---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 551.6"
title: "39"
number: "551.6"
heading: "Pricing."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/551.6"
---

# §551.6. Pricing.

- (a) **The Semipostal Authorization Act, as amended by Public Law 107-67, section 652, 115 Stat.** 514 (2001), prescribes that the price of a semipostal stamp is the rate of postage that would otherwise regularly apply, plus a differential of not less than 15 percent. The price of a semipostal stamp shall be an amount that is evenly divisible by five. For purposes of this provision, the First-Class Mail® single-piece stamped first-ounce rate of postage will be considered the rate of postage that would otherwise regularly apply.
- (b) The prices of semipostal stamps are determined by the Governors of the United States Postal Service in accordance with the requirements of [39 U.S.C. 416](/usc/39/416.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[81 FR 23164, Apr. 20, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 101, 201, 203, 401, 403, 404, 410, 414, 416.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 31826, June 12, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[81 FR 23164, Apr. 20, 2016]