---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 3663"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "3663"
heading: "Appellate review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/3663"
units:
  - "Part IV — Mail Matter"
  - "Chapter 36 — Postal Rates, Classes, and Services"
  - "Subchapter V — Postal Services, Complaints, and Judicial Review"
---

# §3663. Appellate review


A person, including the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1), adversely affected or aggrieved by a final order or decision of the Postal Regulatory Commission may, within 30 days after such order or decision becomes final, institute proceedings for review thereof by filing a petition in the [United States](/usc/39/3702.md?p=7) Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court shall review the order or decision in accordance with [section 706 of title 5](/usc/5/706.md), and chapter 158 and [section 2112 of title 28](/usc/28/2112.md), on the basis of the record before the Commission.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–435, title II, § 205, Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3217.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3663, added Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(h) [title VI, § 648(a)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–480, 2681–527, related to annual report on international services, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 109–435, title II, § 205, Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3216.