5.12 Mail carried by airplane. (a) Effective July 1, 1934, the rate of postage on air mail shall be 6 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof. (b) The term "air-mail" means mail of any class prepaid at the rate of postage prescribed in 39 U.S.C. 469 (a). (c) Effective December 1, 1937, the domestic rate of postage on matter carried by airplane, including transportation to and from the air-mail routes, shall be 6 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, regardless of distance, except as provided below: United States (mainland) to or from Hawaii Guam. Philippine Islands_ Per half ounce 10 15 Virgin Islands of United States-- Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands of United States, United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba). United States (mainland) to Canal Zone. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands of United States, United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba)— To Canal Zone-. To or from Hawaii. To or from Guam.. To or from Philippine Islands_-_ Puerto Rico to or from United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba). 15 30 50 60 Virgin Islands of United States to or from United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) – Hawaii to or from 20 10 55 10 10 10 30 35 Guam Philippine Islands.. Hawaii to Canal Zone_. Guam To or from Philippine Islands---- The foregoing air-mail rates shall include all transportation by air mail available in the United States, including Hawaii; also in the Philippine Islands. Official matter in penalty or franked envelopes may not be sent free by air mail, but shall be chargeable with postage at the air-mail rates, except in the case of urgent official communications of the Postal Service only, when their prompt dispatch is desirable. (d) Special air mail stamps should be used for the payment of postage on air mail, but ordinary postage stamps may be used. Air mail stamps may not be used on other than air mail. All mail intended to be carried by airplane should be plainly marked "VIA AIR MAIL" in the space immediately below the stamps and above the address. Envelopes of distinctive design approved by the department for air mail may be used for air mail only. (e) The postage on all air mail should be fully prepaid in order to expedite its handling, and postmasters shall make every effort to have patrons prepay the full amount of such matter. Nevertheless, short-paid mail intended to be carried by airplane shall, if it bears at least one full rate according to destination as shown in paragraph (c), be rated with the deficiency and dispatched as intended by the sender, the amount due to be collected upon delivery of the matter.t †For source citation, see note to § 5.1. Page 31 (Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 805, sec. 1, 45 Stat. 594, sec. 2 (a), 48 Stat. 933, sec. 2 (b), 48 Stat. 933; 39 U.S.C. 463, 469) [Sec. 511, as amended by P.M.G. Orders 5654, June 20, 1934; 11256, Jan. 14. 1938] CROSS REFERENCES: For collection on delivery, see §§ 12.1-12.4. For Civil Aeronautics regulations relating to air mail, see 14 CFR Part 90. For customs treatment of mail shipments of cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, tobacco products, oleomargarine and playing cards, under the provisions of parcel post convention with Cuba, see 19 CFR 7.13. 5.13 Postal cards. (a) Postal cards shall be transmitted through the mails at a postage charge of 1 cent each, including the cost of manufacture. (b) Private mailing cards (post cards) shall be transmitted by mail at a postage charge of 1 cent each. (See § 5.8.)† (Sec. 9, 20 Stat. 358, sec. 1, 23 Stat. 386, sec. 1100, 40 Stat. 327, sec. 1401, 40 Stat. 1150; 39 U.S.C. 280) [Sec. 512] 5.14 Insufficiently prepaid first-class matter. All mail matter of the first class upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid shall be forwarded to its destination, charged with the unpaid rate, to be collected on delivery. If the postage is short paid one rate, the additional charge shall be 3 cents, or the deficient postage. If it is short more than one rate, the deficient postage and an additional charge of 1 cent for each short-paid ounce or fraction thereof shall be collected.t (Sec. 26, 20 Stat. 361, sec. 3, 45 Stat. 940; 39 U.S.C. 275 [Sec. 513] CROSS REFERENCE: For provisions relating to insufficient postage and collection of postage due, see §§ 12.1-12.4. 5.15 Insufficiently prepaid drop letters. In adjoining cities and in those adjacent districts of dense population having two or more post offices within a distance of 3 miles of each other, any letter mailed at one of such cities and/or offices and addressed to an adjoining city or to a locality within the delivery of another of such offices, which shall have been inadvertently prepaid at the drop or local letter rate of postage only, may be forwarded to its destination through the proper office, charged with the amount of the deficient postage, to be collected on delivery.t (R.S. 3937, 48 Stat. 1120; 39 U.S.C. 407) [Sec. 514, as amended by P.M.G. Order 6060, Aug. 21, 1934] CROSS REFERENCE: For collection of postage due, see § 12.2. 5.16 Soldiers', sailors', and marines' letters. (a) The Postmaster General may provide, by regulation, for transmitting unpaid and duly certified letters of soldiers, sailors, and marines in the service of the United States to their destination, to be paid on delivery. (b) Letters sent by soldiers, sailors, and marines in the United States service, located in the United States or any of its possessions or other places where the United States domestic mail service is in operation, addressed to places in the United States or any of its possessions, when indorsed "Soldier's letter," "Sailor's letter," or "Marine's letter," and signed thereunder either with facsimilie hand stamp or in writing, with his official designation, by a field or staff officer, post or detachment commander, to whose command the sol Page 32 For source citation, see note to § 5.1. dier belongs, or by a surgeon or chaplain at a hospital where he may be; and in the Navy and Marine service by any commissioned officer attached to the vessel or officer commanding a hospital or detachment ashore, may be dispatched to destination without prepayment of postage, and only the single rate of postage shall be collected on delivery.t (Sec. 1401, 40 Stat. 1150; 39 U.S.C. 280) [Sec. 515] 5.17 Double postage on ship letters. (a) All letters conveyed by vessels not regularly employed in carrying the mail shall, if for delivery within the United States, be charged with double postage, to cover the fee paid to the vessel. (b) Ship letters shall be charged double rate of postage, to be collected at the office of delivery; but on any such letter which has been prepaid by United States stamps at such double rate no additional charge shall be made. (c) Letters and packages carried in a private ship or vessel from one port to another in the United States, if the whole of the water be a post road by law, shall be charged only with single postage. If only a part of the voyage be over water declared to be a post road such letters and packages shall be charged with double the rate of postage. (d) Printed matter delivered to a post office by the master of a vessel arriving from a foreign port and not regularly engaged in carrying the mail, which is wholly unpaid, shall be charged with double the third-class rate of domestic postage, to be collected on delivery, and dispatched to its destination.t (R.S. 3913; 39 U.S.C. 298 [Sec. 516] CROSS REFERENCE: For treatment of ship matter in post offices, see § 10.4. 5.18 Weather Bureau reports. Weather Bureau reports shall be treated as letter mail, whether sent by officers of the service under penalty envelopes or by private persons and prepaid by stamps.† (R.S. 161, 396, secs. 304, 309, 42 Stat. 24, 25; 5 U.S.C. 22, 369) [Sec. 517] CROSS REFERENCE: For penalty privilege and use of penalty privilege envelopes, see §§ 8.10, 8.11. 5.19 Mutilated coin and paper currency. Mutilated coin and paper currency belonging to individuals shall not be transmitted to the Treasurer of the United States for redemption except as mail matter of the first class, upon which the regular postage shall be prepaid.† (R.S. 161, 396, secs. 304, 309, 42 Stat. 24, 25; 5 U.S.C. 22, 369) [Sec. 518] CROSS REFERENCE: For Department of the Treasury regulations relating to the exchange of mutilated coin and paper currency, see 31 CFR 100.5-100.15. SECOND-CLASS MATTER CROSS REFERENCES Certificate to accompany second-class matter: See § 20.3. DESCRIPTION 5.20 Second-class matter defined. Mailable matter of the second class shall embrace all newspapers and other periodical publications For source citation, see note to § 5.1. Page 33 which are issued at stated intervals and as frequently as four times a year, and are within the conditions named in §§ 5.58, 5.21.† (Sec. 10, 20 Stat. 359; 39 U.S.C. 224) [Sec. 519] 5.21 Conditions for admission as second-class matter. Except as otherwise provided by law, the conditions upon which a publication shall be admitted to the second class are as follows: (a) It must regularly be issued at stated intervals, as frequently as four times a year, and bear a date of issue, and be numbered consecutively. (b) It must be issued from a known office of publication. (c) It must be formed of printed paper sheets, without board, cloth, leather, or other substantial binding, such as distinguish printed books for preservation from periodical publications: Provided, That publications produced by the stencil, mimeograph, or hectograph process, or in imitation of typewriting, shall not be regarded as printed within the meaning of this paragraph. (d) It must be originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry, and having a legitimate list of subscribers. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to the second-class rate regular publications designed primarily for advertising purposes, or for free circulation, or for circulation at nominal rates. (Sec. 14, 20 Stat. 359, 48 Stat. 928; 39 U.S.C. 226) [Sec. 520, as amended by P.M.G. Order 5800, July 7, 1934] 5.22 Publications issued by benevolent or fraternal societies, institutions of learning. (a) All periodical publications issued from a known place of publication at stated intervals, and as frequently as four times a year, by or under the auspices of a benevolent or fraternal society or order organized under the lodge system and having a bona fide membership of not less than 1,000 persons, or by a regularly incorporated institution of learning, or by a regularly established State institution of learning supported in whole or in part by public taxation, or by or under the auspices of a tradesunion, and all publications of strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies, including the bulletins issued by State boards of health, and by State boards or departments of public charities and corrections, shall be admitted to the mails as secondclass matter, and the postage thereon shall be the same as on other second-class matter; and such periodical publications, issued by or under the auspices of benevolent or fraternal societies or orders or trades-unions, or by strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies, shall have the right to carry advertising matter, whether such matter pertains to such benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, trades-unions, strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies, or to other persons, institutions, or concerns; but such periodical publications, hereby permitted to carry advertising matter, must not be designed or published primarily for advertising purposes, and shall be originated and published to further the objects and purposes of such benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, trades-unions, or other societies, respectively; Page 34 +For source citation, see note to § 5.1. and all such periodicals shall be formed of printed paper sheets, without board, cloth, leather, or other substantial binding, such as distinguish printed books for preservation from periodical publications. The circulation through the mails of periodical publications issued by, or under the auspices of, benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, or trades-unions, or by strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies, as second-class mail matter, shall be limited to copies mailed to such members as pay therefor, either as a part of their dues or assessments or otherwise, not less than 50 per centum of the regular subscription price; to other bona fide subscribers; to exchanges and 10 per centum of such circulation as sample copies. When such members pay therefor as a part of their dues or assessments, individual subscriptions or receipts shall not be required. The office of publication of any such periodical publication shall be fixed by the association or body by which it is published, or by its executive board, and such publication shall be printed at such place and entered at the nearest post office thereto. (b) The publications of the institutions of learning referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be originated and published to further the objects and purposes of such institution of learning.† (Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 550; 39 U.S.Ĉ. 229) [Sec. 521] 5.23 Periodicals issued by State departments of agriculture. All periodical publications issued from a known place of publication at stated intervals as frequently as four times a year by State departments of agriculture shall be admitted to the mails as secondclass mail matter: Provided, That such matter shall be published only for the purpose of furthering the objects of such departments: And provided further, That such publications shall not contain any advertising matter of any kind. (31 Stat. 660; 39 U.S.C. 230) [Sec. 522] 5.24 Foreign publications. Foreign newspapers and other periodicals of the same general character as those admitted to the second class in the United States may, under the direction of the Postmaster General, on application of the publishers thereof or their agents, be transmitted through the mails at the same rates as if published in the United States. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow the transmission through the mails of any publication which violates any copyright granted by the United States. (Sec. 15, 20 Stat. 359; 39 U.S.C. 227) [Sec. 523] GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO ADMISSION OF PUBLICATIONS AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER 5.25 Regularity of issue. (a) A publication shall be regularly issued at stated intervals to maintain its second-class status. (See § 5.21.) When an issue is omitted for unavoidable cause, the first succeeding issue shall bear only the serial number following consecutively that of the last preceding issue, and shall not bear a double number. (b) Publications of colleges and schools, otherwise admissible as second-class matter, shall not lose such privileges by suspension of For source citation, see note to § 5.1. Page 35 |