Volume 49 · 868
Public Law 74–695
Extending the period during which no demurrage is charged on collect-on-delivery parcels and excepting the imposition of demurrage charged on collect-on-delivery parcels exchanged between the continental and island possessions.
Approved August 26, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
Extending the period during which no demurrage is charged on collect-on-delivery parcels and excepting the imposition of demurrage charged on collect-on-delivery parcels exchanged between the continental and island possessions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of
Postal service.
Vol. 46. p. 377.
U. S. C., p. 1725.
May 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 377; 39 U. S. C., Supp. VII, sec. 246c), is hereby amended to read as follows:“That under such regulations as the Postmaster General may
Collect-on-delivery matter.
Extending demurrage exemption period on.
prescribe, any collect-on-delivery parcel which the addressee fails to remove from the post office within twenty days from the first attempt to deliver or the first notice of arrival at the office of address may be returned to the sender, charged with the return postage, whether or not such parcel bears any specified time limit for delivery; and a demurrage charge of not exceeding 5 cents per day may be collected when delivery has not been made to either the addressee or
Proviso.
Exempting exchanges with island possessions.
the sender until after the expiration of the prescribed period: Provided, That no demurrage shall be charged on collect-on-delivery parcels exchanged between post offices in continental United States and post offices in the Territories and island possessions of the United States.”
Approved, August 26, 1935.