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[CITE: 39USC5007]

 
                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                     PART V--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL
 
                           CHAPTER 50--GENERAL
 
Sec. 5007. Free transportation of postal employees

    (a) Each person or carrier engaged in the transportation of mail 
shall carry on any vessel, train, motor vehicle, or aircraft he 
operates, upon exhibiting their credentials and without extra charge 
therefor, persons on duty in charge of the mails or when traveling to 
and from such duty.
    (b)(1) In this subsection, ``air carrier'' and ``aircraft'' have the 
same meanings given those terms in section 40102(a) of title 49.
    (2) An air carrier engaged in transporting mail shall carry without 
charge on any plane it operates those agents and officers of the Postal 
Service traveling on official business related to transporting mail by 
aircraft, as prescribed by regulations of the Secretary of 
Transportation, on exhibiting credentials.

(Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 768; Pub. L. 103-272, 
Sec. 4(g)(1), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1364.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-272 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).
