---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 208"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "208"
heading: "Reservation of powers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/208"
units:
  - "Part I — General"
  - "Chapter 2 — Organization"
---

# §208. Reservation of powers


Congress reserves the power to alter, amend, or repeal any or all of the sections of this title, but no such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall impair the obligation of any contract made by the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) under any power conferred by this title.


## Source credit

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

## 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.