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Title 39, Postal ServiceRelease 119-102

§2009 Annual Budget

Title 39 › PART III — MODERNIZATION AND FISCAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 20 — FINANCE › § 2009

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Postal Service must prepare a yearly budget plan and send it to the Office of Management and Budget under the rules the President sets about timing, form, and how it is put together. The plan must be a business-style budget or operations plan that allows flexibility for emergencies and other needs. It must show estimates for the current and next fiscal years and the actual results for the last year. The plan must include basic financial statements (condition; income and expenses; surplus or deficit; sources and uses of funds), estimates by major activities, administrative costs, and borrowings. It must also list amounts requested to be appropriated under subsections (b) and (c) of section 2401 and the amount the Office of Inspector General requests under section 415(f) of title 5. The President must include those amounts, with recommendations but not changed, in the budget sent to Congress under section 1105 of title 31.

Full Legal Text

Title 39, §2009

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The Postal Service shall cause to be prepared annually a budget program which shall be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, under such rules and regulations as the President may establish as to the date of submission, the form and content, the classifications of data, and the manner in which such budget program shall be prepared and presented. The budget program shall be a business-type budget, or plan of operations, with due allowance given to the need for flexibility, including provision for emergencies and contingencies, in order that the Postal Service may properly carry out its activities as authorized by law. The budget program shall contain estimates of the financial condition and operations of the Postal Service for the current and ensuing fiscal years and the actual condition and results of operation for the last completed fiscal year. Such budget program shall include a statement of financial condition, a statement of income and expense, an analysis of surplus or deficit, a statement of sources and application of funds, and such other supplementary statements and information as are necessary or desirable to make known the financial condition and operations of the Postal Service. Such statements shall include estimates of operations by major types of activities, together with estimates of administrative expenses and estimates of borrowings. The budget program shall also include separate statements of the amounts which (1) the Postal Service requests to be appropriated under subsections (b) and (c) of section 2401, and (2) the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service requests to be appropriated, out of the Postal Service Fund, under section 415(f) of title 5. The President shall include these amounts, with his recommendations but without revision, in the budget transmitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 31.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–286, which directed substitution of “section 415(f) of title 5,” for “section 8G(f) of the Inspector General Act of 1978,”, was executed by substituting “section 415(f) of title 5” for “section 8G(f) of the Inspector General Act of 1978” to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the intervening amendment by Pub. L. 117–108, which had struck out the comma after “1978”. See below. Pub. L. 117–108 inserted “and” before “(2)” and struck out “, and (3) the Postal Regulatory Commission requests to be appropriated, out of the Postal Service Fund, under section 504(d) of this title” after “Inspector General Act of 1978”. 2006—Pub. L. 109–435 substituted “The budget program shall also include separate statements of the amounts which (1) the Postal Service requests to be appropriated under subsections (b) and (c) of section 2401, (2) the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service requests to be appropriated, out of the Postal Service Fund, under section 8G(f) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, and (3) the Postal Regulatory Commission requests to be appropriated, out of the Postal Service Fund, under section 504(d) of this title.” for “The budget program shall also include separate statements of the amounts which the Postal Service requests to be appropriated under subsections (b) and (c) of section 2401 of this title.” 1982—Pub. L. 97–258 substituted “section 1105 of title 31” for “section 11 of title 31”. 1974—Pub. L. 93–328 required the budget program to include separate statements of the amounts which the Postal Service requests to be appropriated under section 2401(b) and (c) of this title and the President to include these amounts in the budget transmitted to Congress.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2006 Amendment;

Savings Provision

sAmendment by Pub. L. 109–435 applicable with respect to fiscal years beginning on or after Oct. 1, 2008, subject to

Savings Provision

s, see section 603(d) of Pub. L. 109–435, set out as a note under section 504 of this title.

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. Operations of Inspector General as Major Type of Activity for Budget Purposes Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(f) [title VI, § 662(a)(3)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–314, 3009–379, provided that: “For purposes of the fifth sentence of section 2009 of title 39, United States Code, the operations of the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service shall be considered a major type of activity.”

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Citation

39 U.S.C. § 2009

Title 39, Postal Service

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102