Public Law 74–203

That section 3936

Postal service.

Return of undelivered letters, etc.

R. S., sec. 3936, p. 764; Vol. 41, p. 683.

Regulations.

of the Revised Statutes, as amended April 24, 1920 (41 Stat. 583; 39 U. S. C. 406), be amended to read as follows:

“The Postmaster General may regulate the period during which undelivered letters and parcels of the first class shall remain in any post office and when they shall be returned to the dead-letter office; and he may make regulations for their return from the dead-letter office to the writers when they cannot be delivered to the parties

Fees increased.

addressed. When letters and parcels of the first class are returned from the dead-letter office to the writers, a fee of 5 cents shall be collected at the time of delivery, and in addition a charge shall be made of the minimum registry fee for the return of all ordinary dead letters containing $1 or more in cash, and parcels of the first class apparently valued at $1 or more, under such rules and regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe.”