§3217 — Title 39 Postal Service | U.S. Code

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Diplomats from countries in the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain who are posted in the United States can send official mail inside the U.S. without paying postage. They can register that mail for free but cannot get compensation if it is lost; consuls and vice consuls doing consular duties get the same free mail and registration for official mail with each other and with the U.S. government.

Title 39, §3217

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Correspondence of the members of the diplomatic corps of the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain stationed in the United States may be reciprocally transmitted in the domestic mails free of postage, and be entitled to free registration without right to indemnity in case of loss. The same privilege is accorded consuls and vice consuls when they are discharging the function of consuls of countries stationed in the United States, for official correspondence among themselves, and with the Government of the United States.

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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. Free Mailing Privileges Continue Unchanged Pub. L. 109–435, title V, § 505(c), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3236, provided that: “Nothing in this Act [see Tables for classification] or any amendment made by this Act shall affect any free mailing privileges accorded under section 3217 or sections 3403 through 3406 of title 39, United States Code.”

§3217 Correspondence of Members of Diplomatic Corps and Consuls of Countries of Postal Union of Americas and Spain

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Title 39, §3217

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