§1696. Private express for letters and packets — Inbound Citations

Citations to 18 U.S.C. § 1696 as a whole

• 39 U.S.C. § 409(e)(1)

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  (1) To the extent that the Postal Service, or other Federal agency acting on behalf of or in concert with the Postal Service, engages in conduct with respect to any product which is not reserved to the United States under section 1696 of title 18, the Postal Service or other Federal agency (as the case may be)—

  (A) shall not be immune under any doctrine of sovereign immunity from suit in Federal court by any person for any violation of Federal law by such agency or any officer or employee thereof; and

  (B) shall be considered to be a person (as defined in subsection (a) of the first section of the Clayton Act) for purposes of—

  (i) the antitrust laws (as defined in such subsection); and

  (ii) section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to the extent that such section 5 applies to unfair methods of competition.

  For purposes of the preceding sentence, any private carriage of mail allowable by virtue of section 601 shall not be considered a service reserved to the United States under section 1696 of title 18.
• 39 U.S.C. § 3642(b)(2)

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  (2) A product covered by the postal monopoly shall not be subject to transfer under this section from the market-dominant category of mail. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term “product covered by the postal monopoly” means any product the conveyance or transmission of which is reserved to the United States under section 1696 of title 18, subject to the same exception as set forth in the last sentence of section 409(e)(1).