---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 2201"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "2201"
heading: "No postal equipment or supplies manufactured by convict labor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/2201"
units:
  - "Part III — Modernization and Fiscal Administration"
  - "Chapter 22 — Convict Labor"
---

# §2201. No postal equipment or supplies manufactured by convict labor


Except as provided in [chapter 307](/usc/18/chptIII/ch307.md) of title 18, the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) may not make a contract for the purchase of equipment or supplies to be manufactured by convict labor.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 742.)

## 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.