Highway post office contracts

§ 6352. Highway post office contracts (a) The Postmaster General shall obtain contracts for highway post office service in accordance with section 5 of title 41, for terms not in excess of six years. (b) The Postmaster General in contracts for highway post office service may provide for— (1) increasing or decreasing the mileage; (2) increasing or decreasing the hours of service required; (3) other service changes; (4) the readjustment and compensation either upward or downward to reflect the service changes and increased or decreased costs attributable to changed conditions occurring during the contract term over which the Postmaster General or the contractor have no control and which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time the original bid was made or the proposal for renewal filed; (5) the imposition or remission of fines and penalties by the Postmaster General for delinquencies in the performance of the contract; and (6) other matters deemed appropriate by him. (c) Each contract shall provide for its cancellation by the Postmaster General and may provide for an indemnity payment by the Postmaster General in the event of such a cancellation.