---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 1006"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "1006"
heading: "Right of transfer"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/1006"
units:
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 10 — Employment Within the Postal Service"
---

# §1006. Right of transfer


Officers and employees in the postal career service of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) shall be eligible for promotion or transfer to any other position in the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) or the executive branch of the Government of the United States for which they are qualified. The authority given by this section shall be used to provide a maximum degree of career promotion opportunities for officers and employees and to insure continued improvement of [postal services](/usc/39/102.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 732.)

## Notes

### 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.