---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 3405"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "3405"
heading: "Markings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/3405"
units:
  - "Part IV — Mail Matter"
  - "Chapter 34 — Armed Forces and Free Postage"
---

# §3405. Markings


All matter relating to blind or other handicapped persons mailed under section [3403](/usc/39/3403.md) or [3404](/usc/39/3404.md) of this title, shall bear the words “Free Matter for the Blind or Handicapped”, or words to that effect specified by the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1), in the upper right-hand corner of the address area.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 758.)

## 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.