---
kind: "unit"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
key: "ptIV/ch32"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 32"
heading: "Penalty and Franked Mail"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/ptIV-ch32"
sections_count: 20
---

# Chapter 32 — Penalty and Franked Mail

Title 39 — Postal Service › Part IV — Mail Matter

## Sections

- [§3201. Definitions](/usc/39/3201.md)
- [§3202. Penalty mail](/usc/39/3202.md)
- [§3203. Endorsements on penalty covers](/usc/39/3203.md)
- [§3204. Restrictions on use of penalty mail](/usc/39/3204.md)
- [§3205. Accounting for penalty covers](/usc/39/3205.md)
- [§3206. Reimbursement for penalty mail service](/usc/39/3206.md)
- [§3207. Limit of weight of penalty mail; postage on overweight matter](/usc/39/3207.md)
- [§3208. Shipment by most economical means](/usc/39/3208.md)
- [§3209. Executive departments to supply information](/usc/39/3209.md)
- [§3210. Franked mail transmitted by the Vice President, Members of Congress, and congressional officials](/usc/39/3210.md)
- [§3211. Public documents](/usc/39/3211.md)
- [§3212. Congressional Record under frank of Members of Congress](/usc/39/3212.md)
- [§3213. Seeds and reports from Department of Agriculture](/usc/39/3213.md)
- [§3214. Mailing privilege of former President; surviving spouse of former President](/usc/39/3214.md)
- [§3215. Lending or permitting use of frank unlawful](/usc/39/3215.md)
- [§3216. Reimbursement for franked mailings](/usc/39/3216.md)
- [§3217. Correspondence of members of diplomatic corps and consuls of countries of Postal Union of Americas and Spain](/usc/39/3217.md)
- [§3218. Franked mail for survivors of Members of Congress](/usc/39/3218.md)
- [§3219. Mailgrams](/usc/39/3219.md)
- [§3220. Use of official mail in the location and recovery of missing children](/usc/39/3220.md)