Chapter 119. Authorizing the return to the sender or the forwarding of undeliverable second, third, and fourth class mail matter
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CHAP. 119.— An Act Authorizing the return to the sender or the forwarding of undeliverable second, third, and fourth class mail matter. November 19, 1919. [[H. R. 6951](/us/bill/66/hr/6951).] [[Public, No. 92](/us/pl/66/92).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Postal service.Perishable fourth class matter may be forwarded to new address or returned to sender.Vol. 32, p. 1176. That hereafter, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe, fourth-class matter of obvious value which is of a perishable nature may be forwarded to the addressee at another post office charged with the amount of the forwarding postage, and when such matter of a perishable nature is undeliverable to the addressee it may be returned to *Provisos*.Undeliverable second, third, and fourth class mail may be forwarded to new address or returned.the sender charged with the return postage: *Provided*, That other undeliverable matter of the second, third, and fourth classes may be forwarded to the addressee or to such other person as the sender may direct, at another post office, charged with the amount of the forwarding postage, or it may be returned to the sender charged with the Pledge required.return postage, when it bears the sender’s pledge that the postage for forwarding and return will be paid, such postage to be collected 361on delivery: *Provided further*, That when the sender refuses to furnishRestriction it payment not made. such postage in accordance with his pledge, the acceptance from him of further matter bearing such pledge may be refused.
Approved, November 19, 1919.