
(a) The Postmaster General may authorize postmasters at offices 
designated by him to issue and pay money orders not exceeding $10, 
to be known as postal notes. 
(b) Postal notes are valid for two calendar months from the last 
day of the month of their issue, but thereafter the Postmaster General 
may pay them or make refund in case of loss, upon evidence satisfac-
tory to him. The Postmaster General may not consider a claim filwi 
later than one year from the last day of the month of issue of the 
postal note unless the original postal note is presented with the claim 
and a duplicate postal note has not been issued therefor. 
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CHAPTER 85—POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM 
Sec. 
5201. Faith of United States pledged to payment of deposits. 
5202. Definitions. 
5203. Establisiunent of system. 
5204. Regulations of Board of Trustees. 
5205. Annual report of Board of Trustees. 
5206. Depository offices. 
5207. Opening of accounts. 
5208. Deposits and withdrawals. 
5209. Claims on paid postal savings certificates. 
5210. Depositors. 
5211. Amount of deposits. 
5212. Privacy of accounts. 
5213. Interest on deposits. 
5214. Cash reserve. 
5215. Apportionment of funds among banks. 
5216. Security for funds deposited in banks. 
5217. Interest on bank deposits. 
5218. Purchase of Government obligations. 
5219. Sources of funds to pay depositors. 
5220. Bank fees on postal savings business. 
5221. Application of income from postal savings funds. 
5222. Judgment adjudicating right or interest in deposit. 
5223. Liability for outstanding postal savings stamps. 
5224. Disposal of paid certificates. 
§ 5201. Faith of United States pledged to payment of deposits 
The faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment 
of the deposits made in postal savings depository offices, with accrued 
interest thereon as provided in this chapter. 
§ 5202. 
Definitions 
As used in this chapter "bank" means a bank, including savings 
banks and trust companies doing a banking business, which is subject 
to national or state supervision and examination. 
§ 5203. Establishment of system 
(a) The Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings System, consist-
ing of the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Treasury, 
except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall control, supervise 
and administer the Postal Savings System. 
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall designate an officer or 
employee of the Department of the Treasury as Treasurer of the 
Board of Trustees. The Secretary of the Treasury may employ per-
sonnel and expend sums for contingent and miscellaneous items neces-
sary to transact the business of the Postal Savings System in the 
office of the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, utilizing therefor 
money advanced to the Secretary of the Treasury out of any available 
appropriation for the establishment, maintenance, and extension of 
postal savings depositories. 
§ 5204. Regulations of Board of Trustees 
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Board of Trustees 
may make regulations for the receipt, transmittal, custody, deposit, 
investment and repayment of the funds deposited at postal savings 
depository offices. 
§ 5205. Annual report of Board of Trustees 
The Board of Trustees shall submit a report to Congress at the 
beginning of each regular session showing by States, Territories, the 
District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for the 
preceding fiscal year— 
^1) the number and names of post offices receiving deposits; 
(2) the aggregate amount of deposits made therein; 
(3) the aggregate amount of withdrawals therefrom; 
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(4) the number of depositors; 
(5) the total amount standing to the credit of all depositors 
at the conclusion of the year; 
(6) the amount of deposits a,t interest; 
(7) the amount of interest received thereon; 
(8) the amount of interest paid thereon; 
(9) the number and amount of unclaimed deposits; 
(10) the amount invested in Government securities by the Board 
of Trustees; 
(11) the expense of the Department and postal service inci-
dent to the operation of the postal savings depository system; and 
(12) other facts deemed pertinent and proper. 
§ 5206. Depository offices 
The Postmaster General shall designate post offices which are to 
be postal savings depository offices and shall prescribe the hours 
during which they shall remain open. 
§ 5207. Opening of accounts 
Upon receipt of an application to open a postal savings account, 
and the tender of an initial deposit, the postal savings depository 
office shall deliver to the depositor evidence of the deposit free of 
cost. 
§ 5208. Deposits and withdrawals 
The Postmaster General shall prescribe reflations with respect to 
deposits in and withdrawals from postal savings accounts, ana shall 
provide for the issuance of pass books or other devices as evidence 
of deposits and withdrawals. 
§ 5209. Claims on paid postal savings certificates 
(a) Claims for payment of a postal savings certificate, or other 
evidence of deposit in the postal savings depository system, including 
duplicates, which are shown by the records of the Department to have 
been duly paid, are barred if not presented to the Postmaster General 
within six years from the date on which the records show that they 
were paid. 
(b) Final determination by the Postmaster General as to whether 
payment properly has been made on postal savings certificates or other 
evidences of deposit in the postal savings depository system, including 
duplicates, shall be based upon the official records of the Department. 
§ 5210. Depositors 
A person ten years of age or over, in his own name, and a married 
woman in her own name and free from control or interference by her 
husband, may open and maintain one postal savings account at a time. 
§ 5211. Amount of deposits 
A depositor may make deposits in amounts of $5 or multiples 
thereof. Interest is not payable on any balance in excess of $2,500, 
exclusive of accumulated interest. 
§ 5212. Privacy of accounts 
Persons connected with the Department may not disclose the 
amount of a deposit to any person other than the depositor, unless 
directed to do so by the Postmaster General. 
§ 5213. Interest on deposits 
(a) The Postmaster General shall pay depositors interest on savings 
accounts at the rate of 2 per centum per year, but not in excess of the 
rate permitted to be paid on savings deposits by regulations prescribed 
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, pursuant 
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to section 37lb of title 12, by member banks of the System located 
nearest to the place where the depository office in which the deposit 
was made. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall compute interest on deposits 
under such regulations as the Board of Trustees prescribes, and 
shall enter it to the credit of the depositor once for each quarter, 
beginning with the first day of the month following the date of the 
deposit. He may not allow interest on any part of funds deposited 
for a period of less than three months or on fractions of a dollar. 
§ 5214. Cash reserve 
The Treasurer of the Board of Trustees shall maintain five percent 
of all postal savings funds in a cash reserve. 
§ 5215. Apportionment of funds among banks 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Board of 
Trustees shall deposit postal savings funds received at a postal 
savings depository office in the banks in that locality, substantially in 
proportion to the capital and surplus of each bank willing to receive 
deposits under the terms of this chapter, and the regulations of the 
Board. 
(b) If no qualified bank in the locality in which the funds were 
received at postal savings depository offices is willing to receive 
deposits of postal savings funds on the terms prescribed, the Board 
shall deposit the funds in the bank most convenient to the depository 
office. 
§ 5216. Security for funds deposited in banks 
The Board of Trustees, to the extent that the deposits are not in-
sured under section 264 of title 12, shall require banks receiving 
deposits of postal savings funds to provide such security in public 
bonds or other securities authorized by act of Congress, or supported 
by the taxing power, as it deems sufficient and necessary to insure the 
safety and prompt payment of the deposits. 
§ 5217. Interest on bank deposits 
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, depository banks shall 
pay interest on postal savings funds at a rate uniform throughout 
the United States and territories thereof of not less than 2^4 per 
centum a year. 
(b) The Board of Trustees may deposit postal savings funds on time 
in member banks of the Federal Reserve System, subject to the pro-
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visious of sectiou 371b of title 12 and of the regulations of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 
§ 5218. Purchase of Government obligations 
(a) When the postal savings deposits in a State, Territory, the 
District of ColumDia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico exceed 
the amount which qualified banks therein are willing to receive the 
Board of Trustees may invest any excess in bonds or other securities 
of the United States or in other obligations which are lawful invest-
ments for trust funds of the United States. 
(b) When in the judgment of the President the general welfare and 
interest of the United States so require, the Board of Trustees may 
invest all or any part of the postal savings funds in bonds or other 
securities of the United States or in other obligations which are lawful 
investments for trust funds of the United States. 
§ 5219. Sources of funds to pay depositors 
(a) Postal funds used to pay postal savings depositors shall be 
replaced from postal savings funds on deposit in the State, Territory, 
the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico inso-
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far as they may be sufficient for the purpose and so far as practicable, 
from postal savings funds on deposit in the community in AA'hich the 
depositor maintains his account. 
(b) The Board of Trustees may obtain funds needed to meet with-
drawals of postal savings depositors either by withdrawals of funds 
on deposit with banks or by disposal of bonds held as postal savings 
investments. 
§ 5220. Bank fees on postal savings business 
Banks in which postal savings funds are deposited may not receive 
a fee or compensation on account of the cashing or collection of a 
check or the performance of other service in connection with tlie 
Postal Savings System. 
§ 5221. Application of income from postal savings funds 
The Postmaster General shall apply interest and profit accruing 
from the deposits or investment of postal savings funds to the pay-
ment of interest due to postal savings depositors, covering any ex-
cess into the Treasury of the United States as a part of the postal 
revenue. 
§ 5222. Judgment adjudicating right or interest in deposit 
Tlie Board of Trustees shall accept as conclusive the final judg-
ment, order, or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction adjudi-
cating any right or interest in a postal savings account, after time 
for appeal has expired, upon submission of a copy to the Postmaster 
General authenticated in accordance with section 1738 of title 28. 
Payments made in accordance therewith discharge the Postal Savings 
System and the United States from further claim or demand for the 
sum so paid. 
§ 5223. Liability for outstanding postal savings stamps 
Stamps formerly issued under the authority of section 757 (c) of 
title 31, and section 6 of the Act of June 25,1910 (ch. 386,36 Stat. 816), ^ i use 757c. 
as amended, are not liabilities of the Board of Trustees of the Postal 
Savings System, but are public debt obligations of the United States. 
§ 5224. Disposal of paid certificates 
The Postmaster General may destroy, or otherwise dispose of, 
postal-savings certificates or other evidences of deposit in the postal-
savings depository system, including duplicates, after the expiration 
of six years from the date payment thereon has been made as shown 
by the records of the Post Office Department. 
PART VI—DELIVERY AND TRANSPORTATION 
SERVICES 
CHAPTBK 
See. 
91. DELIVEHY SERVICE 
6001 
93. AUTHORITY TO TRANSPORT MAIL 
6101 
95. Transportation of mail by railroad 
6201 
97. TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL BY AIR 
6301 
99. HIGHWAY POST OFFICES 
6351 
101. TRANSPORTATION OP MAIL OTHER THAN BY RAIL, AIR, OR HIGHWAY 
POST OFFICE 
6401 
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CHAPTER 91—DELIVERY SERVICE 
Sec. 
6001. City delivery service. 
6002. Village delivery service. 
6003. Receiving boxes. 
6004. Delivery of mail at stations or branches. 
6005. Rural delivery service. 
6006. Special delivery service. 
6007. Fee paid to persons making delivery of special delivery mail. 
6008. Special handling. 
6009. Community mail boxes. 
§ 6001. City delivery service 
(a) The Postmaster General shall establish city delivery service 
for the free delivery of mail, as frequently as the public business 
may require, at every incorporated city, village, or borough containing 
a population of fifty thousand within its corporate limits. 
(b) The Postmaster General may establish city delivery service for 
the free delivery of mail— 
(1) at a place containing a population of not less than ten 
thousand, within its corporate limits, according to the last general 
census, taken by authority of State or United States law; or 
(2) at a post office which produces a gross revenue, for the 
preceding fiscal year, of not less than $10,000; or 
(3) upon consolidation of two or more post offices situated with-
in the corporate limits of a city, village, or borough, which 
offices produced revenue of not less than $10,000 for the preceding 
fiscal year. 
(c) The Postmaster General may continue city delivery service at 
post offices where it is established, even though there is a decrease 
below ten thousand in population or $10,000 in gross postal revenue. 
§ 6002. Village delivery service 
(a) The Postmaster General may establish village delivery service 
for the free delivery of mail in towns and villages having post offices 
of the third class that are not by law entitled to city delivery service. 
(b) When a post office becomes a post office of the second class the 
Postmaster General may not continue village delivery service at that 
office. 
§ 6003. Receiving boxes 
(a) When the public convenience requires, the Postmaster General 
may provide receiving boxes for the deposit of mail and for the col-
lection of mail deposited therein. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not place a receiving box inside 
a building except a railroad station, a public building, or a building 
which is freely open to the public during business hours. He may 
declare that chutes or other devices approved by him which are con-
nected with receiving boxes are part thereof and under the exclusive 
care and custody of the Department. 
§ 6004. Delivery of mail at stations or branches 
The Postmaster General may not transmit a letter to a branch 
post office or station for delivery to an addressee contrary to the request 
of the addressee. 
§ 6005. Rural delivery service 
The Postmaster General shall maintain a rural delivery service for 
the free delivery of mail serving as nearly as practicable the entire 
rural population of the United States. 
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§ 6006. Special delivery service 
(a) When a special delivery fee is prepaid in addition to the regular 
postage the Postmaster General shall give the most expeditious 
handling and transportation practicable to mail of any class and 
immediate delivery within— 
(1) one mile of a post office; 
(2) one mile of substations or branches as the Postmaster 
General may designate; and 
(3) the delivery limits of a post office having carrier delivery 
service. 
(b) The postmaster is responsible for the immediate delivery of 
every special delivery article received at his office for delivery. 
§ 6007. Fee paid to persons making delivery of special delivery 
mail 
(a) The Postmaster General shall pay persons, other than special 
delivery messengers at post offices of the first class, making delivery 
of special delivery mail— 
(1) 9 cents for first class mail weighing not more than two 
pounds; 
(2) 10 cents for other mail weighing not more than two 
pounds; 
(3) 15 cents for mail of any class weighing more than two 
pounds but not more than ten pounds; and 
(4) 20 cents for mail of any class weighing more than ten 
pounds. 
(b) At post offices of the second, third and fourth class, the Post-
master General may employ any person, including postmasters, assist-
ants, and clerks, to deliver special delivery mail. 
§ 6008. Special handling 
Upon payment of a special handling fee, fourth class mail is entitled 
to the most expeditious handling and transportation practicable. 
§ 6009. Community mail boxes 
The Postmaster Greneral may erect and maintain community boxes 
and suitable sheltered racks or stands for rural mail boxes, in such 
selected localities as he determines. The boxes may have separate 
compartments for incoming and outgoing mail. Rural patrons may 
rent box units, rack space, or stands at such monthly or annual rates 
as the Postmaster General determines, based on the cost of installation 
and maintenance. The cost of the installation and maintenance of 
community boxes and sheltered stands may not exceed $2,000 a year. 
CHAPTER 
93—AUTHORITY 
TO 
TRANSPORT MAIL 
Sec. 
6101. Provisions for carrying the mail. 
6102. Emergency mail service in Alaska. 
6103. Transportation of mail of adjoining countries through the United States. 
6104. Mails to be carried on United States registered vessels. 
6105. Establishment of post roads. 
6106. Discontinuance of service on post roads. 
6107. Preferred treatment of letter mail. 
§ 6101. Provisions for carrying the mail 
(a) The Postmaster General shall provide for the transportation 
of mail by land, air or water as often as he deems proper under the 
circumstances— 
(1) within, among and between, the United States, its Ter-
ritories, territories under trusteeship, possessions, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, and Armed Forces; and 
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(2) between the United States, its Territories, territories under 
trusteeship, possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or 
its Armed Forces, and any foreign country, 
(b) The Postmaster General shall provide for the transportation 
of mail to the courthouse of every county in the United States. 
§ 6102. Emergency mail service in Alaska 
i 
The Postmaster General may provide difficult or emergency mail 
service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay 
stations, in such manner as he deems advisable, without advertising 
therefor, at a total annual cost not exceeding $25,000. 
§ 6103. Transportation of mail of adjoining countries through 
the United States 
The Postmaster General, by and with the advice and consent of the 
President, may make arrangements to allow the mail of countries 
adjoining the United States to be transported over the territory 
of the United States from one point in that country to any 
other point therein, at the expense of the country to which the mail 
belongs, upon obtaining a like privilege for the transportation of the 
United States mail through the country to which the privilege is 
granted. 
The President or Congress may annul the privilege at 
any time. The privilege shall terminate one month succeeding the 
day on which notice of the act of the President or Congress is given 
to the chief executive or head of the post office department of the 
country whose privilege is to be annulled. 
§ 6104. Mails to be carried on United States registered vessels 
Mail of the United States shall, insofar as practicable, be carried 
on vessels of United States registry between ports between which 
it is lawful under the navigation laws for a vessel not documented 
under the laws of the United States to carry merchandise. 
§ 6105. Establishment of post roads 
The following are post roads— 
(1) the waters of the United States, during the time the mail 
is carried thereon; 
(2) railroads or parts of railroads and air routes in operation; 
(3) canals, during the time the mail is carried thereon; 
(4) public roads, highways, and toll roads during the time the 
mail is carried thereon; and 
(5) letter-carrier routes established for the collection and 
delivery of mail. 
§ 6106. Discontinuance of service on post roads 
The Postmaster General may discontinue service on a post road 
or part thereof when, in his opinion— 
(1) the postal service cannot safely be continued; 
(2) the revenues cannot be collected; 
(3) the laws cannot be maintained; or 
(4) the public interest so requires. 
§ 6107. Preferred treatment of letter mail 
The Postmaster General may provide for the preferential treat-
ment of first class mail, without unnecessary delay to other mail, when 
the quantity of mail to be transported over any route— 
(1) seriously retards the progress or endangers the security 
of the mail; or 
(2) materially increases the cost of transportation at the ordi-
nary rate of speed. 
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CHAPTER 95—TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL BY 
RAILROAD 
Sec. 
6201. Definition. 
6202. Service by railroad and vessel. 
6203. Authorization of service by railroads. 
6204. Facilities provided by railroad. 
6205. Changes in service. 
6206. Evidence of service. 
6207. Fines and deductions. 
6208. Interstate Commerce Commission to 
fix 
rates. 
6209. Procedures. 
6210. Special rates. 
6211. Authority to distinguish between classes of mail. 
6212. Discrimination in transporting second class mail. 
6213. Transportation by motor vehicle. 
6214. Statistical studies. 
6215. Special contracts. 
§ 6201. Definition 
As used in this chapter, unless otherwise specified, "railroad" means 
a railway common carrier, including an electric urban and interurban 
railway common carrier. 
§ 6202. Service by railroad 
This chapter applies to mail transportation performed by a railroad 
by rail or combination of rail, vessel and motor vehicle, or as provided 
by section 6213 of this title. 
§ 6203. Authorization of service by railroad 
(a) The Postmaster General may establish railroad mail routes 
and authorize mail transportation service thereon. He may transport 
equipment and supplies of the Department as mail thereon. 
(b) A railroad shall transport mail including equipment and sup-
plies of the Department offered for transportation by the United States 
in the manner, under the conditions, and with the service prescribed 
bv the Postmaster General. It is entitled to receive fair and reason-
able compensation for the transportation and services connected there-
with. 
(c) The Postmaster General shall determine the trains upon which 
mail shall be transported. 
(d) A railroad shall transport with due speedj on any train it 
operates, such mail, including equipment and supplies of the Depart-
ment, as the Postmaster General directs. 
(e) A railroad engaged in the transportation of mail shall trans-
port on any train it operates upon exhibiting their credentials and 
without extra charge therefor— 
(1) persons m charge of the mail when on duty and traveling 
to and from duty; ana 
(2) accredited agents and officers, including postal inspectors, 
of the Department while traveling on official business. 
§ 6204. Facilities provided by railroads 
(a) A railroad engaged in the transportation of mail shall provide 
the following equipment and facilities— 
(1) cars or parts of cars used in the transportation and dis-
tribution of mail; 
(2) facilities for protecting and handling mail in its custody; 
(3) station space and rooms for handling, storing and trans-
fer of mail in transit, including the separation thereof by pack-
ages for connecting lines, and for distribution of registered mail 
in transit; and 
(4) when required by the Postmaster General, offices for em-
ployees of the postal transportation service engaged in station 
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work, in which mail from station boxes may be distributed if 
additional space is not required therefor. 
(b) Railway post office cars or parts thereof used for mail trans-
portation and distribution must be of such construction, style, length, 
and character, and must be equipped in such manner as the Postmaster 
General requires. They must be constructed, equipped, maintained, 
heated, lighted, and cleaned by and at the expense of the railroad. 
The Postmaster General may not pay for full and apartment railway 
post office car service unless the car furnished therefor is sound in 
material and construction, equipped with sanitary drinking water 
containers and toilet facilities, and regularly and thoroughly cleaned. 
He may not accept or pay for service by a full railway post office car 
unless the car is constructed of steel, steel underframe, or equally 
indestructible material. 
(c) A railroad shall place cars used for full or apartment rail-
way post office car service in stations at such times before the departure 
of the trains as the Postmaster General directs. 
§ 6205. Changes in service 
The Postmaster General may authorize, according to the need there-
for, new or additional mail transportation service by railroad at the 
rates or compensation fixed pursuant to this chapter. 
He may reduce 
or discontinue service with pro rata reductions in compensation. 
The 
Postmaster General may not pay for additional service which he has 
not specifically authorized. 
§ 6206. Evidence of service 
A railroad shall submit evidence of the performance of mail trans-
portation service, signed by an authorized official, in such form and 
at such times as the Postmaster General requires. Mail transporta-
tion service is considered that of the railroad performing it regard-
less of the ownership of the property used by the railroad. 
§ 6207. Fines and deductions 
(a) For refusal to perform mail transportation service required by 
the Postmaster General at rates or method of compensation estab-
lished under this chapter, the Postmaster General shall fine— 
(1) an electric urban or interurban railroad, $100; and 
(2) any other railroad, $1,000. 
Each day of refusal constitutes a separate offense. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall fine a railroad an amount he 
deems reasonable for— 
(1) failure or refusal to transport mail, equipment, and sup-
plies on any train it operates when required by the Postmaster 
General; 
(2) failure or refusal to furnish cars or apartments in cars for 
distribution purposes when required by the Postmaster General; 
(3) failure or refusal to construct, equip, maintain, heat, light, 
and clean cars or apartments in cars for distribution purposes; 
(4) failure or refusal to furnish appliances for use in case of 
accident, as required by the Postmaster General, in cars or apart-
ments in cars used for distribution purposes; or 
(5) other delinquencies in mail transportation and the service 
connected therewith. 
(c) The Postmaster General may make deductions from the com-
pensation of a railroad for failure to perform mail transportation 
service as authorized and, if the failure to perform is due to the fault 
of the railroad, he may deduct a sum not exceeding three times the 
compensation applying to such service. 
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§ 6208. Interstate Commerce Commission to fix rates 
(a) The Interstate Commerce Commission shall determine and 
fix from time to time the fair and reasonable rates or compensation 
for the transportation of mail by railroad and the service connected 
therewith and prescribe the method for computing such rates or com-
pensation. 
The Commission shall publish its orders stating its deter-
mination under this section which shall remain in force until changed 
by it after notice and hearing. 
(b) For the purpose of determining and fixing rates or compensa-
tion under this section, the Commission may make just and reasonable 
classifications of railroads and, where just and equitable, fix general 
rates applicable to railroads in the same classification. 
(c) In determining and fixing fair and reasonable rates under this 
section, the Commission shall consider the relation between the Gov-
ernment and railroads as public service corporations, and the nature 
of public service as distinguished, if there is a distinction, from the 
ordinary transportation business of the railroads. 
§ 6209. 
Procedures 
(a) At any time after six months from the entry of an order stat-
ing the Commission's determination under section 6208 of this title, 
the Postmaster General or an interested railroad may apply for a 
re-examination and substantially similar proceedings as have thereto-
fore been had shall be followed with respect to the rates for services 
covered by the application. 
At the conclusion of the hearing the 
Commission shall enter an order stating its determination. 
(b) Except as authorized by sections 6210 and 6215 of this title, 
the Postmaster General shall pay a railroad the rates or compensa-
tion so determined and fixed for application at such stated times as 
named in the order. 
(c) The Postmaster General may file with the Commission a com-
prehensive plan, stating— 
(1) his requirements for the transportation of mail by rail-
road; 
(2) the number, equipment, size, and construction of the cars 
necessary for the transaction of the business; 
(3) the character and speed of the trains which are to carry 
the various kinds of mail; 
(4) the service, both terminal and en route, which carriers are 
to render; 
(5) what he believes to be the fair and reasonable rates or com-
pensation for the services required; 
(6) all other information which may be material to the inquiry, 
but such other information may be filed at any time in the dis-
cretion of the Commission. 
(d) When a comprehensive plan is filed, the Commission shall give 
notice of not less than thirty days to each railroad required by the 
Postmaster General to transport mail. A railroad may file its answer 
at the time fixed by the Commission, but not later than thirty days 
after the expiration date fixed by the Commission in the notice, and the 
Commission shall proceed with the hearing. 
§ 6210. Special rates 
(a) Upon petition by the Postmaster General the Commission shall 
determine and fix carload or less-than-ciarload rates for the transporta-
tion of fourth class and periodical mail. A railroad shall perform the 
service at the rates so determined when requested to do so and under 
the conditions prescribed by the Postmaster General. 
(b) The Postmaster General may make special arrangements with 
railroads for the transportation of mail in freight trains at rates not 
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in excess of the usual and just freight rates in accordance with 
classifications and tariffs filed with or prescribed by the Commission. 
§ 6211. Authority to distinguish between classes of mail 
The Postmaster General may distinguish between the several classes 
of mail and arrange for less frequent dispatches of mail, other than 
first class mail, when lower transportation rates or other economies 
may be secured without material detriment to the service. 
§ 6212. Discrimination in transporting second class mail 
(a) The Postmaster General may not transport a publication by 
freight if this method of mail transportation results in unfair dis-
crimination against the owner of the publication. 
(b) When the owner of a publication required by order of the 
Department to be transported by freight believes that this method 
of transportation unfairly discriminates against him, he may file a 
written application with the Department for a hearing. 
Thereafter 
he shall be given an opportunity for a hearing before the Department. 
Pending final determination no change may be made in the method 
of transportation of the publication as ordered by the Department. 
(c) Prior to the entry of an order stating the Department's de-
termination, the Postmaster General shall cause the testimony in the 
hearing under this section to be reduced to writing and filed in the 
Department. 
(d) If the Department after the hearings determines by order that 
there is no unfair discrimination, the publisher may, within a period 
of twenty days after the date of the order, petition the United States 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for review of the order, 
by filing in the court a written petition praying that the order be 
set aside. The clerk of the court shall transmit a copy of the petition 
to the Department and thereupon the Department shall file in the 
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court the record as provided in section 2112 of title 28. Upon the 
filing of the petition the court shall have jurisdiction to examine, set 
aside or modify the order of the Department. 
(e) The jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the 
District of Columbia to affirm, set aside, or modify the orders of the 
Department is exclusive. 
(f) The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colum-
bia shall give precedence to proceedings under this section over other 
pending cases and they shall be expedited in every way. 
§ 6213. Transportation by motor vehicle 
The Postmaster General may permit a railroad to perform mail 
transportation by motor vehicle over highways in lieu of service by 
rail at rates or compensation not exceeding those allowable for similar 
service by rail. 
§ 6214. Statistical studies 
The Postmaster General may arrange for weighing and measuring 
mail transported on railroad mail routes and make other computa-
tions for statistical and administrative purposes to carry out the 
purposes of this chapter and pay the expense thereof out of appro-
priations available to the Department. 
§ 6215. Special contracts 
The Postmaster General may enter into special contracts with rail-
roads for terms not to exceed 4 years for the transportation of mail 
and the service connected therewith without advertising for bids. 
He 
may contract to pay lower rates or compensation, or where in his 
judgment conditions warrant, higher rates or compensation, than 
those determined and fixed by the Commission. 
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CHAPTER 97—TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL BY AIR 
SPC. 
6301. Rules and regulations. 
G302. Special arrangement in Alaska. 
6303. Air star routes. 
6304. Fines on aircraft carriers transporting the mails. 
6305. Airmail flyer's Medal of Honor. 
§ 6301. Rules and regulations 
The Postmaster General may make such rules, regulations and 
orders not inconsistent with sections 1301-1542 of title 49, or any 
order, rule, or regulation made by the Civil Aeronautics Board there-
under, as may be necessary for the safe and expeditious carriage of 
mail by aircraft. 
§ 6302. Special arrangement in Alaska 
(a) When in the opinion of the Postmaster General the postal 
service requires the transportation of mail by aircraft in Alaska, 
and where transportation of mail by aircraft has not been author-
ized by the Civil Aeronautics Board under sections 1371-1386 of 
title 49, the Postmaster General, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, after advertisement in accordance with law, may contract 
for the carriage of any class of mail by aircraft. The transportation 
of mail under contracts entered into under this section, is not, except 
for sections 1371 (k) and 1386(b) of title 49 and "air transportation" 
as that term is defined in section 1301 of title 49, and the rates of com-
pensation therefor may not be fixed under sections 1301-1542 of title 
49. The Postmaster General shall transmit a copy of each contract 
made pursuant to this section to the Board at the time it is let. 
He 
shall cancel such a contract upon the issuance by the Board of an 
authorization under sections 1371-1386 of title 49 to any air carrier 
to engage in the transportation of mail by aircraft between any of 
the points named in the contract. 
(b) An air carrier authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board under 
sections 1371-1386 of title 49 to engage in the transportation of mail 
by aircraft in Alaska, may be required by the Postmaster General to 
transport, within the limits of the authorization, any class of mail. 
The Board shall determine and fix the rates of compensation to be paid 
for the transportation in accordance with the provisions of sections 
1301-1542 of title 49. 
§ 6303. Air star routes 
(a) The Postmaster General may contract for the transportation of 
any class of mail by aircraft upon star routes— 
(1) whenever he finds it to be in the public interest because 
of the nature of the terrain or the impracticability or inade-
quacy of surface transportation; and 
(2) where the cost is reasonably compatible with the service 
to be performed. 
(b) Prior to advertising for bids for the transportation of mail by 
aircraft under this section, the Postmaster General shall obtain from 
the (^ivil Aeronautics Board a certification that the proposed route 
<loos not conflict with the development of air transportation as con-
templated under sections 1301-1542 of title 49. Upon receipt of a 
request from the Postmaster General for certification, the Board 
shall— 
(1) promptly publish in the Federal Register and send to such 
persons as the Board by regulation determines, a notice describing 
the proposed air star route; 
(2) thereafter afford interested persons a reasonable oppor-
tunity to submit written data, views, or arguments with or with-
out the opportunity to present them orally; 
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(3) consider all relevant matter presented; and 
(4) grant, not less than thirty days after notice, the requested 
certification upon finding that the proposed route does not con-
flict with the development of air transportation as contemplated 
under sections 1301-1542 of title 49. The Board may grant the 
requested certification upon less notice if it for good cause finds 
that thirty days advance notice is impracticable, unnecessary, or 
contrary to the public interest, and incorporates this finding and 
a brief statement of the reasons therefor in its order granting 
the certification. 
(c) The Postmaster General may not consider a bid for a con-
tract under this section unless the bidder is a resident of or qualified 
to do business as a common carrier in a State within which one or 
more points to be served under the proposed contract are located. As 
used in this subsection^ "State" includes the Territory of Hawaii and 
the District of Columbia. 
(d) The Postmaster General shall cancel a contract made under 
this section upon the issuance by the Board of an authorization under 
sections 1371-1386 of title 49 to an air carrier to engage in the trans-
portation of mail by aircraft between any of the points named in the 
contract. 
(e) All laws and regulations governing star routes not in conflict 
witli this section are applicable to contracts made under the authority 
of this section. 
(f) Sections 1371-1376,1380,1381, and 1385 of title 49 do not apply 
to the transportation of mail under this section. 
§ 6304. Fines on aircraft carriers transporting the mails 
The Postmaster General may impose or remit fines on contractors 
or carriers transporting mail by air on routes extending beyond 
the borders of the United States for— 
(1) unreasonable or unnecessary delay to mail; and 
(2) other delinquencies in the transportation of the mail. 
§ 6305. Airmail Flyer's Medal of Honor 
The President may present, but not in the name of Congress, an 
Airmail Flyer's Medal of Honor, of appropriate design, with accom-
panying ribbon, to any person who, while serving as a pilot in the 
airmail service distinguished himself by heroism or extraordinary 
achievement. 
The President may not award more than one medal 
to any one person, but for each additional act or achievement sufficient 
to justify the award of a medal he may award a bar or other suitable 
device to be worn as he directs. 
If the individual who distinguished 
himself dies before the award is made, the President may present the 
medal, bar, or other device, to such representative of the deceased as 
the President designates. A medal, bar, or other device may not be 
awarded or presented to an individual whose entire service subse-
quent to the time he distinguished himself has not been honorable. 
CHAPTER 99—HIGHWAY POST OFFICES 
Sec. 
6351. Highway post office service. 
6352. Highway post office contracts. 
6353. Renewal of contracts for highway jwst office service. 
6354. Temporary contracts for highway post office service. 
6355. Bonds for highway post office contract. 
§ 6351. Highway post office service 
The Postmaster General may provide highway post office service, 
either by contract or Government-owned motor vehicle, for carrying 
the mail and postal employees on routes between points where, in 
his judgment, conditions justify the operation of that service. The 
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motor vehicles must be especially designed and equipped for the dis-
tribution of mail en route and be constructed, fitted up, maintained, 
and operated as the Postmaster General prescribes. 
§ 6352. Highway post office contracts 
(a) The Postmaster General shall obtain contracts for highway 
post office service in accordance with section 5 of title 41, for terms 
not in excess of six years. 
(b) The Postmaster General in contracts for highway post office 
service may provide for— 
(1) increasing or decreasing the mileage; 
^2^ increasing or decreasing the hours of service required; 
(3) other service changes; 
(4) the readjustment and compensation either upward or 
downward to reflect the service changes and increased or de-
creased costs attributable to changed conditions occurring dur-
ing the contract term over which the Postmaster General or the 
contractor have no control and which could not reasonably have 
been foreseen at the time the original bid was made or the pro-
posal for renewal filed; 
(5) the imposition or remission of fines and penalties by the 
Postmaster General for delinquencies in the performance of the 
contract; and 
(6) other matters deemed appropriate by him. 
(c) Each contract shall provide for its cancellation by the Post-
master General and may provide for an indemnity payment by the 
Postmaster General in the event of such a cancellation. 
§ 6353. Renewal of contracts for highway post office service 
(a) The Postmaster General, by mutual agreement with the holder 
of a contract for highway post omce service and without submitting 
the service for bids, may renew the contract for successive periods of 
not more than six years at the rates of compensation prevailing at the 
end of the preceding contract term. 
(b) The Postmaster General may enter into a contract with the 
subcontractor then performing the service, in the same manner and 
upon the same terms as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section if— 
(1) the holder of the contract has sublet his contract in accord-
ance with its terms and does not indicate in writing to the Post-
master General at least ninety days before the end of the contract 
term that he desires to renew the contract, and 
(2) the subcontractor has performed the service required 
under the contract to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General 
for a period of at least six months. 
§ 6354. Temporary contracts for highway post office service 
Where there is no contractor legally bound or required to perform 
the service desired by the Postmaster General, or when an accepted 
bidder or contractor fails or refuses to perform the service on a route 
according to his accepted proposal or his contract, the Postmaster 
General, without advertising, may contract for the service desired or 
continue the service originally contracted for in such manner and in 
such equipment as he deems to be in the public interest for a term not in 
excess of one year. 
§ 6355. Bonds for highway post office contract 
The Postmaster General may require such bonds as he deems neces-
sary to protect the interests of the Government in the form and amount 
and containing such conditions as he prescribes. 
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CHAPTER 101—TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL OTHER THAN 
BY RAIL, AIR OR HIGHWAY POST OFFICE 
Sec. 
6401. Definitions. 
6402. Authority to contract for mail transportation. 
6403. Mail messenger and contract motor vehicle service. 
6404. Sea post service. 
6405. Duration of contracts. 
6406. Termination of contracts for foreign transportation, 
6407. Extension of contracts. 
6408. Transportation by vessel under noncompetitive contracts. 
6409. Transportation by vessel under informal arrangements. 
6410. Transportation of mail by vessel as freight or express. 
6411. Requirements of contracts made after competitive bidding. 
6412. Advertisements for mail transportation contracts. 
6413. Exceptions from advertisement requirements. 
6414. Procedures after default of bidder or contractor. 
6415. Temporary mail contracts. 
6416. Renewal of contracts. 
6417. Bids for mail contracts. 
6418. Bond of bidder. 
6419. Justification of sureties on bonds of bidders. 
6420. Qualifications of bidder. 
6421. Combinations to prevent bids for carrying the mail. 
6422. Additional compensation for increased travel. 
6423. Readjustment of compensation of contractors and mail messengers. 
6424. Additional compensation for extension of route or additional service. 
6425. Release of contractors. 
6426. Substitutions of sureties. 
6427. Contracts for transmission of mail by mechanical devices. 
6428. Limitation on rate payable for transmission of mail by mechanical devices. 
6429. Transfer of mail contracts. 
04.30. Settlements with subcontractors. 
6431. New contract with subcontractors. 
6432. Lien on compensation of contractor. 
6433. Free transportation of postal oflBcials. 
6434. Liability of contractor for breach. 
6435. Fines on ocean carriers. 
6430. Default of contractor having several routes. 
6437. Unreasonable bids. 
()438. Newspapers out of the malls. 
6439. Initial payment under contract 
6440. Special service. 
§ 6401. Definitions 
As used in this chapter— 
"star route contract" means a contract for the transporta-
tion of mail over a post road other than a railroad and may in-
clude collection and delivery service to patrons of the postal 
service; 
"contract motor vehicle service" means a formal contract 
for a fixed term for service in accordance with section 6403 of 
this title; 
"mail messenger service" means service performed in ac-
cordance with section 6403 of this title under an informal agree-
ment without term. 
§ 6402. Authority to contract for mail transportation 
(a) The Postmaster General may contract for necessary domestic 
or foreign transportation of mail, except that— 
(1) transportation of mail by railroad shall be procured as 
f
)rovided in chapter 95 of this title and otherwise provided by 
aw; 
(2) transportation of mail by air shall be obtained in accord-
ance with chapter 97 of this title; 
(3) highway post office service shall be obtained in accordance 
with chapter 99 of this title; 
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(4) delivery and collection service may not be established or 
extended under a star route contract if a majority of the patrons 
on the route has been served by a rural delivery route for which 
a qualified rural carrier can be obtained; and 
(5) if possible, mail consigned between an airport and a post 
office at which there is Government-owned motor vehicle service, 
shall be transported by Government-owned motor vehicles, when 
the distance is not more than 35 miles. 
(b) Subsection (a) (5) of this section does not prohibit the trans-
portation of mail by helicopter or similar aircraft between airports 
and post offices. 
§ 6403. Mail messenger and contract motor vehicle service 
(a) Subject to subsection (a) (5) of section 6402 of this title, the 
Postmaster General may enter into informal agreements for mail 
messenger service without term or into formal contracts for motor 
vehicle service for the carriage of mail in connection with transporta-
tion service in cases where, by law or the regulations of the Depart-
ment, rail, air, water and other carriers are not required to deliver into 
and take from postal facilities the mails carried by them. The Post-
master General may use such service as transfer service between such 
points as he deems necessary including service within, between and 
among carriers, depots, airports, piers, post offices, branch post offices 
or stations or other postal facilities and over bridges and ferries. 
(b) Postmasters, officers, and employees, may enter into agree-
ments for the performance of mail messenger service when the Post-
master General determines that the performance of the service will 
not interfere with their regular duties or with the operations of the 
postal service. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section 
the total amount payable under an agreement may not exceed $900 in 
any one year. 
(c) Special delivery messengers at post offices of all classes may 
enter into agreements for mail messenger service without regard to 
the amount payable in any one year. 
§ 6404. Sea post service 
The Postmaster General may maintain sea post service on ocean 
vessels conveying mail to and from the United States. 
§ 6405. Duration of contracts 
(a) The Postmaster General may make contracts for the trans-
portation of mail by vessel between the United States and foreign 
ports for terms of not more than two years. When the foreign office is 
not more than 200 miles from the domestic office he may make con-
tracts for domestic and foreign transportation of mail by vessels, 
combined in one route, for terms of not more than four years. He 
may make other contracts for the transportation of mail for four-year 
terms. 
(b) This section does not apply to mail messenger service or to 
contracts made under sections 6408, 6413, 6415, 6427 of this title. 
§ 6406. Termination of contracts for foreign transportation 
Contracts for the transportation of mail by vessel between the 
United States and a foreign port shall be made subject to cancellation 
by the Postmaster General or the Congress. 
§ 6407. Extension of contracts 
(a) The Postmaster General may continue in force beyond its 
express terms any regular contract for the transportation of mail 
until a new contract is made, but not longer than six months. 
(b) This section does not apply to temporary contracts made under 
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§ 6408. Transportation by vessel under noncompetitive con-
tracts 
(a) When the Postmaster General deems it necessary to make a 
new contract for the transportation of mail by vessel on waters, 
or between ports, of the United States he may contract with-
out advertising for terms of not more than four years at a rate of 
compensation not to exceed the average compensation paid under 
the existing contract or under the last preceding contract for the 
transportation of mail on that route. When there has been no prior 
contract for the transportation of mail on a route on waters, or 
between ports, of the United States, the Postmaster General may con-
tract for a term of one year for the transportation of mail on that 
route without advertising, or for terms of not more than four years 
after advertising. 
(b) The Postmaster General may contract for the transportation 
of all classes of mail by vessel of United States registry on the route 
from Seward to points on Kanai Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Alaska 
Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, Umnak Island, and points on 
Bristol Bay, Alaska, and vicinity. 
He may make the contract with-
out advertisement for a term of not more than four years, at an annual 
cost not to exceed $250,000. The Postmaster General shall require 
the contractor to furnish and use in the service a safe and seaworthy 
vessel of sufficient size to provide adequate space for mail, passengers 
and freight. 
§ 6409. Transportation by vessel under informal arrangements 
(a) The Postmaster General without advertising may provide for 
the transportation of mail by vessel between— 
(1) the United States, its possessions, the Territory of Hawaii, 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and a foreign port; 
(2) the United States and its possessions, its Armed Forces 
abroad, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; or 
(3) 
any possession or the Armed Forces of the United States, 
or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other possession 
or Armed Forces of the United States. 
(b) The Postmaster General for transportation obtained under 
this section by a— 
(1) vessel of United States registry, may pay compensation 
not to exceed eighty cents a pound for letters, post cards and 
postal cards, and eight cents a pound for other articles; and 
(2) vessel of foreign registry, may pay compensation not to 
exceed the sea transit rates fixed from time to time by the Uni-
versal Postal Union Convention. 
§ 6410. Transportation of mail by vessel as freight or express 
The Postmaster General may require that mail be transported as 
freight or express when— 
(1) there is no competition on a water route and the rate of 
compensation asked is excessive; or 
(2) no proposal is received. 
A common carrier by water that refuses to transport the mail 
when required to do so under this section shall be fined not more than 
$500 for each day of refusal. 
§ 6411. Requirements of contracts let after competitive bidding 
(a) Formal contracts for transportation of mail which are re-
quired to be made after advertising shall— 
(1) be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder with sufficient 
guarantee for faithful performance in accordance with the terms 
of the advertisement; and 
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(2) require due celerity, certainty, and security in the per-
formance of the service, 
(b) The Postmaster General may disregard the bid of a person 
who willfully or negligently failed to perform a former contract. 
§ 6412. Advertisements for mail transportation contracts 
When advertising is required by law, the Postmaster General shall 
advertise, for a period of not less than 30 days, for bids for a contract 
for transporting the mails, unless he shall publish with the adver-
tisement a finding that the public exigencies surrounding the partic-
ular contract require a shorter period. The advertisement shall be 
conspicuously posted in each post office to be served under the con-
tract. 
§ 6413. Exceptions from advertisement requirements 
Section 6412 does not apply to contracts for the transportation of 
mail— 
(a) by mail messengers under sections 6403 and 6423 of this 
title; 
(b) by highway post office service under sections 6351 to 6355 
of this title; or 
(c) by steamships under sections 6405 and 6408 of this title. 
§ 6414. Procedures after default of bidder or contractor 
(a) If an accepted bidder or contractor for the transportation of 
mail defaults on his bid or contract, the Postmaster General shall con-
tract with the next lowest bidder who will enter into a contract for 
the service in accordance with his bid, unless he considers the bid too 
high. If he considers the bid too high, he may contract with any 
person, giving preference to regular bidders for the service, who will 
enter into a contract to perform the service at a lower price. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall require each person contracting 
under this section to furnish a bond of like tenor, effect, and penalty as 
that required in the advertisement of the route. Contracts made under 
this section shall contain the same terms and provisions as those pre-
scribed for similar service. 
(c) If a satisfactory contract cannot be secured under this section, 
the Postmaster General may procure temporary service in accordance 
with section 6412 or 6415 of this title. 
§ 6415. Temporary mail contracts 
(a) The Postmaster General may make temporary contracts with-
out advertising for the transportation of mail on routes for terms 
of not more than one year, if— 
(1) a new route is established; 
(2) a, new service is required; or 
(3) for any other reason there is no regular contract for service 
on the route. 
(b) Temporary service rendered necessary by reason of the default 
of an accepted bidder or of a contractor may be obtained at a rate 
which the Postmaster General deems reasonable and the cost shall 
be charged to the bidder or contractor. 
§ 6416. Renewal of contracts 
(a) The Postmaster General, by mutual agreement with the holder 
of a star route, contract motor vehicle service or water route contract 
and without advertising may renew the contract for successive terms, 
of not more than four years each, at the rate of compensation prevail-
ing at the end of the preceding contract term. The contractor shall 
give such bond as the Postmaster General requires. 
(b) If a contractor has sublet the service in accordance with 
law and does not indicate in writing to the Postmaster General at 
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least 90 days before the end of the contract term that he desires to 
renew the contract, the Postmaster General may enter into a contract 
with the subcontractor then, and for 6 months prior thereto, perform-
ing the service under the contract to the satisfaction of the Postmaster 
General. 
Contracts made under this subsection— 
(1) shall be upon the terms prevailing at the end of the pre-
ceding contract term; 
(2) may be made without advertising; and 
(3) shall be accompanied by such bond as the Postmaster Gen-
eral requires. 
(c) A contract under this section may be terminated at the end of 
any four-year term at the option of the Postmaster General or of the 
contractor, or at any time by operation of law. 
§ 6417. Bids for mail contracts 
(a) Bids for transportation of mail shall be sealed. The Postmaster 
General shall keep them sealed until the bidding is closed, and then 
they shall be opened and marked in the presence of two or more officers 
or employees of the Department designated by the Postmaster Gen-
eral. A bidder may withdraw his bid at any time up to twenty-
four hours before the time fixed for the opening of bids, by serving 
upon the Postmaster General notice in writing. 
(b) The Postmaster General shall have recorded a true abstract 
of the details of all bids made for carrying the mail. 
He shall pre-
serve the originals of the bids until disposed of as provided by law. 
§ 6418. Bond of bidder 
(a) Every bid for transporting the mail shall be accompanied by 
the bond of the bidder in the sum designated by the Postmaster 
General in the advertisement. 
(b) The bond required by this section shall contain a condition that 
if the bidder, within such time after his bid is accepted as the Post-
master General prescribes, enters into a contract with the United 
States of America with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by 
the Postmaster General to perform the service proposed in his bid, 
and further if he performs the service according to his contract, 
then the said obligation on the bond is void, otherwise it remains in 
full force and obligation in law. 
(c) If a bidder fails to enter into the prescribed contract or if after 
executing a contract fails to perform the service in accordance with 
his contract, he and his sureties are liable for the amount of the bond 
as liquidated damages to be recovered in a civil action. 
(d) The Postmaster General may not consider a bid unless it is 
accompanied by the bond required by this section, and there is affixed 
to it the signed statement of the bidder that he has the pecuniary 
ability to fulfill his obligations, and that the bid is made in good faith 
with the intention to enter into a contract and perform the service if 
the bid is accepted. 
§ 6419. Justification of sureties on bonds of bidders 
(a) The Postmaster General shall direct the manner in which the 
sureties on the bond of a bidder for the transportation of mail are 
approved. 
(b) Before the bond of a bidder is approved the sureties shall 
submit signed statements that they are owners of real estate worth 
in the aggregate a sum double the amount of the bond, over and above 
all debts due and owing by them, and all judgments, mortgages, and 
executions against them, after allowing all exemptions of every char-
acter whatever. Accompanying the statement and as a part thereof, 
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there shall be a series of written interrogatories, prescribed by the 
Postmaster General, and answered by the sureties showing— 
(1) the amount of real estate owned by them; 
(2) a brief description and the probable value thereof; and 
(3) where it is situated, and in what county and State evidence 
of ownership is recorded. 
(c) If a surety knowingly submits a false statement under the 
provisions of this section he shall be punished in accordance with the 
provisions of section 1001 of title 18. 
" stat. 749. 
(d) Subsections (b) and (c) of this section do not apply to cor-
porate sureties qualifying under title 6. 
§ 6420. Qualifications of bidder 
(a) The Postmaster General may not consider the bid of an indi-
vidual for a star route contract unless the bidder is a legal resident 
of the county in which part of the route lies or of an adjoining county. 
He may not consider the bid of a firm, company, or corporation for 
such a contract unless it is actually engaged in business within the 
county in which part of the route lies or m an adjoining county. 
(b) Except as provided in section 6403 of this title, a postmaster 
or employee of the Department may not be concerned in a contract 
for the transportation of mail. 
§ 6421. 
Combinations to prevent bids for carrying the mail 
The Postmaster General may not make a contract for transporta-
tion of mail with a person who— 
(1) enters, or proposes to enter, into a combination to prevent 
the making of a bid for transportation of mail; or 
(2) makes an agreement, or gives or performs, or promises 
to give or perform, any consideration whatever to induce another 
person not to bid for the contract. 
The Postmaster General may annul the contract of any contractor so 
offending. 
For the first offense the person shall be disqualified for 
five years to contract for transporting mail, and for the second 
offense shall be disqualified forever. 
§ 6422. Additional compensation for increased travel 
The Postmaster General may allow additional compensation to a 
star route contractor for necessary increased travel caused by— 
(1) obstruction of roads; 
(2) destruction of bridges; 
(3) discontinuance of ferries; or 
(4) any other cause occurring during the contract term. 
He may not allow additional compensation under this section at a rate 
proportionately greater than the rate established by the contract 
involved. 
§ 6423. Readjustment of compensation of contractors and mail 
messengers 
(a) The Postmaster General with the consent of the contractor may 
readjust the compensation under a star route, motor vehicle service, 
or water route contract for increased or decreased costs occasioned 
by changed conditions occurring during the contract term which could 
not reasonably have been anticipated at the time— 
(1) the original bid was made; or 
(2) the bond for a renewed contract was executed in accord-
ance with section 6416 of this title. 
(b) The Postmaster General may readjust the compensation under 
an agreement for the performance of mail messenger service on account 
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could not reasonably have been anticipated at the time the agreement 
was made. 
§ 6424. Additional compensation for extension of route or 
additional service 
(a) The Postmaster General, in cases where the mail service would 
be improved, may obtain additional service or extend routes under 
contract. Extensions ordered during a contract term may not, in the 
aggregate, increase the one-way length of a route more than fifty 
miles. 
(b) The Postmaster General may not allow additional compensa-
tion under this section at a rate proportionately greater than the rate 
established by the contract involved. 
(c) When additional service is ordered, the Postmaster General 
shall state the sum allowed therefor in the order, and enter it in the 
records of the Department. 
He may not pay compensation for 
additional regular service rendered before he issues the order. 
(d) Subsection (c) of this section does not apply to service author-
ized under sections 6415, and 6422 of this title. 
§ 6425. Release of contractors 
(a) The Postmaster General, in the interest of the postal service, 
may readvertise and make new contracts for the transportation of 
mail in order to release contractors and their sureties when— 
(1) a change is ordered in the service involving a material 
increase or decrease in the amount of service required to such an 
extent as to impose undue hardship on the contractor; 
(2) an abnormal or sustained increase in the quantity of mail 
develops during a contract period or after a bid has been sub-
mitted necessitating larger capacity equipment to maintain the 
service; 
(3) a change in schedule is ordered that will necessitate the 
contractor being away from the initial terminal for an excessively 
longer or shorter period than required in the advertised schedule; 
or 
(4) the contractor complies with subsection (b) of this section 
and it is found, after full investigation, that the compensa-
tion of the contractor is wholly inadequate and that the con-
tinuation of the contract would impose undue hardship upon the 
contractor. 
(b) A contractor who desires to be released from his contract under 
the fourth condition of subsection (a) of this section shall give 90 
days' notice to the Postmaster General and waive any extra pay pro-
vided under his contract or by law as indemnity for cancellation. 
§ 6426. Substitutions of sureties 
The Postmaster General, whenever he deems it consistent with the 
public interest, may accept or require new surety upon a contract 
for the transportation of mail in substitution for and release of an 
existing surety. 
§ 6427. Contracts for transmission of mail by mechanical 
devices 
(a) The Postmaster General may enter into contracts, for terms 
of not more than ten years, for the transmission of mail by pneumatic 
tubes or other mechanical devices. 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section contracts for the 
transmission of mail hj pneumatic tubes or other mechanical devices 
are subject to the provisions of laws relating to the making of con-
tracts for the transportation of mail. Advertisements shall state in 
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form best calculated to invite competitive bidding. The Postmaster 
General may reject any and all bids. A contract may be awarded 
only to the lowest responsible bidder tendering full and sufficient 
guaranties to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General of his ability 
to perform satisfactory service. 
§ 6428. Limitation on rate payable for transmission of mail by 
mechanical devices 
Until December 31,1960, the Postmaster General may not pay a rate 
of more than $15,500 a year for each mile of double line pneumatic-
tube facilities in the city of New York, N. Y. Thereafter the annual 
rate of expenditures per mile may not exceed $12,000. This rate 
includes maintenance expenses but excludes all operating expenses. 
§ 6429. Transfer of mail contracts 
A contractor holding a contract for the transportation of mail 
may not sublet, assign or transfer his contract without the consent in 
writing from the Postmaster General. Whenever the Postmaster 
General determines that a contractor has sublet, assigned or trans-
ferred his contract without consent, he shall consider the contract 
as breached and may again advertise the service as provided by law. 
The contractor and his sureties are liable to the United States for 
damage resulting to the United States from the termination of the 
contract. 
§ 6430. Settlements with subcontractors 
If the holder of a contract for the transportation of mail law-
fully sublets his contract or lawfully employs other persons to per-
form the service covered by the contract or any part thereof, he shall 
file in the Department a copy of his contract with those persons. 
Upon receipt of the contract, the Postmaster General shall withhold 
the amount fixed therein as compensation to the subcontractor from 
the amount due to the original contractor, and pay the subcontractor 
imder the rules and regulations governing payments made to original 
contractors. Upon satisfactory evidence that the original contractor 
has paid off and discharged the amount due under his contract to the 
subcontractor, the Postmaster General shall settle with the original 
contractor. 
§ 6431. New contract with subcontractors 
If a contractor or subcontractor sublets his contract for the 
transportation of the mail for a sum less than that for which he 
contracted to perform the service, the Postmaster General, whenever 
he deems it for the good of the service, may cancel the contract. 
The Postmaster General may enter into a contract with the last 
subcontractor to perform the service under the terms of his subcon-
tract. The original contractor may not be released from his contract 
until a good and sufficient bond has been made by the new contractor 
and accepted by the Postmaster General. When a contract is can-
celled under this section the contractor is not entitled to indemnity 
therefor. 
§ 6432. Lien on compensation of contractor 
(a) A person who— 
(1) performs service for a contractor or subcontractor in the 
transportation of mail; 
(2) files his contract for service with the Department; and 
(3) files satisfactory evidence of performance with the Depart-
ment 
shall have a lien on money due the contractor or subcontractor for 
the service. 
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(b) The Postmaster General may pay the person establishing a 
lien under subsection (a) of this section the sum due him, when the 
contractor or subcontractor fails to pay the person the amount of his 
lien within two months after the expiration of the month in which the 
service was performed. He shall charge the amount so paid to the 
contract. The payments may not exceed the annual rate of pay of 
the contractor or subcontractor. 
§ 6433. Free transportation of postal officials 
Every person engaged in the transportation of mail by vessel and, 
unless otherwise provided in the contract, every other contractor 
engaged in the transportation of mail shall carry on any vessel or 
vehicle he operates upon exhibiting their credentials and without 
extra charge therefor— 
(1) persons in charge of the mails when on duty and traveling 
to and from duty, and 
(2) accredited agents and officers, including postal inspec-
tors, of the Department while traveling on official business. 
§ 6434. Liability of contractor for breach 
(a) The Postmaster General may make deductions from the com-
pensation of contractors for failure to perform service according to 
contracts for the transportation of the mail, and he may impose fines 
upon them for other delinquencies. He may deduct the price of the 
trip in all cases where the trip is not performed and not exceeding three 
times the price if the failure is occasioned by the fault of the con-
tractor or carrier. The Postmaster General may change or remit 
deductions or fines. 
(b) Contractors are also answerable in damages to the United 
States for the proper care and transportation of the mail. They are 
accountable to the United States for loss of or damage to the 
mail or any part of it due to the failure of any of the contractor's 
officers, agents, or employees to exercise due care in the custody, 
handling, or transportation thereof. 
§ 6435. Fines on ocean carriers 
The Postmaster General may impose or remit fines on carriers trans-
porting mail by vessel on routes extending beyond the borders cf 
the United States for— 
(1) unreasonable or unnecessary delay to the mail; and 
(2) other delinquencies in the transportation of the mail. 
§ 6436. Default of contractor having several routes 
Where a person having contracts for the transportation of mail 
upon more than one route fails to perform the service according 
to the contract on any of the routes, the Postmaster General shall 
withhold payments on all contracts with him until the failure has 
been removed and all penalties therefor fully satisfied. 
§ 6437. Unreasonable bids 
When the Postmaster General believes that the bids for the per-
formance of star route service are unreasonable, or that there is a 
combination of bidders to fix the rate for star route service, he may 
use such means or methods to provide the desired service as he deems 
expedient, without reference to laws respecting the employment of 
personal service or the procurement of conveyances, materials, or 
supplies. He may pay the cost thereof from any appropriation avail-
able for the transportation of mail. 
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§ 6438. 
Newspapers out of the mail 
Mail carriers and contractors for the transportation of mail may 
convey, out of the mail, newspapers for sale or distribution to sub-
scribers. 
§ 6439. Initial payment under contract 
The Postmaster General may not make payments to a person whose 
bid for a contract for the transportation of mail is accepted until the 
bidder has executed the contract according to law and the regulations 
of the Department. 
§ 6440. Special service 
The Postmaster General may provide for the transportation of 
mail to supply a post office that is not on an established route. 
He 
may not pay compensation, under the contract, in excess of two-
thirds of the salary of the postmaster at such an office. 
SEC. 2. If a part of title 39, United States Code, as enacted by 
s^^^"^^ ^^«"««-
section 1 of this Act, is held invalid the remainder of the title is not 
affected thereby. 
SEC. 3. Orders, rules and regulations in effect under provisions 
of law superseded or amended by this Act shall, to the extent they etc! 
would have been authorized under this Act, remain in force and effect 
as the regulations and orders under the provisions of this Act and 
shall be administered and enforced under this Act as nearly as may 
be until specifically repealed, amended or revised. 
SEC. 4. (a) The benefits granted to postal employees by sections cert°a"nTmpioyei 
403, 504 and 808 of the Act of June 10, 1955 (69 Stat. 88), and by benefits, 
sections 402, 406, and 407 (a) of the Act of May 27, 1958 (72 Stat. 
146, 147), are continued to the same effect as though the sections had 
remained in force and effect. 
(b) Postal employees on the rolls of the Post Office Department on 
the date of the enactment of this Act, who are entitled to the benefits 
of section 2 of the Act of May 3,1950 (64 Stat. 102), and to the benefits 
of sections 1 and 3 of the Act of May 29, 1958 (72 Stat. 150), which 
are repealed by section 12 of this Act, shall retain the benefits to the 
same extent as though those sections had remained in force and effect. 
SEC. 5. Whenever reference is made in another law to a law or 
part of law which is repealed by section 12 of this Act, the refer-
ence shall be considered to mean the appropriate section of title 39, 
United States Code, as codified by section 1 of this Act. 
SEC. 6. An inference of a legislative construction is not to be drawn 
Caveat. 
by reason of the chapter in title 39, United States Code, as set out in 
section 1 of this Act, in which a section is placed nor by reason of the 
caption or catch line. 
AMENDMENTS OF TITLE 18 
SEC. 7. Chapter 83 of Title 18, United States Code, is amended by ^^^ "^c 
adding the following new sections: 
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§ 1733. Affidavits relating to second class mail 
"(a) Whoever, being a publisher or news agent or employee, fails 
or refuses to make the affidavit when required under section 4368 of 
title 39, and thereafter tenders for mailing any second class mail with-
out having first made the affidavit shall be fined not more than $1,000 
for each refusal. 
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"(b) Whoever knowingly mails any second class mail without the 
payment of postage, or being a postmaster or postal official knowingly 
permits any second class mail to be mailed without prepayment of 
postage, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more 
than one year, or both. 
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§ 1734. Editorials and other matter as 'advertisements' 
"Whoever, being an editor or publisher, prints in a publication 
entered as second class mail, editorial or other reading matter for 
which he has been paid or promised a valuable consideration, without 
plainly marking the same 'advertisement' shall be fined not more than 
$500." 
SEC. 8. The analysis of chapter 83, preceding § 1691 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by adding the following items: 
"1733. Affidavits relating to second class mail. 
"1734. Editorials and other matter as 'advertisements'." 
AMENDMENTS OF TITLE 28 
SEC. 9. Title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding the 
following new chapter: 
"CHAPTER 173.—ATTACHMENT IN POSTAL SUITS 
"Sec. 
"2710. Right of attachment. 
"2711. Application for warrant. 
"2712. Issue of warrant. 
"2713. Trial of ownership of property. 
"2714. Investment of proceeds of attached property. 
"2715. Publication. 
"2716. Personal notice. 
"2717. Discharge. 
"2718. Interest on balances due department. 
«§ 2710. Right of attachment 
"(a) Where debts are due from a defaulting or delinquent post-
master, contractor, or other officer, agent or employee of the Post 
Office Department, a warrant of attachment may issue against all 
property and legal and equitable rights belonging to him, and his 
sureties, or either of them, where he— 
"(1) is a nonresident of the district where he was appointed, 
or has departed from that district for the purpose of permanently 
residing outside thereof, or of avoiding the service of civil process; 
and 
"(2) has conveyed away, or is about to convey away any of 
his property, or has removed or is about to remove the same from 
the district wherein it is situated, with intent to defraud the 
United States. 
"(b) When the property has been removed, the marshal of the 
district into which it has been removed, upon receipt of certified copies 
of the warrant, may seize the property and convey it to a convenient 
place within the jurisdiction of the court which issued the warrant. 
Alias warrants may be issued upon due application. The warrant 
first issued remains valid until the return day thereof. 
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"§ 2711. Application for warrant 
"A United States attorney or assistant United States attorney or 
a person authorized by the Attorney General— 
"(1) upon his own affidavit or that of another credible person, 
stating the existence of either of the grounds of attachments 
enumerated in section 2710 of this title and 
"(2) upon production of legal evidence of the debt 
may apply for a warrant of attachment to a judge, or, in his absence, 
to the clerk of any court of the United States having original juris-
diction of the cause of action. 
"§ 2712. Issue of warrant 
"Upon an order of a judge of a court, or, in his absence and upon the 
clerk^ own initiative, the clerk shall issue a warrant for the attach-
ment of the property belonging to the person specified in the affidavit. 
The marshal shall execute the warrant forthwith and take the property 
attached, if personal, in his custody, subject to the interlocutory or 
final orders of the court. 
"§ 2713. Trial of ownership of property 
"Not later than twenty days before the return day of a warrant 
issued under section 2712 of this title, the party whose property is 
attached, on notice to the United States Attorney, may file a plea in 
abatement, denying the allegations of the affidavit, or denying owner-
ship in the defendant of the property attached. The court, upon 
application of either party, shall order a trial by jury of the issues. 
Where the parties, by consent, waive a trial by ]ury, the court shall 
decide the issues. A party claiming ownership of the property at-
tached and seeking its return is limited to the remedy afforded by 
this section, but his right to an action of trespass, or other action for 
damages, is not impaired. 
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§ 2714. Investment of proceeds of attached property 
"When the property attached is sold on an interlocutory order or 
is producing revenue, the money arising from the sale or revenue shall 
be invested, under the order of the court, in securities of the United 
States. The accretions therefrom are subject to the order of the court. 
"§ 2715. Publication 
"The marshal shall cause publication of an executed warrant of 
attachment— 
"(1) for two months in case of an absconding debtor, and 
" (2) for four months in case of a nonresident debtor 
in a newspaper published in the district where the property is situated 
pursuant to the details of the order under which the warrant is issued. 
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§ 2716. Personal notice 
"After the first publication of the notice of attachment, a person 
indebted to, or having possession of property of a defendant and hav-
ing knowledge of the notice, shall answer for the amount of his debt 
or the value of the property. Any disposal or attempted disposal of 
the property, to the injury of the United States, is unlawful. When 
the person indebted to, or having possession of the property of a 
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defendant, is known to the United States attorney or marshal, the 
officer shall cause a personal notice of the attachment to be served upon 
him, but the lack of the notice does not invalidate the attachment. 
«§ 2717. Discharge 
"The court, or a judge thereof, upon— 
"(1) application of the party when property has been attached 
and 
"(2) execution to the United States of a penal bond, approved 
by a judge, in double the value of the property attached and con-
ditioned upon the return of the property or the payment of any 
judgment rendered by the court 
may discharge the warrant of attachment as to the property of the 
applicant. 
'*§ 2718. Interest on balances due department 
"In suits for balances due the Post Office Department may recover 
interest at the rate of 6 per centum per year from the time of default," 
SEC. 10. The analysis of part VI of title 28 United States Code 
immediately preceding chapter 151 is amended by adding the 
following: 
"173. Attachment in postal suits 
Sec. 2710." 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 11. This Act takes effect on September 1,1960. Laws enacted 
after January 7, 1959, that are inconsistent with this Act shall 
supersede it to the extent of the inconsistency. 
KEPEALS 
68 Stat. 1014. 
SEC. 12. (a) Section 10 of title 13, United States Code, is hereby 
repealed. 
(b) Subsection (c) of section 1717, title 18, United States Code is 
hereby repealed. 
(c) The sections or j)arts thereof of the Kevised Statutes or Statutes 
at Large enumerated in the following schedule are hereby repealed. 
Rights or liabilities now existing under the sections or parts thereof 
repealed are not affected by this repeal: 
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1 Only the first proviso and the first sentence of the second proviso in section 3 on page 201. 
' Only the last sentence of section 4 on page 202. 
» Only that part preceding the proviso, reading as follows: "• • * and that thenceforth all official corre-
spondence, of whatever nature, and other mailable matter sent from or addressed to any officer of the 
government or person now authorized to frank such matter, shall be chargeable with the same rates of 
postage as may be lawfully imposed upon like matter sent by or addressed to other persons: • • *". 
* The proviso in section 4 on page 642. 
< Only the last proviso on page 657. 
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[74 S T AT. 
Statutes at Large 
Date 
1874—June 23 
Mar. 2 4 -
lg75_Feb. 18 
Mar. 3 
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1876-July 12 
Aug. 11 
1877—Feb. 27 
Mar. 3 
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- 
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June 20 
1879—Feb. 4 
Feb 21 
Chapter 
456 
Res. 6 
80 
128 
130 
179 
260 
69 
103 
110 
107 
259 
359 
45 
95 
180 
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6 Only that part of the first proviso In the appropriation Item "For pay of letter carriers" preceding the 
last semicolon before the words "and for this purpose", on page 231. 
' Only the proviso under the appropriation Item "For stamped envelopes and wrappers". 
8 Only that part of section 12 which amends sections 245,246,251, and 253 of the Act of June 8,1872, ch. 335, 
17 Stat. 313,314. 
« Only the last paragraph on page 319. 
i" Only the first paragraph on page 320. 
'1 Only the clause after the semicolon in the appropriation Item "For pay of postmasters" under the head-
ing "Ofiice of the First Assistant Postmaster General" readhig as follows: "* * * and the salary of the post-
master of the city of New York is hereby fixed at eight thousand dollars per annum.", on page 340. 
1' Only the fourth paragraph on page 377. 
1
8 Only that part of the Act which amends subsections 246 and 261 of section 12 of the Act of Jime 23,1874 
(ch. 456,18 Stat. 235), through the period in line 48 on page 130. 
1
8 Only that part contained In the second complete paragraph on page 250. 
" Only the proviso in the last paragraph under the heading "Ofiice of the Postmaster General" on page 383. 
1
8 Only the first proviso under the heading "Office of the Postmaster General" on page 140. 
1
9 The third proviso under the heading "Office of the Postmaster General". 
i»a The second paragraph under heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
2
1 Only that part of the third paragraph which precedes the semicolon under the heading "Office of the 
First Assistant Postmaster General" on page 141. 
2
1 Only the first and second provisos in the appropriation Item "For transportation by railroad" under 
the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General" on page 142. 
22 Only the first, second, and third provisos of section 2 on page 143. 
23 Only the fourth paragraph on page 240. 
, 
^ 
, 
, 
, 
24 Only the first proviso under the heading "Office of the Postmaster General" and only the second proviso 
under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General" on page 356. 
25 Only the proviso In the fifth paragraph under the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster 
General" on page 357. 
74 S T A T . ] 
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Date 
1879—Mar. 
3 
1880—Apr. 
7 
1881—Mar. 
1 
1882—Feb. 
25 
Mar. 17 
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31 
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3 
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3 
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H Only the proviso in section 2 on page 72. 
•' Only the last two clauses following the first semicolon in the first paragraph under the heading " OfBce 
of the Postmaster General". 
•• Only the second sentence of the first paragraph on page 179. 
»
9 Only the clause after the semicolon in the second sentence of the first paragraph under the heading 
"Office of the Postmaster General", reading as follows: "and hereafter the superintendent of railway mall 
service and the chief of post office inspectors shall be paid their actual expenses while traveling on the 
business of the department." 
3
3 The first, second, third, fourth and fifth provisos in the third paragraph under the heading "Office 
of the Second Assistant Postmaster General". 
" Only the clause following the semicolon in the paragraph reading as follows: "and the Postmaster 
General is authorized to designate postmasters at Presidential post offices as disbursing officers for the 
payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of the postal service concerned in the transportation 
of malls or in their distribution in transit, and for such other payments as they are now authorized to make 
from postal revenues" in the fourth complete paragraph on page 64. 
•5 Only the clause reading as follows: "and hereafter the annual report of the Postmaster General shall not 
be published in the said Official Postal Guide" in the second complete paragraph on page 263. 
3
« All of that portion of the first paragraph under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster 
General" following the first semicolon on page 465. 
" All of the second sentence of section 2 on page 527. 
" All of the language after the semicolon in the last paragraph under the heading " Office of the First Assist-
ant Postmaster General." 
•0 All but the last sentence of section 3 on page 168. 
<
• All of the second sentence in the second paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant 
Postmaster General". 
<
> All of the second sentence of the third full paragraph on page 386. 
« The second sentence of the fourth complete paragraph under the heading " Office of the Second Assistant 
Postmaster General" on page 386 of volume 23. 
M Only the second sentence of the first paragraph under the heading " Office of the Third Assistant Post-
master General". 
712 
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[74 S T AT, 
Date 
1885—Mar. 3 
1886—June 29 
1887—Jan. 3 
Mar. 3 
1888—Jan. 20 
Mar. 26 
May 9 
May 24 
July 24 
Oct. 1 
1889—Jan. 30 
Mar. 2 
1890—Apr. 16.. 
May 21 
Sept. 19 
Oct. 1 
Dec. 15 
1891—Mar. 3 
1892—July 13 
1893—Jan. 23..* 
Mar. 3 
Dec. 21 
Statutes at Large 
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569 
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346 
388 
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" Only the third sentence of the first paragraph under the heading "OflSce of the Third Assistant Post-
mfistfir GpnGfftl" 
« The second complete paragraph under the heading " OflSce of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
" The proviso In the 8th paragiaph under the heading " Office of the First Assistant Postmaster Oeneral". 
«• The sixth paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster Oeneral". 
M The last paragraph under the heading " Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
" That portion which precedes the last semicolon, ana the proviso in said chapter. 
M The material unaer the heading "Office ot the First Assistant Postmaster General" beginnhig after the 
semicolon in the secona paragraph and ending at the beginning of the first complete paragraph on page 844. 
" The proviso to the fifth complete paragraph on said page. 
*
« The last paragraph of section 1. 
•
> The last sentence of the penultimate paragraph under the headhig "Office of the First Assistant Post-
u The three provisos hi the third paragraph under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
« Only that part of section 6 preceding the last comma therein. 
" Only the proviso under the headhig "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General". 
74 S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 86-682-SEPT. 2, 1960 
713 
Statutes at Large 
Date 
1894—Jan. 27 
July 16 
Aug. 18 
1896—Jan. 12 
Feb. 28 
Mar. 2.. 
1896—May 28 
June 8 
June 9 
June 11 
1897—Feb. 20 
Feb. 27 
Mar. 3 
1898—Mar. 15 
May 19 
June 13 
Chapter 
21 
137 
301 
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140 
177 
191 
252 
370 
386 
424 
268 
340 
385 
68 
347 
446 
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" Only that part of section 1 following tbe words "and the same are hereby repealed", which appear in the 
sixth line on said page. 
" The first two provisos under the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General". 
" That part of section 4 which precedes the proviso. 
" Only the second full paragraph on said page. 
'• The first proviso under the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General". 
•• That part of the last sentence of the penultimate paragraph under the heading "Post Office Depart-
ment", which precedes the semicolon. 
•
< The last sentence in the antepenultimate paragraph under the heading "Post Office Department". 
M The first three provisos under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General". 
•
» The second proviso under the heading "International Bureau of American Republics". 
•• The third and fourth paragraphs on said page. 
" Only the proviso in the second paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
»»The second proviso in the third paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
1
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Postmaster General" which follows the words "are entered into". 
>
•
• The first two provisos under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
M
l The third proviso under the heading " Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
714 
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[74 S T A T . 
Statutes at Large 
Date 
1899—Mar. 1 
Mar. 2 
1900—Feb. 7 
June 2 
June 6 
1901—Jan. 22 
Mar. 3 
1902—Apr. 21 
Chapter 
327 
362 
11 
613 
801 
106 
851 
563 
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1 
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1 
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720, 724, 726 
238 
54 
175 
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635 
603 
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201, 209, 210 
209 
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803 
362 
107 Only the second proviso on said page. 
108 The proviso in the fourth complete paragraph on said page. 
Ill The two provisos under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
'u The proviso in the first paragraph under the heading "Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
1" Only the last sentence in Section 2. 
ii< Only the last paragraph of said section. 
m Only the first sentence. 
1" Only that portion which follows the words "is hereby repealed". 
i» The first proviso imder "Free-Delivery Service". 
I
M The proviso in the fourth complete paragraph on said page. 
1
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General". 
i
M The first proviso under the heading "Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General". 
w Only the second sentence of said section. 
iw The proviso in the first complete paragraph on said page. 
"«The proviso in the fifth complete paragraph on said page. 
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M The first proviso on said page. 
i»« The last paragraph of section 1 under the heading "Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General". 
18' That part of the proviso under the heading "Rural Free Delivery Service" contained on said page. 
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i« The first proviso under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
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Date 
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1903—Mar. 3 
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"»The first proviso under the heading "Salary and Allowance Division". 
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i«i The first proviso under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General". 
"> The first and second provisos on said page. 
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i«8 The fourth proviso under the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General". 
"»The proviso In the third paragraph under the subheading "Railway Mall Service", 
iw The proviso In the second complete paragraph on said page. 
m The provisos In the second paragraph under the heading "Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster 
General", 
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n« The fourth paragraph under the subheading "Rural Free Delivery Service". 
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' " Only the last sentence of section 5. 
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••• Only the third paragraph under the subheading "Railway Mall Service". 
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»'»The proviso in the third complete paragraph on said page. 
1" The last sentence in the last paragraph of section 1. 
•to The first proviso in the first paragraph under the subheading "Salaries of Post-Office Inspectors". 
>•' The provisos in the second paragraph under the subheading "Salaries of Post-Office Inspectors". 
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[74 S T A T . 
Date 
190g_june 26 
1907—Mar. 2 
1908—May 27 
Statutes at Large 
Chapter 
3546 
2613 
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»'« The second sentence of the first complete paragraph on said page. 
»' The first proviso on said page. 
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'lo The fourth paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
»" The fifth paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
»i» The sixth paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
«» The seventh paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
«»The second complete paragraph on said page. 
»i« The third complete paragraph on said page. 
«8 The second sentence of the fifth complete paragraph on said page. 
«i8 The first two provisos on said page. 
«»The proviso in the third complete paragraph on said page. 
Ml The fourth complete paragraph on said page. 
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«8 The provisos in the fifth paragraph under the heading "Office of the Postmaster-General". 
B8 The second paragraph under the heading "Office of tne First Assistant Postmaster-General". 
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l The second sentence of the paragraph beginning on page 412 and ending on page 413. 
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4 The proviso In the sixth paragraph under the subheading "Railway Mall Service". 
»» The seventh paragraph under the subheading "Railway Mail Service". 
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Date 
1908—May 27 
1909—Feb. 23 
Mar. 1 
1910—May 12 
May 23 
Jiinfi ?4 
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' " That portion under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General" which amends 
R. S. Sees. 3646 and 3647. 
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•w The second paragraph on said page. 
*» The provisos in the second paragraph under the subheading "For salaries of post-office inspectors". 
"• The proviso beginning on page 359 and ending on page 360. 
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master General". 
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"a The proviso in the fourth paragraph on page 1332. 
vt Only that part of the proviso in the sixth paragraph on page 1332 preceding the semicolon. 
"• The proviso in the paragraph which begins on page 1332 and ends on page 1333. 
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[74 S T AT 
Statutes at Large 
Date 
1911—Mar. 4 
1912—Aug. 23 
Aug. 24 
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241 
271 
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365 
389 
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«»That portion which amends section 233 of the Postal Laws and Regulations. 
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IK The first two provisos in the paragraph beginning on page 549 and ending on page 650. 
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•i» The first paragraph of section 8. 
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•I' The twenty-third paragraph of section 8. 
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•i» The twenty-fifth paragraph of section 8. 
no The twenty-seventh paragraph of section 8. 
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Date 
1912—Aug. 24 
1913—Mar. 4 
1914—Jan. 21 
Feb. 6 
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Mar. 9 
June 30 
July 16 
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in the last line thereof reading "$261,400". 
332 The proviso in the first paragraph under the heading "Office of the Fh-st Assistant Postmaster 
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' " The fourth proviso on said page. 
"8 That part of the fourth complete paragraph on page 301 which precedes the words "and the Postmaster 
General". 
"0 That part of the fourth complete paragraph on page 301 beginning with "and the Postmaster General" 
continuing to but not including the last sentence. 
>*" The last sentence of the sixth complete paragraph on page 301. 
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3« The second proviso in the sixth complete paragraph on page 304. 
'•• The last paragraph on page 304. 
»« The first proviso on page 438. 
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«» The last two provisos in said resolution. 
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851. That portion of section 4 which precedes the comma in line 16 on page 161. 
362. The proviso in the section. 
«»The provisos in the fifth paragraph under the headmg "Office of the Postmaster General" except the 
figure in the last line reading "$262,860". 
'M The first sentence of the fourth paragraph on page 413. 
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' « The proviso in the first paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Postmaster Gen-
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[74 S T A T , 
Statutes at Large 
Date 
1916—July 28 
1917—Mar. 2 
Mar. 3 
Chapter 
261 
145 
162 
163 
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'58 The second and third provisos In the first complete paragraph on page 419. 
"• The second proviso In the fourth complete paragraph on page 419. 
>'i That portion of the second paragraph under the heading "Railway Mail Service" which precedes 
the first semicolon. 
»'»The provisos In the paragraph beginning on page 419 and ending on page 420. 
»'< The proviso In the paragraph beginning on page 420 and ending on page 421. 
•'5 The second proviso in the first complete paragraph on page 423. 
"• The second, third and fourth complete paragraphs and that portion of the fifth complete paragraph 
through the words "the standards herein prescribed" in line 32, page 423. 
»" The second proviso In the fifth complete paragraph on page 423. 
"8 The third proviso in the fifth complete paragraph on page 423. 
"» The fourth proviso In the fifth complete paragraph on page 423. 
•80 The fifth proviso in the fifth complete paragraph on page 423. 
'81 That portion of the paragraph which begins on page 423 and ends on page 424 through the first proviso. 
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'83 All material after the word "repealed" in the seventh line of section 2 to the end of section 2. 
'88a All of section 5 except the seventh complete paragraph on page 428, and the third and eighth complete 
paragraphs on page 430 of Volume 39 of the United States Statutes at Large. 
'8* That portion of the fourth sentence of section 36 which reads "and the franking privilege granted 
Members of Congress". 
'85 The provisos in the fourth paragraph under the heading "Office of the Postmaster General" except the 
figures in the last line which read "$262,860". 
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7 That part of the proviso In the seventh complete paragraph on page 1062 which precedes the semicolon. 
'88 The eighth complete paragraph on page 1062. 
"• The ninth and twelfth complete paragraphs on page 1062. 
"o The proviso which constitutes the sixth paragraph on page 1063. 
'»! Only that part of the proviso In the eighth paragraph on page 1063. 
'M The first proviso on page 1065 preceding the semicolon. 
»
M The second proviso on page 1065. 
'M The third proviso on page 1065. 
'M That portion of the fourth proviso on page 1065 which precedes the first comma. 
"• The first and second provisos in the first complete paragraph on page 1066. 
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«3 The provisos in the third paragraph under the heading "OflBce of the Postmaster General", except the 
figures "$350,000" in the last line. 
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««The second proviso in the third paragraph under the heading "OflSce of the Second Assistant Post-
master General" and that part of the last sentence as precedes the proviso therein. 
*" The last two provisos in the paragraph beginning on page 748 and ending on page 749. 
«» The proviso in the second complete paragraph on page 751. 
*» The last two provisos in the third complete paragraph on page 751. 
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«« That portion of section 1401 following the words "July 1, 1919" up to but excluding the proviso. 
"' The first two provisos in section 1, excluding the 
figure 
"$360,000". 
«
> The first two provisos under the heading "Ofiace of the First Assistant Postmaster General". 
"• The second proviso on page 1192. 
«' The fourth proviso on page 1192. 
«
> The first proviso on page 1193. 
«« The third proviso on page 1193. 
«" The first proviso on page 1195. 
««The proviso in the first complete paragraph on page 1198. 
«8 The first proviso In the paragraph beginning on page 1197 and ending on page 1198. 
«« That part of the second complete paragraph on page 1198 through the words "as the Postmaster Gen-
eral may prescribe". 
«" All but the last sentence of section 2. 
«• The first sentence and that part of the second sentence which precedes the semicolon in the paragraph 
beglnnhig on page 1252 and ending on page 1253. 
"«The provisos in the third paragraph under the heading "Office of the Postmaster General", but exclud-
ing the 
figure 
"$363,500". 
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w The proviso and the last two sentences In the first paragraph under the heading "Office of the Fhrst 
Assistant Postmaster General". 
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"• The first proviso In the eighth complete paragrapn on page 678. 
<
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? The second proviso in the third paragraph under the beading "Office of 
the Second Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
Ill The first proviso on page 680. 
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"1 The proviso in the sixth paragraph under the heading "Ofllce of the Third Assistant Postmaster 
General". 
<" The proviso in the last complete paragraph on page 682. 
*** The third pai*agraph under the heading "Government Printing Office". 
«» The first six paragraphs of Chapter 254. 
"• The paragraph beginning on page 1045 and the first three complete paragraphs on page 1046. 
<« Beginning with the fourth complete paragraph on page 1046 and extending to the first complete para-
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"8 The first two complete paragraphs on page 1047. 
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«o The paragraph beghining on page 1052 and endhig on page 1053 and the first complete paragraph on 
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"1 The second complete paragraph on page 1053. 
<" That portion of the third complete paragraph on page 1053 through the words "service is performed". 
<" The fourth complete paragraph on page 1053. 
•'< The sixth complete paragraph on page 1053. 
"»The proviso and the remainder of the first paragraph under the heading "Ofllce of the First Assistant 
Postmaster General". 
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*" The paragraph beginning on page 1151 and ending on page 1152. 
«» The second proviso in the third paragraph under the heading "Office of the Second Assistant Post 
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<«' The proviso in the first paragraph under the subheading " Office of Chief Inspector". 
«' The provisos in the penultimate paragraph under the heading "Office of the First Assistant Post-
master General". 
«
M The first proviso under the subheading "Office of Chief Inspector". 
"• That portion of Chapter 237 which precedes the first proviso. 
48' The provisos in chapter 237. 
*
M The first proviso under the subheading "Office of Chief Inspector" on page 784. 
«•• The second proviso In the third paragraph on page 786. 
««The first paragraph of section 207 (b). 
«" All but the proviso in section 207 (c). 
«' All but the last sentence of section 217. 
«
M The first proviso under the subheading "Office of Chief Inspector". 
Mi The first proviso under the subheading " Office of Chief Inspector". 
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Feb. 28 
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May 23 
June 27 
June 30 
1931—Jan. 13 
Jan, 31 
Jan. 31 
Feb. 14 
Feb. 17 
Mar. 2 
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July 21 
1933—Feb. 16 
Mar. 3 
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1934—May 4 
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June 11 
June 12 
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language of section 207 of the Act of February 28,1926, except the paragraph commencing on page 942 and 
ending on page 943. 
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331 
481 
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832 
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w The first proviso under the heading "Public Buildings, Maintenance and Operation". 
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June 11 
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1944—Feb. 25 
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«' Only subsec. (b) of sec. 206. 
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Approved September 2, 1960. 
Public Law 86-683 
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JOINT RESOLUTION 
September 2, 1960 
[s. J. Res. 68] 
Providing for the establishment of the New Jersey Tercentenary Celebration 
Commission to formulate and implement plans to commemorate the three 
hundredth anniversary of the State of New Jersey, and for other purposes. 
Whereas the year 1964 will mark the tercentenary of the patent con-
veying all the lands between the Connecticut River and the east side 
of the Delaware River from Charles I I to James, Duke of York; 
and