[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1107 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1107

To protect consumers by eliminating the double postage rule under which 
the Postal Service requires competitors of the Postal Service to charge 
                          above market prices.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 1997

 Mr. Coverdell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To protect consumers by eliminating the double postage rule under which 
the Postal Service requires competitors of the Postal Service to charge 
                          above market prices.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Double Postage Rule Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF THE DOUBLE POSTAGE RULE.

    Section 601(a) of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(a) A letter may be carried out of the mails, if--
            ``(1) the amount paid for private carriage of the letter is 
        $2.00 or more;
            ``(2) the letter is enclosed in an envelope;
            ``(3) the amount of postage which would have been charged 
        on the letter if it had been sent by mail is paid by stamps, or 
        postage meter stamps, on the envelope;
            ``(4) the envelope is properly addressed;
            ``(5) the envelope is so sealed that the letter cannot be 
        taken from it without defacing the envelope;
            ``(6) any stamps on the envelope are canceled in ink by the 
        sender; and
            ``(7) the date of the letter, of its transmission, or 
        receipt by the carrier is endorsed on the envelope in ink.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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