postmaster is not available, the postal clerk shall sign the postmaster's name, and initial.

(c) Delivering mail and Form 2713-A to air carrier. The dispatching clerk shall deliver mail and all three copies of Form 2713-A, with carbon paper in place, to the messenger for delivery to the airport.

(d) Verification and correction by air carrier representative. (1) The air carrier representative will count pieces of mail received from the messenger, compare with total shown on Form 2713-A, and, if in agreement, sign form in the space provided and add his airline's code. He will retain Parts 1 and 2 and return Part 3 to the messenger.

(2) When not in agreement, the carrier will process as follows:

(i) If pouches are listed but not received, cross out the individual listing and grand total. Insert correct adjacent totals.

(ii) If mail is received but not listed, insert weight of each pouch on the proper destination line and amend totals.

(iii) In either event, note facts prominently on Form 2713-A in any blank space. Advise messenger of any discrepancy.

(iv) Make all corrections to Form 2713-A before the carbon paper has been removed.

(v) After corrections have been made, sign and dispose of form as indicated in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph.

(e) Postal unit file copies. When the messenger returns Copy 3 to the postal unit, that office shall file the copy by date order for future reference.

(f) Canceled flights. When a flight is canceled after mail and related Form 2713-A have been delivered to the air carrier, the mail and all three copies of Form 2713-A will be returned to the post office. The post office shall then destroy Copies 1 and 2 of Form 2713-A, note Copy 3 to show flight canceled, and file.

§ 533.4 Form 2713-B, Alaska Airmail Transfer and Exception Record.

(a) Description. Form 2713-B is used for a transfer and exception record in the Alaska air service. It is an accounting document and is printed in four parts with carbon paper interleaved. See

§ 533.9 for supply.

(b) Preparation-(1) Who prepares. The delivering air carrier must prepare Form 2713-B for all transfers, both intraline and interline, and for all irregularities. The form will be prepared at transfer or irregularity point. In limited instances, the form will be prepared by postal personnel when the air carrier fails to do so.

(2) Irregularities requiring Form 2713-B. (1) Carry by and/or overfly and mail delivered to postal unit other than billed destination.

(ii) Removed in error short of destination and turned over to postal unit.

(iii) For any mail not boarded as dispatched on Form 2713-A.

(iv) For all mail boarded from possible stockpile of carrier.

(v) For all mail boarded at non-postoffice air stop unaccompanied by Form 2713-A.

(3) Distribution. Distribute copies of Form 2713-B as indicated on each copy. When mail is delivered to a postal unit, other than destination of the mail, Copy 1, 3, and 4 will be retained by the postal unit for forwarding daily or on next flight to Director, Transportation Division, Post Office Department, Federal Office Building, Post Office Box 9000, Seattle, Wash. 98109.

§ 533.5 § 533.6

[Reserved]

Form 2753-A, Mail Delivery Record.

(a) Description. Form 2753-A is a record of mail delivered to airport mail facilities. Form 2753-A is not used for mail that is delivered with Form 2734. (See § 533.2. See also § 533.9 for supply.)

(b) Preparation. (1) Airport mail facility personnel will complete heading in set of Form 2753-A, original and two copies, for each air carrier to record the delivery of mail. If an exceptionally large number of trips are involved for any one air carrier, separate forms may be prepared for each tour of duty.

(2) When delivering airmail or firstclass mail to airport mail facilities, air carrier personnel will enter appropriate information in each column of Form 2753-A and initial.

(3) Receiving unit postal personnel must examine labels to be sure that the

mail delivered by the air carrier is addressed or coded for delivery to the receiving unit.

(c) Review. The receiving clerk on each tour shall review the time shown under Form 2753-A headings "Arrival Time of Trip" and "Mail to AMF" to assure that air carriers are observing the local delivery time limit and prepare Form 2759 when required.

(d) Distribution. (1) Deliver original of Form 2753-A to air carrier.

(2) Send first copy to your local transportation division.

(3) File second copy.

§ 533.7

Form 2759, Report of Irregular Handling of Airmail.

(a) Description. Form 2759 is used as a basis for brief against an air carrier for irregular handling. It is a four part set. See § 533.9 for supply.

(b) Preparation. Postal employees must prepare Form 2759, immediately to report any air carrier irregularities in handling mail or mail equipment, including weather damage due to negligence on the part of the carrier, or other irregularity requiring remedial action. When mail is damaged by inclement weather, report only those bags and outside pieces actually wet or otherwise damaged. Do not prepare forms to cover irregular receipt due to weather conditions. Furnish all data required. If accuracy or completeness of the facts are uncertain, get additional information from the local representative of the carrier involved. Specific information required on Form 2759 for certain irregularities is included with the description of that irregularity in paragraph (c) of this section.

(c) Airmail irregularities. Following is a classification and description of airmail irregularities:

(1) Carry-by. When a pouch is transported past its destination on a trip, classify as a carry-by. This includes mail transported past an intraline or interline connection or ultimate point to which schemed. An overcarry on interchange trip for mail destined for the interchange point, or connection mail due off at the interchange point, will be charged to arriving air carrier.

(2) Failed to load. Generally refers to airmail received from the local postal

unit and involves only a few pouches. Failures to load mail are (i) failure of an air carrier to pick up all mail from the postal unit or (ii) inadvertently failing to board all mail picked up from the postal unit on the trip of dispatch.

(3) Failure to unload. This is rare instance of air carrier failing to remove airmail from aircraft which is laying over, or is being sent to hangar for service or repairs.

(4) Loaded in error. When an air carrier receives and boards airmail dispatched to another carrier or receives airmail for two or more trips at one time and boards some of it on a trip other than trip of dispatch. When preparing Form 2759 for loaded in error, the postal employee will, before distributing copies of the form, request verification of the classification from a representative of the airline responsible for handling mail. The coding shown on the related pouch label should be reproduced on Form 2759.

(5) Removed in error. When airmail is off-loaded short of destination.

(6) Failure to transfer. Involves mail not transferred between flights of the same air carrier or between flights of two air carriers. When a receiving carrier fails to complete a transfer by not boarding an intraline or interline pouch, this should be charged as a failure to transfer not as a failure to load. The actual arrival time of the trip and actual departure time of the connecting flight must be shown on Form 2759.

(7) Delayed delivery. Instances when an air carrier exceeds time allowed for delivery of incoming airmail. Arrival time of the flight and time that mail is delivered to the postal unit must be shown on Form 2759.

(i) The time of delivery by an air carrier representative is the time he appears at the postal unit ready to deliver the mail. If congestion or multiple operation prevent the air carrier representative from delivering the mail, no brief will be made.

(ii) When a carrier must make several trips between the aircraft and the postal unit because of volume, delivery time will be arrival of the first trip, except when there is extended delay between the first and final delivery.

(8) Failure to notify. Whenever an air carrier fails to notify the postal unit

The term "first-class mail by air" (FCM) is used to describe first-class mail, other than airmail and air parcel post, which is authorized for transportation by aircraft between designated points on a space-available, nonpriority basis. The mail to be included is:

(a) All mail paid at first-class rate, including business reply mail, APO1 and FPO1mail.

(b) All official U.S. Government mail endorse "first class," including APO1 and FPO1mail.

(c) All other sealed official U.S. Government letter-size mail except volume shipments on which it is known, or can be determined, the mailer does not expect air service.

(d) Inbound military official mail and FCM (personal) from APO1 and FPO1 units may be properly included in airlift dispatches over all authorized segments. § 534.2 Authority, rates, and service.

(a) Civil Aeronautics Board. The CAB establishes the rates to be paid air carriers for the transportation of FCM.

(b) Post Office Department—(1) Authorizations. Authorizations for dispatch of FCM are made by the Bureau of Transportation and International Serv

ices.

(2) Interline transfers-(1) Trunkline and cargo air carriers. (a) FCM will not be tendered by any postal unit

1 Authorized airlift of "SAM" letters and cards have been established over designated domestic segments. See § 127.1(e) (1) of this chapter for overseas handling.

if an intermediate transfer to another air carrier would be required to provide transportation to the intended destination unless such interline transfers have been mutually agreed to by the carriers involved and the Department.

(b) Single carrier service between any authorized points is believed inadequate, and an interline transfer of value is available, the transportation division in the dispatching region will request the Air Transportation Branch to consider the possibility of arranging with the carriers involved for establishment of such a mutually agreeable interline transfer.

(c) Full particulars will be furnished to all concerned by the Air Transportation Branch whenever interline transfers are agreed upon.

(d) Through interchange flights, operated by two or more carriers, shall not be considered as interline transfers.

(e) See § 534.3 (a) (4) (ii) for instructions concerning transfers to another air carrier which may be directed when mail has been irregularly handled.

(ii) Local service air carriers. No interline transfers in ordinary circumstances are authorized between local service air carriers or between trunkline and local service air carriers. See § 534.3 (a) (4) (ii) (b) and (c) concerning permissible interline transfers between any domestic air carriers when service has been interrupted.

(c) Division of FCM-(1) When to make. When two or more authorized carriers operate between the same pair of points, and the criteria shown in subparagraph (2) of this paragraph exists, the FCM shall be divided on an equitable basis by the dispatching unit with due consideration to the availability of space and the needs of the postal service.

(2) Criteria for division—(1) Volume. (a) The total volume of FCM for each separate destination point, arriving at the airport of dispatch via each vehicle service (VS) or mail messenger (MM) truck, will be considered in the division.

(b) No division will be warranted unless 200 or more pounds are available for dispatch. However, the local postal unit will endeavor to assign the shipments alternately to the available carriers having space to prevent one carrier consistently receiving less than division lots.

(ii) Air carrier schedules. (a) Carriers eligible to participate in a division of FCM arriving at an airport by each VS or MM are those which have any scheduled service to the destination city within a 4-hour period thereafter, regardless of arrival time.

(b) Generally, at major points, this 4-hour period will commence no later than 60 minutes after arrival at the airport of the VS or MM trip. At smaller stations, the time period may commence immediately on arrival of the surface connection at the airport. The director, transportation division, of the region having jurisdiction of the dispatching postal unit will establish the appropriate time period which will apply at that point and notify all concerned.

(c) Whenever FCM is available for dispatch, and no flights are scheduled to a destination during the next 4-hour period, the usual division of FCM will not apply. In these circumstances, the FCM will be divided among those carriers having service scheduled to depart within 90 minutes following the period of no service.

(d) The regular Origin and Destination Schedules will be used to determine the availability of scheduled service. In the event an air carrier desires to have other schedules included (e.g., trips involving an intraline transfer or multiple stops), this information must be submitted to the director, transportation division, having jurisdiction, with copies to the competitive carriers. Schedules of this type will be included with those in the Origin and Destination Schedules by the director, transportation division, in determining the proper allocations of FCM. Although it will not be necessary for these schedules to be published in the Origin and Destination Schedules, they may, if desired, be included by preceding the listing with an ampersand (&).

(e) An air carrier can participate in a division of FCM on only those days when there is scheduled service by that carrier within the specified 4-hour period.

(f) When one air carrier has service arriving in time for connection to a letter carrier delivery trip not provided by competing carriers, the division shall be accomplished by dispatch of the city pouches to that carrier. Usually, the dispatch of city pouches by one carrier and

the dispatch of AMF or Dis pouches by another carrier, or carriers, will accomplish an equitable division. When the routing of city mail by one carrier, or to one airport in multiple airport situations, is advantageous to the postal service, no division will be made of the city mail even though this results in an unequal tender to one carrier.

(g) An air carrier participating in a division of FCM having knowledge that he will be unable to transport such mail within the specified 4-hour period is required to notify the local postal unit before the division is made. Observance of this requirement will permit equitable division between carriers without loss of space availability.

(h) Adjustments in each separate division will be made when there are air carrier schedule changes involving establishment, revision, or elimination of particular flights which warrant such action.

(iii) Multiple airport cities-(a) At origin point. The division will be determined separately at each airport involved.

(b) At destination point. (i) FCM for a destination point which is a multiple airport city will be considered as a single total and those carriers with any service scheduled during the specified 4-hour period from the origin point to any one of the destination airports shall participate in the division. In the event the receiving region desires routing to a particular airport, as described in subdivision (ii) of this section, an equal division will be made only to the extent possible while still providing service to the airport specified.

(ii) All FCM cannot be handled interchangeably at different airports to equal advantage. The director, transportation division, of the receiving region will determine what arrangements may be necessary to assure receipt at the most advantageous airport. (Example: the dispatch of pouches of New Jersey FCM labeled to "Newark, N.J., Dis" may not be desired to Kennedy or La Guardia airports when following service is available to the Newark airport.)

(iv) Stockpiling FCM. Postal units will make local arrangements with air carriers for stockpiling FCM when it is mutually advantageous and agreeable.

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