mail preferred rates

second-class mail preferred rates Sec. 103. (a) Section 4358 of title 39, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 81 Stat. 616 “(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the rate of postage on publications admitted as second-class mail when addressed for delivery within the county in which they are published and entered is as follows: “[In cents] “Mailed during calendar year 1968 Mailed during calendar year 1969 Mailed after Dec. 31, 1969 Rate per pound 1.3 1.4 1.5 Minimum charge per piece 2 2 .2.”; (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: “(d) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the rates of postage on publications mailed in accordance with section 4359(a) of this title, of qualified nonprofit organizations, are as follows: “[In cents] “During calendar year 1968 During calendar year 1969 During calendar year 1970 During calendar year 1971 During calendar year 1972 During calendar year 1973 and thereafter Rate per pound: Advertising portion: Zones 1 and 2 2.35 2.9 3.45 4.0 4.55 5.1 Zone 3 2.55 3.3 4.05 4.8 5.55 6.3 Zone 4 2.95 4.1 5.25 6.4 7.55 8.7 Zone 5 3.35 4.9 6.45 8.0 9.55 11.1 Zone 6 3.5 5.2 6.9 8.6 10.3 12.0 Zone 7 3.5 5.2 6.9 8.6 10.3 12.0 Zone 8 3.5 5.2 6.9 8.6 10.3 12.0 Nonadvertising portion 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 Minimum charge per piece .13 .15 .2 .2 .2 .2 “(2) The postage on an issue of a publication referred to in paragraph (1), the advertising portion of which does not exceed 10 per centum of such issue, shall be computed without regard to the rates applicable to the advertising portion prescribed in such paragraph. “(e) The postage on classroom publications, mailed in accordance with section 4359(a) of this title, is 60 per centum of the postage computed in accordance with section 4359(b) of this title. “(f) The postage shall be 4.2 cents per pound on the advertising portion of publications (1) which are mailed for delivery in zones 1 and 2 in accordance with section 4359 (a) of this title, (2) which are devoted to promoting the science of agriculture, and (3) when the total number of copies of the publications furnished during any twelve-month period to subscribers residing in rural areas consists of at least 70 per centum of the total number of copies distributed by any means for any purpose. “(g) In lieu of the minimum charge per piece prescribed by section 4359(b) of this title, the minimum charge per piece for publications (other than publications to which subsections (d) and (e) of this section are applicable), when fewer than five thousand copies are mailed outside the county of publication, is 0.6 cent per piece when mailed during the calendar year 1968, 0.7 cent per piece when mailed during the calendar year 1969, and 0.8 cent per piece when mailed thereafter. “(h) The publisher of a classroom publication, of a publication referred to in subsection (f) of this section, or of a publication of a nonprofit organization, before being entitled to the rates for the publications, shall furnish such proof of qualifications as the Postmaster General prescribes. 81 Stat. 617 “(i) For the purposes of the application of this section with respect to each publication having original entry at an independent incorporated city, an incorporated city which is situated entirely within a county, or which is situated contiguous to one or more counties in the same State, but which is politically independent of such county or counties, shall be considered to be within and a part of the county with which it is principally contiguous. “(j) As used in this section— “(1) ‘classroom publication’ means a religious, educational, or scientific publication entered as second-class mail and designed specifically for use in classrooms or in religious instruction classes; “(2) ‘a publication of a qualified nonprofit organization’ means a publication published by and in the interest of one of the following types of organizations or associations if it is not organized for profit and none of its net income inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual: Religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans’, fraternal, and associations of rural electric cooperatives, program announcements or guides published by an educational radio or television agency of a State or political subdivision thereof or by a nonprofit educational radio or television station, and not to exceed one publication published by the official highway or development agency of a State which meets all of the requirements of section 4354 and which contains no advertising; “(3) ‘zones’ means the eight zones described in section 4553, or prescribed pursuant to section 4558, of this title.”; and (3) by amending the section heading to read as follows: “§4358. Rates of postage; preferred” (b) The table of contents of chapter 63 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by striking out— “4358. Postage rates within county of publication.”. and inserting in lieu thereof— “4358. Rates of postage; preferred.”.