---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 3004"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "3004"
heading: "Delivery of mail to persons not residents of the place of address"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/3004"
units:
  - "Part IV — Mail Matter"
  - "Chapter 30 — Nonmailable Matter"
---

# §3004. Delivery of mail to persons not residents of the place of address


Whenever the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) determines that letters or parcels sent in the mail are addressed to places not the residence or regular business address of the person for whom they are intended, to enable the person to escape identification, the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) may deliver the mail only upon identification of the person so addressed.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 747.)

## 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.