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GG-8-145 1 (1978-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachkm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A. 102 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054. B-i64786 APR 4 1978 GG 8- 145 The Honorable John Glenn Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your January 19, 1978, reauest for the General Accounting Office's view on S. 1641, 95th Congress, a bill to provide that certain matters not be considered as letters for purposes of the Private Exoress Statutes. The Private Express Statutes include 39 U.S.C. 601-06 4, -and 18 U.S.C. 1693-99 and 1724 (1970). These provisions basically reserve for the Postal Service the revenue obtainable in the carriaqe of letters for compensation. Private carriage generally is permitted only if postage is paid. 39 U.S.C. 601(a)(2) (1970). The Private Express Statutes protect postal revenues so that the Postal Service can meet its legal obligations to provide mail service throughout the Nation. If mail volumes were to decline significantly due to weakening of the statutes, a dis- proportionate part of postal costs would remain to be apportioned over fewer pieces of mail, resulting in higher postal rates. Although the stated objective of S. 1641 is to orovide that certain matters not be considered as letters for purposes of the Private Express Statutes, the bill does not provide a statutory definition of a letter, nor does it include any of the items that constitute letters. The central term letter is not defined in the current statutes either. To administer the statutes the Postal Service has oublished, after a lengthy notice-and-comment rulemaking proceedinq, detailed regulations that include a definition of letter. ..,,-7.

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