---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 2901"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "2901"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/2901"
units:
  - "Part III — Modernization and Fiscal Administration"
  - "Chapter 29 — Property Management"
---

# §2901. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Excess property.—** The term “excess property” means any [postal property](#2) that the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) determines is not required to meet the needs or responsibilities of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1).
- (2) **Postal property.—** The term “postal property” means any property owned or leased by the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1).
- (3) **Underutilized property.—** The term “underutilized property” means a portion or the entirety of any real property that is [postal property](#2), including any improvements, that is used—
  - (A) irregularly or intermittently by the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) for program purposes of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1); or
  - (B) for program purposes that can be satisfied only with a portion of the property.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–318, § 4(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1613.)