NOTE

This Committee Print No. 105-E of title 39, United States Code, relates to the United States Postal Service and includes amendments made to that title through the One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session.

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203. Postmaster General; Deputy Postmaster General.

204. Assistant Postmasters General; General Counsel; Judicial Officer.

205. Procedures of the Board of Governors.

206. Advisory Council.

207. Seal.

208. Reservation of powers.

CHAPTER 4-GENERAL AUTHORITY

401. General powers of the Postal Service.

402. Delegation of authority.

403. General duties.

404. Specific powers.

405. Printing of illustrations of United States postage stamps.

406. Postal services at Armed Forces installations.

407. International postal arrangements.

408. International money-order exchanges.

409. Suits by and against the Postal Service.

410. Application of other laws.

411. Cooperation with other Government agencies.

412. Nondisclosure of lists of names and addresses.

413. Postal services at diplomatic posts.

CHAPTER 6-PRIVATE CARRIAGE OF LETTERS

601. Letters carried out of the mail.

602. Foreign letters out of the mails.

603. Searches authorized.

604. Seizing and detaining letters.

605. Searching vessels for letters.

606. Disposition of seized mail.

PART II-PERSONNEL

CHAPTER 10-EMPLOYMENT WITHIN THE POSTAL SERVICE

1001. Appointment and status.

1002. Political recommendations.

1003. Employment policy.

1004. Supervisory and other managerial organizations.

1005. Applicability of laws relating to Federal employees.

1006. Right of transfer.

1007. Seniority for employees in rural service.

1008. Temporary employees or carriers.

*Included for the convenience of the reader and is not part of United States Code.

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1009. Personnel not to receive fees.

1010. Administration of oaths related to postal inspection matters.

1011. Oath of office.

2002. Capital of the Postal Service.

2003. The Postal Service Fund.

[2004. Repealed.]

2005. Obligations.

2006. Relationship between the Treasury and the Postal Service.

2007. Public debt character of the obligations of the Postal Service.

2008. Audit and expenditures.

2009. Annual budget.

2009a. Budgetary treatment of the Postal Service Fund.

2010. Restrictions on agreements.

CHAPTER 22—CONVICT LABOR

2201. No postal equipment or supplies manufactured by convict labor.

CHAPTER 24-APPROPRIATIONS AND ANNUAL REPORT

2401. Appropriations.

2402. Annual report.

CHAPTER 26-DEBTS AND COLLECTION

2601. Collection and adjustment of debts.

2602. Transportation of international mail by air carriers of the United States.

2603. Settlement of claims for damages caused by the Postal Service.

2604. Delivery of stolen money to owner.

2605. Suits to recover wrongful or fraudulent payments.

3001. Nonmailable matter.

3002. Nonmailable motor vehicle master keys.

3002a. Nonmailability of locksmithing devices.

3003. Mail bearing a fictitious name or address.

3004. Delivery of mail to persons not residents of the place of address.

3005. False representations; lotteries.

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3006. Unlawful matter.

3007. Detention of mail for temporary periods.

3008. Prohibition of pandering advertisements.

3009. Mailing of unordered merchandise.

3010. Mailing of sexually oriented advertisments.

3011. Judicial enforcement.

3012. Civil Penalties.

3013. Semiannual reports on investigative activities of the Postal Sevice.

3014. Nonmailable plants.

3015. Nonmailable plant pests and injurious animals.

CHAPTER 32-PENALTY AND FRANKED MAIL

3201. Definitions.

3202. Penalty mail.

3203. Endorsements on penalty covers.

3204. Restrictions on use of penalty mail.

3205. Accounting for penalty covers.

3206. Reimbursement for penalty mail service.

3207. Limit of weight of penalty mail; postage on overweight matter.

3208. Shipment by most economical means.

3209. Executive departments to supply information.

3210. Franked mail transmitted by the Vice President, Members of Congress, and

congressional officials.

3211. Public documents.

3212. Congressional Record under frank of Members of Congress.

3213. Seeds and reports from Department of Agriculture.

3214. Mailing privilege of former President; surviving spouse of former President.

3215. Lending or permitting use of frank unlawful.

3216. Reimbursement for franked mailings.

3217. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries of

Postal Union of Americas and Spain.

3218. Franked mail for survivors of Members of Congress.

3219. Mailgrams.

3220. Use of official mail in the location and recovery of missing children.

CHAPTER 34-ARMED FORCES AND FREE POSTAGE

3401. Mailing privileges of members of Armed Forces of the United States and of

friendly foreign nations.

[3402. Repealed.]

3403. Matter for blind and other handicapped persons.

3404. Unsealed letters sent by blind or physically handicapped persons.

3405. Markings.

3406. Balloting materials under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee

Voting Act.

CHAPTER 36—POSTAL RATES, CLASSES, AND SERVICES

SUBCHAPTER I-POSTAL RATE COMMISSION

3601. Establishment.

3602. Terms of office.

3603. Rules; regulations; procedures.

3604. Administration.

SUBCHAPTER II-PERMANENT RATES AND CLASSES OF MAIL

3621. Authority to fix rates and classes.

3622. Rates and fees.

3623. Mail classification.

3624. Recommended decisions of Commission.

3625. Action of the Governors.

3626. Reduced rates.