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PUBLIC LAW 89-593-SEPT. 20, 1966
[80
STAT.
" (b) Subject to section 4558 of this title, parcels weighing less than ten pounds and. measuring more than eighty-four inches but not more than one hundred inches in length and girth combined are subject to a minimum postage rate equal to the postage rate for a ten-pound parcel for the zone to which the parcel is addressed. "(c) Subject to section 4558 of this title, the postage rate on ^old mailed within Alaska or from Alaska to other States and possessions of the United States, including the Canal Zone and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is 2 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof regardless of zones. "§4557. Postage rates on catalogs " (a) Subject to section 4558 of this title, the rates of postage on fourth-class catalogs, having twenty-four or more pages at least twenty-two of which are printed and weighing sixteen ounces or more but not exceeding ten pounds, are based on the zones described in section 4553 of this title in accordance with the following table: 'CATALOGS Zones " W e i g h t (pounds) Local
1.6 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Cents 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 32 34 36 38 39
1 and 2 Cents 29 30 32 33 35 36 38 39 42 46 48 51 64
3
4
Cents 30 32 33 35 37 39 41 42 46 50 53 57 60
5
Cents 31 33 36 38 40 42 45 46 51 66 60 65 69
6
Cents 33 36 39 42 44 47 50 53 59 64 70 76 81
7
Cents 35 39 42 46 49 63 56 60 67 74 81 88 95
8
Cents 38 42 46 51 55 69 64 68 77 85 94 104 112
Cents 41 46 51 57 62 67 72 77 88 98 109 119 129
"(b) Subject to section 4558 of this title, the rates of postage on catalogs conforming to subsection (a) of this section, when mailed in quantities of not less than three hundred individually addressed pieces at one time and when prepared and mailed in accordance with conditions established by the Postmaster General, consist of a piece rate in addition to a bulk rate per pound, based on the zones described in section 4553 of this title, in accordance with the following table: Piece r a t e
1 and 23 4 5 6 7 8
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Bullc p o u n d rate
Cents
"Zone
Cents 17 21 21 21 21 21 21 22
1.9 3.0 3.6 4.6 5.7 7 1 8.7 10 4
"§4558. Reformation of conditions of mailability " (a) Whenever the Postmaster General finds that, as a continuing situation,— "(1) the acceptance, as fourth-class mail, of mail matter otherwise legally acceptable in the mails is being prevented, or "(2) the revenue from the fourth-class mail service is less than the cost of such service or that the revenue from such service is greater than the cost thereof, or
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