§5007 — Title 39 Postal Service | U.S. Code

Summary

Anyone or any company that carries mail must let postal workers who are in charge of the mail, or who are going to or from that work, ride on any ship, train, car, or plane they operate without charging extra when the workers show ID. For airplanes, "air carrier" and "aircraft" mean what 49 U.S.C. 40102(a) says. An air carrier must also carry, for free, Postal Service agents and officers traveling on official mail-related business on its planes when they show credentials, under rules the Secretary of Transportation sets.

Title 39, §5007

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(a)Each person or carrier engaged in the transportation of mail shall carry on any vessel, train, motor vehicle, or aircraft he operates, upon exhibiting their credentials and without extra charge therefor, persons on duty in charge of the mails or when traveling to and from such duty.

(b)(1)In this subsection, “air carrier” and “aircraft” have the same meanings given those terms in section 40102(a) of title 49.

(2)An air carrier engaged in transporting mail shall carry without charge on any plane it operates those agents and officers of the Postal Service traveling on official business related to transporting mail by aircraft, as prescribed by regulations of the Secretary of Transportation, on exhibiting credentials.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–272 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1971, 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.

§5007 Free transportation of postal employees