Chapter 347. To extend the insurance and collect-on-delivery service to third-class mail, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 347.— An Act To extend the insurance and collect-on-delivery service to third-class mail, and for other purposes. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 4442](/us/bill/68/hr/4442).][[Public, No. 269](/us/68/pl/269).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Postal service.Vol. 37, p. 558. That the requirement of section 8 of the Act of August 24, 1912, making653appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for theExtension to lost third-class domestic mail of insurance and collect-on-delivery service. fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, pages 557, 558, and 559), applicable to fourth-class (parcel post) mail:
“That the Postmaster General shall make provision by regulation for the indemnification of shippers for shipment injured or lost, by insurance or otherwise, and when desired for the collection on delivery of the postage and price of the article shipped, fixing such charges as may be necessary to pay the cost of such additional service,” is hereby extended to cover third-class domestic mail. Approved, June 7, 1924.