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service to the following designated postal data center or division:

Carrier

Caribbean Atlantic Airlines, Inc. Hawaiian Airlines,

Aloha Airlines, Inc. Alaska Airlines, Inc. (States-Alaska).

Northwest Airlines

(States-Alaska). Pan American World

coming within the scope of paragraph (b) of this section shall be referred to the transportation division.

(b) Regional. Correspondence to and from air carriers relating to policy, schedules, operations, fining, quarters, mileages and rates; irregularities and changes in dispatch billing procedures and forms; omissions and failures of carriers to perform; division of mail; service requirements, actions involving CAB orders and rulings, first-class mail by air; and other matters of regional nature, shall be conducted by the transportation division within the scope of regional delegations. Questions of interregional impact or of departmental concern, as specified elsewhere in the regulations, will be forwarded to the Department for decision.

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(Intra-Alaska).

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Western Airlines, Inc.

(Intra-Alaska).

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Airways (StatesAlaska). Western Airlines, Inc. (States-Alaska). Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Intra-Alaska). Kodiak Airways, Inc. (Intra-Alaska). Northern Consoli

dated Airlines, Inc. (Intra-Alaska). Reeve Aleutian Airways, Inc.

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(a) Irregularities. Irregular handling of mail by airline carrier personnel shall be promptly reported on Form 2759, Report of Irregular Handling of Airmail, by the postal employee who observes the irregularity or who is informed of irregular performance through receipt at a postal unit of the post office accounting copies of Form 2734, by the air carrier. See $533.7 of this chapter for types of irregularities that will be reported and for instructions on preparation of the form.

(b) Deductions. Form 2734 provides for the adjustment of compensation for service ordered and paid for but not performed.

(c) Fines. Air carriers transporting mail must observe all applicable postal laws and all applicable regulations issued by the Post Office Department. Air carriers may be subject to fines and deductions for failure to comply therewith. § 531.9 Correspondence concerning air

service.

(a) Local. Correspondence on local operations of mutual concern shall be handled direct between the local carrier and local air stop postal unit heads or field service representatives. Matters

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PART 532-AIR STAR ROUTE SERVICE

Description, authority, and general.
Contracts.

Protection of mail.

532.4 Reports and records.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 532 issued under 5 U.S.C. 301, 39 U.S.C. 501.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 532 appear at 32 F.R. 10918, July 26, 1967, unless otherwise noted.

§ 532.1 Description, authority, and general.

(a) Description. Air star route service is established and operated under contracts awarded by the Postmaster General for air transportation in areas where such service is in the public interest, and the nature of the terrain is such that surface transportation is impractical or inadequate. This service may include any or all classes of mail.

(b) Authority. The Air Star Route Law (49 U.S. Code, sec. 6303) authorizes the Postmaster General to contract for this service after receiving proper certificate from the Civil Aeronautics Board.

(c) General. (1) Upon receipt of a request from the Department for the certification, the CAB is required to promptly publish in the FEDERAL REGISTER, and to send to such persons as the Board may by regulation determine, a notice describing the proposed air star route. The CAB shall afford interested persons a reasonable opportunity to submit written data, views, or arguments, with or without opportunity to present the same orally or in any manner.

(2) Contractors for service awarded under an air star route contract will be required to provide fully adequate and suitable aircraft for the carriage of the mail and to transport the whole of said mail, whatever may be its size, weight, or increase during the terms of the contract, with celerity, certainty, and security on each and every trip as required by the advertisement. Contractors may be required to convey without extra charge (1) all post office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys and other postal supplies that may be offered to them, and (11) postal inspectors and other agents and officials of the Department, on regular scheduled trips on which mail is handled and between the points specified in the official statement of the route, when the space or weight limits of the plane permits.

(3) The acceptance of a bid and the execution of a contract for the performance of air star route service does not authorize the contractor or carrier to engage in the transportation of persons or property, for compensation, between the points or over the route described in the contract without compliance with applicable Federal and State statutes and with applicable rules and regulations of the FAA and of the CAB.

(4) Bidders for proposed air star routes and their sureties will acquaint themselves with Federal laws relating to contracts for carrying the mail.

(5) All accepted bidders under an advertisement for air star routes will be required to execute contracts with sureties acceptable to the Department. A list of acceptable surety companies is shown in § 521.3 (c) (2) of this chapter.

(6) Contracts must be executed and filed in the Department within 60 days from the date of acceptance of the bid, otherwise the accepted bidder may be considered as having failed. The Department reserves the right to (1) suspend the award of contract on any route for a period not exceeding 60 days from the date of the expiration of the advertisement and allow a corresponding extension of time for the execution of the contract, and (ii) to rescind the acceptance of a proposal at any time before the signing of the formal contract on behalf of the United States without allowing indemnity.

(7) Where there is rail service or good highway facilities, or a combination of both, generally an air star route could not be justified. However, prospec

tive applicants for air star routes should communicate with the Regional Director, Post Office Department, of the postal region in which the proposed route is located. When the official approves the application and forwards an appropriate recommendation to the Bureau of Transportation and International Services, necessary certification by the CAB will be requested if approved by that Bureau.

(8) Air star route contractors, except in Alaska, will be required to comply with such economic regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the CAB.

(9) Contracts will comply with all provisions of Executive Order No. 10925 of March 5, 1961, and of the rules, regulations, and relevant orders of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.

§ 532.2 Contracts.

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(a) Obtaining bids—(1) ments. After obtaining a certification from the CAB that the proposed route does not conflict with the development of air transportation, an advertisement is issued by the Department inviting proposals for air transportation of mail between the points and on the terms stated. Copies of the advertisement are furnished to postmasters for posting at terminal offices.

(2) Requirements of bidders. Bidders must meet the following requirements:

(1) Eligibility. (a) No proposal for a contract for air star route service shall be considered unless the bidder is a resident of, or is qualified to do business as a common carrier by air, in a State within which one or more points to be served under the proposed contract are located. The term "State" as used here includes the several States, and the District of Columbia.

(b) Only bidders holding an appropriate operating certificate issued by the FAA will be considered for award of a contract for air star route service.

(c) For further eligibility requirements, see § 521.3(c) (2) (i) of this chapter.

(11) Bonds. See § 521.3 (c) (b) (iii) of this chapter.

(3) Obtaining proposal forms. See § 521.3 (c) (5) of this chapter.

(4) Submitting bids. See § 521.3 (c) (6) of this chapter.

(b) Award of contract. See § 521.3 (d) of this chapter.

(c) Application of contract regulations. If there is no conflict, all laws and regulations governing surface star routes in general apply to contracts made under the air star route law.

(d) Payments. See § 521.3 (h) of this chapter.

(e) Cancellation of air star route contract. A contract shall be canceled by the Post Office Department upon the issuance by the CAB of an authorization to any air carrier to engage in the transportation of mail by aricraft between any of the points named in the air star route contract.

(f) Revocation of FAA certificate. If a contractor for an air star route should have his operating certificate revoked, the air star route contract shall become null and void effective with the date of loss of such certificate, without payment of any indemnity.

§ 532.3 Protection of mail.

The contractor is required to take all necessary steps to protect the mail in accordance with the terms of the advertisement.

§ 532.4 Reports and records.

Postmasters at terminal points must maintain such records and submit such reports as may be directed by the transportation division director.

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533.6 Form 2753-A, Mail Delivery Record. 533.7 Form 2759, Report of Irregular Handling of Airmail.

533.8 Applicability of forms and procedures. 533.9 Airmail and first-class mail by air

forms, titles, and sources of supply. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 533 issued under 5 U.S.C. 301, 39 U.S.C. 501.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 533 appear at 33 F.R. 5161, March 29, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

§ 533.1 Form 2729, Weekly Summary of Airmail Dispatched.

(a) Description. Form 2729 covers airmail dispatched to all domestic air

carriers operating within and between the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and to Canada. See 533.31 for exception. It is the basic document from which payments to the original and interline air carriers are computed. See § 533.9 for supply.

(b) Preparation. (See Exhibit following this paragraph.)

(1) Who prepares. (i) The form is an eight-part weekly summary of airmail dispatched to a specific trip. The seven copies are provided for transmission to air carrier for load planning with each day's tender of mail for that trip. The original and Part 2 (Friday copy) will furnish a weekly summary of mail dispatched to a trip for the postal data center and to air carrier accounting, since each day's dispatch is entered on the original and is shown on Part 2.

(ii) Headings are entered on each form with an electric-tape-driven typewriter by the regional headquarters post office which is under the technical direction of the regional transportation division. The forms are then sent to dispatching postal units for entering the pieces, weights, totaling each day's dispatch and closing the form at the end of the week, at 2400 on Friday.

(2) Heading form. The regional headquarters post office will enter the following:

(i) Inclusive dates of week covered by the form.

(ii) The two-letter alpha code identifier of the air carrier to which mail is dispatched.

(iii) Trip number of actual dispatch. (iv) Prefix the serial number with the regional number.

(v) Scheduled departure time of the trip (in 2400 hour clock) and frequency of trip.

(vi) Origin code of the airport through which the mail is dispatched.

(vii) Destination code of mail in the "DEST" box. When a trip serves the destination of the mail, only the code will be entered. Enter transfers as follows:

(a) Intraline-transfer point (s) above "DEST" block in scheme order.

(b) Interline-transfer point in "DEST or TR PT" box above the "DEST" block and the receiving air carrier's twoletter alpha code at the right of the transfer point under the "Route No." heading.

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(c) Show multiple transfers from top to bottom in schemed order above the "DEST" box. Identify interchange trips with an "X" following the second carrier's route identifier.

(viii) When the pouch is made on a frequency other than the trip's frequency, enter the pouch frequency in the "FREQ" box at the right of the related destination.

(3) Recording dispatches—(i) Under destination. (a) Dispatching postal units will use scratch sheets to accumulate pieces and weights of mail for each destination.

(b) Enter, under the proper destination, mail labeled to that point, mail scheduled to continue from that point by surface transportation, and mail for another air carrier when the transfer is to be effected through the airport mail facility. Use individual actual weights indicated on the labels of pouches, sacks, and outside parcels unless permission has been granted to bulk weigh mail on platform scales direct to the air carrier. It is necessary only that the total pieces and weight be entered in the space provided under respective destination column. Do not identify pouches, sacks, outside parcels, or register as such on this form. Enter pieces in the left hand side of the (PCS) block, and weight in the right hand side of the (WT) box for ease in adding pieces and weight columns at the close of the week.

(ii) Daily closing. (a) Cross add pieces and weights for the day's tender of mail, enter totals in "Total Mail" column, record mail ready time and initial form in the space provided for each day. The mail ready time will be that time the mail is available to the air carrier. Mail messenger or vehicle driver will make this entry at air stop post offices when he delivers the mail to the carrier at the airport.

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(b) Remove the appropriate copy from the back of the form and give it to the air carrier representative with the related mail. This procedure will continue throughout the week (through Friday, the last day).

(iii) Weekly closing. (a) Add pieces and weights shown under each destination and enter totals in "Total" box at the bottom of the form.

(b) Also add daily total of pieces and weights shown in the "Total Mail" column and enter grand totals for the week.

(c) Cross add "Total Pieces and Weights" shown in the total line and see that these totals agree with those previously entered for the Grand Total.

(d) Date and sign Post Office Certification of mail dispatched for the week. (iv) If the volume of mail is too large to be listed on one Form 2729, use a new preheaded form provided by the regional headquarters postmaster.

(4) Irregular operations. (i) When it is necessary to manually add routings for pouches because of off schedule operations, either manually enter headings under a blank destination or head up and use a new Form 2729 from supply of blank forms furnished you by the regional headquarters post office.

(ii) Changes must not be made to routings on preheaded forms. When schedules are changed during the week and preheaded forms are not supplied, head a new form for the change to use for the remainder of the week. Close the preheaded obsolete form.

(iii) When an air carrier takes possession of the mail and the trip cancels, do not change entries on original Form 2729, instead air carrier must prepare Form 2734 to adjust the air transportation charges.

(iv) When it is necessary to correct a total, draw a line through the incorrect figure and write in the correct total.

(c) Sending Part 1, Form 2729, to Dallas Postal Data Center. When Part 1 has been closed and balanced for the week, send Forms 2729 arranged in serial number order to the Dallas Postal Data Center, Transportation Claims Section, Post Office Department, Box 1557, Main Post Office Building, Dallas, TX 75299. The forms must reach the PDC by no later than the opening of business the following Monday. The Dallas Postal Data Center will return Forms 2729 to the dispatching postal unit for regular retention as soon as the air transportation charges have been settled. A copy of Form 2729 must be given to the carrier based on scheduled frequency even though no mail was dispatched on a given day.

(d) Departure time. Postal units shall spot check actual departure time against "Mail Ready" time on Form 2729 to assure that unreported delays are not occurring.

(e) Interchange trips. (1) Mail moving over more than one airmail route on one aircraft must be properly identified

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