---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 3701"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "3701"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/3701"
units:
  - "Part IV — Mail Matter"
  - "Chapter 37 — Nonpostal Services"
---

# §3701. Purpose


The purpose of this chapter is to enable the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) to increase its net revenues through specific nonpostal [products](/usc/39/102.md?p=6) and services that are expressly authorized by this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–108, title I, § 103(a)(1), Apr. 6, 2022, 136 Stat. 1140.)