Opinion ID: 2481
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Heading: Postal Regulations

Text: According to postal regulations, a CPU must not be located in, or directly connected to, a room where intoxicating beverages are sold for consumption on the premises. Standard Operating Procedures for Contract Postal Units. Beyond that, instruction is provided by the Contract Postal Unit Operations Guide, a training and operations manual for proprietors of CPUs: The appearance of your [CPU] reflects not only on you as a businessperson, but also on the Postal Service. Your unit should be organized and clean, conveying a professional image to your customers. It is very important to the success of your unit that our customers can recognize you as an official United States Post Office contract unit. The Postal Service has dedicated exterior and interior signage that will help you establish this identity. CPUs are regulated by these few guidelines, which are mainly words of encouragement. Classified post offices, on the other hand, are governed by exacting regulations. Among them are limitations on the presence of religious displays, messages and symbols. For example, the Postal Operations Manual (POM) provides that [e]xcept for official postal and other governmental notices and announcements, no handbills, flyers, pamphlets, signs, posters, placards, or other literature may be deposited on the grounds, walks, driveways, parking and maneuvering areas; exteriors of buildings and other structures; or on the floors, walks, stairs, racks, counters, desks, writing tables, window ledges, or furnishings in interior public areas on postal premises [of classified post offices]. POM § 124.55. [6] Bulletin boards and other posting space in Post Office lobbies and other public access areas may not be used for posting or display of ... [r]eligious symbols.... Id. Seasonal holiday displays are tightly regulated (as set out in the margin [7] ). No such regulations govern CPUs.