CHAPTER I-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT SUBCHAPTER A- -POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT AND POSTAL SERVICE Part Establishment and organization of the Post Office Department. Post Office inspectors. Miscellaneous provisions relating to the Department and the Postal Service. 1 2 3 4 6 Supply contracts: Service property: Telegrams. 7 Postal revenues and other public funds: Sources and disposal of. 8 Postage stamps and other stamped paper and securities. SUBCHAPTER B-ESTIMATES, APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND 17 18 ACCOUNTS Disbursements and accounts. Settlement of accounts: Legal proceedings: Compromises. 24 SUBCHAPTER C-POST OFFICES Establishment and discontinuance of post offices; conduct of offices during absence of postmasters. 25 General provisions relating to post offices. Classification and rates of postage. Provisions applicable to the several classes of mail matter. Unmailable matter. Free matter in the mails. 819603- 49 SUBCHAPTER E-TREATMENT OF MAIL MATTER IN POST OFFICES: LOSS OR IMPROPER TREATMENT: UNDELIVERABLE MAIL MATTER Part 41 42 43 44 45 The privacy and safeguarding of the mails. Treatment of domestic mail matter at post offices of mailing and at post offices in transit. Treatment of domestic mail matter at receiving post offices. Loss, rifling, damage, or other mistreatment of mail matter; inquiries, complaints, and investigations; requests for and failure to receive return receipts; and collections from postal employees and mail contractors. Dead mail matter. SUBCHAPTER G-REGISTRY SYSTEM: INSURANCE AND COLLECT-ON DELIVERY SERVICES 58 Registration of domestic mail matter. 59 60 Treatment of matter at post offices of mailing and in transit. 61 62 63 64 Handling of registered matter by city, village, and rural carriers. Domestic insurance and collect-on-delivery services: Indemnity. SUBCHAPTER H-MONEY-ORDER SYSTEM General provisions. Issue of domestic money orders. Payment of domestic money orders. Repayment of money orders: Duplicate orders; payment of invalid orders Postal notes. by warrant. International money-order service. Semidomestic money-order service. Money-order business on rural routes. SUBCHAPTER I-POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM Establishment. 81 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Payment of certificates and interest. Postal savings funds. Supplies, records, reports, and miscellaneous. SUBCHAPTER J-TRANSPORTATION OF THE MAILS Post roads and establishment of mail service. Government monopoly of mail transportation. Transportation of mails by railroads. Transportation of mails by urban and interurban electric railway common carriers. Mail-messenger service. Service by pneumatic tubes or similar devices. Air mail service. Star, steamship, and steamboat routes, and vehicle service in cities. 108 109 Treatment of mail matter in the Railway Mail Service. Full and apartment railway post-office cars. SUBCHAPTER L-INTERNATIONAL POSTAL SERVICE Postal arrangements. Treatment of mails: Postage refunds: International reply coupons: Disposition of foreign dead matter. Withdrawal or change of address. Foreign mail involving customs revenue. 113 114 115 116 117 Prohibited importations. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army mail service. Part 125 Miscellaneous. 127 International Postal Service: Postage rates, service available, and instructions for mailing. CROSS REFERENCES: Canal Zone regulations relating to postal services: See Panamal Canal, 35 CFR Part 17. Civil Aeronautics Board regulations relating to mail: See Civil Aviation, 14 CFR Parts 208, 216. Illustrations of United States postage stamps: See Money and Finance: Treasury, 31 CFR Part 400. Importations by mail under regulations of the Bureau of Customs, Department of the Treasury: See Customs Duties, 19 CFR Part 9. Importations of plant or plant products by mail: See Agriculture, 7 CFR Part 351. NOTE: The material in Parts 1 to 125 and Parts 135 to 137 has been keyed to the revised edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations in which publication will be found sections not appearing in the Code of Federal Regulations. SUPPLEMENTAL PUBLICATIONS: List of international money-order offices in certain foreign countries, Post Office Department. Opinions of the Solicitor of the Post Office Department. Postal Laws and Regulations. Quarterly Supplement to Parts I and II of the United States Official Postal Guide. United States Official Postal Guide; Part I-Domestic, Part II International postal service (Part 127 of this chapter). The Postal Bulletin (published twice weekly). |