49 U.S.C. § 41907
Weighing mail
United States · Title 49 — TRANSPORTATION · Status: effective
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- 49 U.S.C. § 41907, Weighing mail, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/490933
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The United States Postal Service may weigh mail transported by aircraft between places in Alaska and make statistical and administrative computations necessary in the interest of mail service. When the Secretary of Transportation decides that additional or more frequent weighings of mail are advisable or necessary to carry out this part, the Postal Service shall provide the weighings, but it is not required to provide them for continuous periods of more than 30 days.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to transportation, as subtitles II, III, and V-X of title 49, United States Code, "Transportation", and to make other technical improvements in the Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Air Carriage of International Mail ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally