---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 261.3"
title: "39"
number: "261.3"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/261.3"
---

# §261.3. Policy.


It is the policy of the Postal Service:

- (a) To, as appropriate, create, preserve, protect and disclose records which contain adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, operations, procedures, activities and transactions of the Postal Service,
- (b) To reduce to an absolute minimum the records holdings of the Postal Service by strict adherence to established records retention schedules.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 45721, Oct. 2, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 51223, Aug. 31, 1979]

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 401.

### Amendments

[40 FR 45721, Oct. 2, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 51223, Aug. 31, 1979]