Title 39 of the U.S. Code § 3217 - Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries of Postal Union of Americas and Spain
Full text of § 3217 from Title 39 of the United States Code.
§ 3217. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries of Postal Union of Americas and Spain
Correspondence of the members of the diplomatic corps of the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain stationed in the United States may be reciprocally transmitted in the domestic mails free of postage, and be entitled to free registration without right to indemnity in case of loss. The same privilege is accorded consuls and vice consuls when they are discharging the function of consuls of countries stationed in the United States, for official correspondence among themselves, and with the Government of the United States.
(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 755.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective July 1, 1971, pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title.
Free Mailing Privileges Continue Unchanged
Pub. L. 109–435, title V, §505(c), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3236, provided that: "Nothing in this Act [see Tables for classification] or any amendment made by this Act shall affect any free mailing privileges accorded under section 3217 or sections 3403 through 3406 of title 39, United States Code."
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