fourth-class mail

fourth-class mail Sec. 206. (a) Section 204 (a) of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1948 (39 U. S. C. 292a (a)), as amended, is amended by striking out the words “over eight ounces” wherever they appear and inserting in lieu thereof “sixteen ounces or over”. (b) Sections 204 (d) and (e) of such Act (39 U. S. C. 292a (d) and (e)) are amended to read as follows: “(d) The following materials when in parcels not exceeding seventy pounds in weight may be sent at the postage rate of 9 cents for the first pound and 5 cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, and this rate shall continue until otherwise provided by the Congress: (1) books permanently bound for preservation consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for students’ notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; (2) sixteen-millimeter films and sixteen-millimeter film catalogs except when sent to commercial theaters; (3) printed music whether in bound form or in sheet form; (4) printed objective test materials and accessories thereto used by or in behalf of educational institutions in the testing of ability, aptitude, achievement, interests, and other mental and personal qualities with or without answers, test scores, or identifying information recorded thereon in writing or by mark; (5) phonograph recordings; and (6) manuscripts for books, periodical articles, and music. “(e) (1) The following materials when in parcels not exceeding seventy pounds in weight when loaned or exchanged between (A)schools, colleges, or universities and (B) public libraries, religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans’,72 Stat. 141 or fraternal organizations or associations not organized for profit and none of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual, or between such organizations and their members or readers or borrowers, shall be charged with postage at the rate of 4 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound or fraction thereof, except that the rates now or hereafter prescribed for third- or fourth-class matter shall apply in every case where such rate is lower than the rate prescribed in this subsection, and this rate shall continue until otherwise provided by the Congress: (i) books consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for students’ notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; (ii) printed music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; (iii) bound volumes of academic theses in typewritten or other duplicated form and bound volumes of periodicals; (iv) phonograph recordings; and (v) other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts. “(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to sixteen-millimeter films, filmstrips, transparencies for projection and slides, microfilms, sound recordings, and catalogs of such materials when sent in parcels not exceeding seventy pounds in weight to or from (A) schools, colleges, or universities and (B) public libraries, religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans’, or fraternal organizations or associations, not organized for profit and none of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual. “(3) Public libraries, organizations, or associations, before being entitled to the rates specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, shall furnish to the Postmaster General, under such regulations as he may prescribe, satisfactory evidence that none of their net income inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual.” (c) (1) The first section of the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the size and weight limitations on fourth-class (parcel post) mail”, approved October 24, 1951 (65 Stat. 610; 39 U. S. C. 240a), is amended by striking out the words “over eight ounces” each place they appear therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words “sixteen ounces or over”. (2) Section 207 (a) of the Act of February 28, 1925 (39 U. S. C. 240), as amended, is amended by striking out the words “in excess of eight ounces” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “sixteen ounces or over”.