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[CITE: 39USC5212]

 
                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                     PART V--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL
 
          CHAPTER 52--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL BY SURFACE CARRIER
 
Sec. 5212. Special contracts

    The Postal Service may enter into special contracts with any carrier 
or person, without advertising, for bids and for periods not in excess 
of 4 years. It may contract to pay lower rates or compensation or, where 
in its judgment conditions warrant, higher rates or compensation than 
those determined or fixed by the Board. The fact that the Board has not 
prescribed rates or compensation for the carrier involved, under section 
5207 of this title, shall not preclude execution of a contract under 
this section. Such contracts may be negotiated only after reasonable 
notice has been posted in advance in post offices on the post roads to 
be served, and other carriers or persons have been given an opportunity 
to offer to negotiate for the transportation of mail.

(Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 771; Pub. L. 104-88, title III, 
Sec. 307(14), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 946.)


                               Amendments

    1995--Pub. L. 104-88 substituted ``Board'' for ``Commission'' in two 
places.


                    Effective Date of 1995 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-88 effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of 
Pub. L. 104-88, set out as an Effective Date note under section 701 of 
Title 49, Transportation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5208 of this title.
