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Public Law 72–286
To fix the rate of postage on publications mailed at the post office of entry for delivery at another post office within the postal district in which the headquarters or general business offices of the publisher are located.
Approved June 28, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To fix the rate of postage on publications mailed at the post office of entry for delivery at another post office within the postal district in which the headquarters or general business offices of the publisher are located.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 25 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1879 (20 Stat.
New matter.
361; U. S. C., title 39, sec. 286), is hereby amended by the addition of the following sentence:
Postage on other than weekly publications.
“Copies of a publication, other than a weekly, hereafter admitted to the second class of mail matter, when mailed by the publisher or registered news agent at a post office where it is entered, for delivery by letter carriers at a different post office within the delivery limits of which the headquarters or general business offices of the publisher
Rate.
are located, shall be chargeable with postage at the rate that would be applicable if the copies were mailed at the latter office, unless the
If pound rate higher.
postage chargeable at the pound rates from the office of mailing is higher, in which case such higher rates shall apply, but this provision
Applicable to future entries only.
shall not be applicable to publications already entered as second-class matter which retain their entry at the post office where now entered.”
Approved, June 28, 1932.