Title 39 — Postal Service
Part IV · Chapter 36 — Postal Rates, Classes, and Services
§ 3661. Postal services
Statutory text
The Postal Service shall develop and promote adequate and efficient postal services.
When the Postal Service determines that there should be a change in the nature of postal services which will generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis, it shall submit a proposal, within a reasonable time prior to the effective date of such proposal, to the Postal Regulatory Commission requesting an advisory opinion on the change.
The Commission shall not issue its opinion on any proposal until an opportunity for hearing on the record under sections 556 and 557 of title 5 has been accorded to the Postal Service, users of the mail, and an officer of the Commission who shall be required to represent the interests of the general public. The opinion shall be in writing and shall include a certification by each Commissioner agreeing with the opinion that in his judgment the opinion conforms to the policies established under this title.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Postal Reorganization Act
Pub. L. 91–375 · 84 Stat. 719
Enacted · 39 U.S.C. § 3661
Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 764
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 764Pub. L. 109–435 title VI § 604(f) · 120 Stat. 3198
Substituted · 39 U.S.C. § 3661(b)
Pub. L. 109–435 substituted “Postal Regulatory Commission” for “Postal Rate Commission”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–435 substituted “Postal Regulatory Commission” for “Postal Rate Commission”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(f) Other References.— Whenever a reference is made in any provision of law (other than this Act or a provision of law amended by this Act), regulation, rule, document, or other record of the United States to the Postal Rate Commission, such reference shall be considered a reference to the Postal Regulatory Commission.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–435 substituted “Postal Regulatory Commission” for “Postal Rate Commission”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title.
Commission on Postal Service
Pub. L. 94–421, § 7, , 90 Stat. 1307, related to establishment, appointment and compensation of personnel and officers of a Commission on Postal Service and its duty to determine public service aspects of Postal Service and extent to which public service aspects of Postal Service are to be supported by appropriations, to study rate making, and to review service levels and electronic fund transfers and communication techniques, with appropriate recommendations to be transmitted to President and Congress on or before , 60 days after which transmittal it was to cease to exist.
Credits
1970–2006 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 91–375, , 84 Stat. 764; Pub. L. 109–435, title VI, § 604(f), , 120 Stat. 3242.)