---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 501.9"
title: "39"
number: "501.9"
heading: "Demonstration or test Postage Evidencing Systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/501.9"
---

# §501.9. Demonstration or test Postage Evidencing Systems.

- (a) A demonstration or test postage evidencing system is any system that produces an image that replicates a postage indicium for which the Postal Service has not received payment for postage. The following procedures must be followed to implement controls over demonstration or test Postage Evidencing Systems:
  - (1) A demonstration or test Postage Evidencing System may print only specimen or test indicia. A specimen or test indicia must clearly indicate that the indicia does not represent valid postage.
  - (2) A demonstration or test Postage Evidencing System must be recorded as such on internal provider inventory records and must be tracked by model number, serial number, and physical location.
  - (3) A demonstration or test Postage Evidencing System must remain under the provider's direct control. A demonstration or test Postage Evidencing System may not be left in the possession of a customer under any circumstance.
- (b) All indicia printed by a demonstration or test Postage Evidencing System must be collected and destroyed daily.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 410, 2601, 2605; Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (Pub. L. 95-452, as amended); 5 U.S.C. App. 3.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 65733, Nov. 9, 2006, unless otherwise noted.