---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 3006"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "3006"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 106–168, title I, § 105(b)(1), Dec. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1811"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/3006"
units:
  - "Part IV — Mail Matter"
  - "Chapter 30 — Nonmailable Matter"
---

# [§3006. Repealed. Pub. L. 106–168, title I, § 105(b)(1), Dec. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1811 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 747, prohibited persons from obtaining or attempting to obtain remittances of money or property of any kind through the mail for an obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy, or vile thing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective 120 days after Dec. 12, 1999, see section 111 of Pub. L. 106–168, set out as an Effective Date of 1999 Amendment note under section 3001 of this title.