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82 Stat. 1244.

PUBLIC LAW 91-375-AUG. 12, 1970

[84 STAT.

"§ 404. Specific powers "•'AVithout limitation of the generality of its powers, the Postal Service shall have the following specific powers, among others: "(1) to provide for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning, and holding of mail, and for the disposition of undeliverable mail; "(2) to prescribe, in accordance with this title, the amount of postage and the manner in which it is to be paid; "(3) to determine the need for post offices, postal and training facilities and equipment, and to provide such offices, facilities, and equipment as it determines are needed; "(4) to provide and sell postage stamps and other stamped paper, cards, and envelopes and to provide such other evidences of payment of postage and fees as may be necessary or desirable; " (5) to provide pihilatelic services; "•'(6) to provide, establish, change, or abolish special nonpostal O - similar services; T ''(7) to investigate postal offenses and civil matters relating to the Postal Service; "'(8) to offer and pay r-ewards for information and services in connection with violations of the postal laws, and, unless a different disposal is expressly prescribed, to pay one-half of all penalties and forfeitures imposed for violations of law affecting the Postal Service, its r-evenues, or property, to the person informling for the same, and to pay the other one-half into the Postal Service F u n d; and "'(9) to authorize the issuance of a substitute check for a lost, stolen, or desti'oyed check of the Postal Service. "§ 405. Printing of illustrations of United States postage stamps "(a) When requested by the Postal Service, the Public Printer shall print, as a public document for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, illustrations in black and white or in color of postage stamps of the United States, together with such descriptive, historical, and philatelic information with regard to the stamps as the Postal Service deems suitable. '' (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 505 of title 44, stereotype or electrotype plates, or duplicates thereof, used in the publications authorized to be printed by this section may not be sold or otherwise disposed of. "§ 406. Postal services at Armed Forces installations ''(a) The Postal Service may establish branch post offices at camps. l)osts, bases, or stations of the Armed Forces and at defense oi- other strategic installations. "'(b) The Secretaries of Defense and Transportation shall make arrangements with the Postal Service to perform postal services through personnel designated by them at or through branch post offices established under subsection (a) of this section. "§ 407. International postal arrangements " (a) The Postal Service, with the consent of the President, may negotiate and conclude postal treaties or conventions, and may establish the rates of postage or other charges on mail matter conveyed between the United States and other countries. The decisions of the Postal Service construing or interpreting the provisions of any treaty or convention which has been or may be negotiated and concluded shall, if approved by the President, be conclusive upon all officers of the Government of the United States.

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