---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 207"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "207"
heading: "Seal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/207"
units:
  - "Part I — General"
  - "Chapter 2 — Organization"
---

# §207. Seal


The seal of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) shall be filed by the Board in the Office of the Secretary of State, judicially noticed, affixed to all commissions of officers of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1), and used to authenticate records of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 722.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 16, 1971, pursuant to Resolution No. 71–5 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.