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PUBLIC LAW 85-426~MAY 27, 1958
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(2) The acceptance, transportation, and delivery of first-class mail constitutes a preferred service of the postal establishment and, therefore, the postage for first-class mail should be sufficient to cover (A) the entire amount of the expenses allocated to firstclass mail in accordance with this title and (B) an additional amount representing the fair value of all extraordinary and preferential services, facilities, and factors relating thereto., (3) Those services, elements of service, and facilities rendered and provided by the postal establishment in accordance with law, including services having public service aspects, which, in whole or in part, are held and considered by the Congress from time to time to be public services for the purposes of this title shall be administered on the following basis: (A) the sum of such public service items as determined by the Congress should be assumed directly by the Federal Government and paid directly out of the general fund of the Treasury and should not constitute direct charges in the form of rates and fees upon any user or class of users of such public services, or of the mails generally; and (B) nothing contained in any provision of this title should be construed as indicating any mtention on the part of the Congress (i) that such public services, or any of them, should be limited or restricted or (ii) to derogate in any way from the need and desirability thereof in the public interest. (4) Postal rates and fees shall be adjusted from time to time as may be required to produce the amount of revenue approximately equal to the total cost of operating the postal establishment less the amount deemed to be attributable to the performance of public services under section 104(b) of this title. I D E N T I F I C A T I O N OF A N D APPROPRIATIONS FOR P U B L I C SERVICES
SEC. 104. (a) The following shall be considered to be public services for the purposes of this title— ' (1) the total loss resulting from the transmission of matter in the mails free of postage or at reduced rates of postage as provided by statute, including the following: (A) paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of section 202 of the 43 Stat. 1066. Act of February 28, 1925 (39 U.S.C. 283 (a)(3)), relating to reduced rates of postage on newspapers or periodicals of certain nonprofit organizations; 19 Stat. 335. (B) sections 5 and 6 of the Act of March 3, 1877 (39 U.S.C. 321), relating to official mail matter of the Pan American Union sent free through the mails; (C) section 25 of the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended 20 Stat. 361. (39 U.S.C. 286), and subsection (b) of section 2 of the Act 65 Stat. 673.. of October 30, 1951 (39 U.S.C. 289a (b)), relating to freein-county mailing privileges; 39 USC 331. (p) the Act of April 27, 1904 (33 Stat. 313), the last paragraph under the heading "Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General" contained in the first section of the Act of 39 USC 331. August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 551), and the Joint Kesolution of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 668; Pub. Res., No. 33, Sixty-eighth Congress), as contained in the Act of October 14, 1941 (55 Stat. 737; Public Law 270, Seventy-seventh Congress), and as further amended by the Act of September 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 690), relating to free postage and reduced postage rates on reading matter and other articles for the blind (39 U.S.C. 331);
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