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ADDENDUM
REC #1 HATONN

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1990 7:45 A.M. YEAR 3 DAY 316

Dharma, Hatonn present in love and light of radiance. There will come into your attention this day, things which will be painful and cause great questions regarding mankind.

In the heat of changes the most prevalent one emotion is frothing forth like the evil disease it is--hate spawned of envy and resentment. The fires scat­tered about--the one in Santa Barbara for instance--are started by ones so filled with hate that they cannot help but be consumed.

Man is angry unto irrationality at that which is consuming him and he sees no hope; no way to stop the demon which is devouring him inch by tortuous inch. WE SHALL ADD TO THE INFORMATION WHICH WILL SET YOUR PEOPLE FREE. MAN WILL AGAIN BE ABLE TO COME INTO COMMUNITY AS YOU JOIN TO FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE DRAGON.

As truth spreads the uproar will become thunder across the land and then, we shall have a different kind of problem. To replace tyranny with another and worse form of anarchy is unthinkable. It is like curing AIDS; if you do not cure the behavior which causes the disease, you will NOT find the cure--for the cure comes from within and cannot flourish in the presence of hate and evil. You have a wondrously superb system to take the reins of government instantly, therefore, there is no need for anarchy. Anarchy comes from the lacking of a system to replace that which is torn asunder. You will move back into a system of near perfection in its structure. The "revolution" should re­turn you to stability instead of chaos. Bear the anticipation of reclamation ever as thine goal and the rest shall fall into balance.

Yes, chela, your perception is correct; the next major enlightenment whereby action can be taken is to get truth in one more format into the public attention and then join with petitions and demand that the Federal Reserve be dis­solved. It was the beginning of the downfall and entrapment which has led to all the remaining usurpation of your Constitution, brought the taxes without your input and has corrupted the entire governmental and social system--the bankers set forth to control and own the world and they have succeeded.

However--they have NOT YET MANAGED TO TAKE THE CONSTITUTION FROM YOU THE PEOPLE; ALBEIT A VERY THIN THREAD WHICH HOLDS YOU AFLOAT. RETURN YOUR GOVERNMENT AND SYSTEM UNTO THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND OF THE PEOPLE AND YE SHALL PREVAIL AND TRUTH AND GOD-NESS CAN SPREAD ACROSS THE NATIONS IN WONDROUS BROTHERHOOD INSTEAD OF THE ENSLAVING GLOBAL CONTROL BY THE EVIL CONSPIRATORS. THE JOURNEY WILL NOT BE EASY--BUT IT SHALL BE DONE FOR IT IS OF GOD. WALK IN BEAUTY AND PEACE THIS DAY THAT OUR WORK MAY FLOW IN ABUNDANCE AND REACH OUT AND TOUCH OUR BRETHREN

Please note what your president has done. He has "forgiven" over 15 billion dollars of Latin American debt---for what? With restrictions that the nations respond to the demands of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. How many noticed the deadly embrace as he projected something which "sounded" so kind and good--a "gentler nation"! That is pouring those poor countries from the frying pan into the pits of the fire storm. Weep for your nations and your peoples and then allow us to get on with our truth for time is so brief.

To those who ask of me personal input, please bear with us for we are so lim­ited by human function. To ones who cannot find peace in the work and placement, ye shall have to find peace within and hear the Master's voice for Hatonn becomes abrupt in the clamor for metaphysical nonsense when your nation flounders on the brink of destruction from which she will never recover if she is not revived in the truth of the Constitution life DNA. The life-flow of a nation and society is based on the DNA structure of her very life. Yours is the wondrous Constitution set forth in the presence of God. It had flaws for man was man and had great lessons to be learned. He abused his brothers of the native peoples of God and he wrote loopholes to allow growth out of slav­ery but it was the best ever brought forth to guide and preserve a nation; even then it was not the Constitution, it was man making his bigoted translation of the laws--and you have allowed of it to be drawn and quartered. YOU ARE FACE TO FACE WITH YOUR ARMAGEDDON, MY BELOVED BROTHERS--YOU ARE FACE TO FACE WITH THINE ENEMY; HOW SHALL YE RESPOND? GOD AWAITS, GIVES YOU INSTRUCTIONS AND WALKS EVER WITH YOU--WHAT WILL YOU DO?

You will regain your honor and your Godly kingdom through the use of these roadmaps being brought forth unto you--will you use them? Or, will you de­sire to simply continue to sit upon thine assets trying to hold to all thine "stuff' while you "raise vibrations to ascend". Forget it--ascension is the B-word in this instance, for you will save thine assets by getting up off of them and bending your backs unto the work at hand. Further, if you sit upon your assets in the pathway; ye shall be rolled right over as the rubble in the trail is pushed aside. NOBODY AND NO THING IS GOING TO SWOOP DOWN FROM ANYWHERE TO SAVE YOUR ASSETS OR SNATCH YOU OFF TO SOME HOLY VAPOROUS CITY OF GOLDEN STREETS. YOU ARE GOING TO PUT-TO AND REBUILD GOD'S KINGDOM FOR WE HAVE COME TO WORK WITH YOU ONES TO RECLAIM OF THIS WONDROUS CREATION CALLED EARTH. MOTHER/FATHER CREATOR/CREATION--SHALL RECLAIM AND BE RECLAIMED, HEALED AND PUT AGAIN INTO ORDER AND YOU ONES SHALL DO OF IT OR PERISH--NO BIG SNATCH-OFF TO RELIEVE YOU OF FURTHER RESPONSIBILITY. WHEN THE BIG LIFT-OFF COMES IT WILL NOT BE AS THE WONDROUS METAPHYSICS GURUS ARE TELLING YOU, MY BROTHERS--AND A LOT OF DISAPPOINTED AND LAZY DRIFTERS IN THE MINDLESS VOID OF "WAITING AND BEING" SHALL BE WRINGING THEIR HANDS IN SELFISH DEBILITATION AS THEY WAVE GOOD-BY AND REALIZE THE EVIL PRINCE HAS DONE THEM IN--AGAIN!

HOW DO I KNOW? I AM ATON! I AND MINE HOSTS HAVE COME TO GIVE YOU TRUTH AND SHOW YOU THE WAY--WHAT YOU DO IS YOUR CHOICE. SO BE IT!

* * * * * *

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE AND POSTAL RATES

This is basically for the purpose of outlaying the situation with your U.S. Postal Service, give you letter of the law, your Constitutional rights and ask you to step out and take a stand with others who are "DOING SOMETHING".

There are still great arguments going on but responses are very sporadic from the manipulators for, you see, without the "new" Constitution, there is not a LAWFUL leg to stand on. The Postal Service is exactly like everything else in your Constitution--it has been putrefied and poisoned--while being stolen from you as a people. OPEN YOUR EYES! NO, TO FIX IT WILL NOT CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT--IT WILL BRING A SYSTEM IN TOTAL CHAOS AGAIN INTO ORDER AND PROSPERITY.

THE LIE IS THAT EVERYONE HAS MUCH TO LOSE. THE CONSPIRATORS AND GOVERNMENT MANIPULATORS TELL YOU THAT IF YOU RECOVER THESE THINGS THE NATION WILL FALL AND THERE WILL BE DEPRESSION AND UNEMPLOYMENT, AND, AND, AND. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW? THE ONLY ONES WHO WILL NOT BENEFIT BEYOND MEASURE ARE THE HEINOUS TREASON-MONGERS WHO HAVE SOLD YOU OUT. THE BANKERS WILL PAY AND THE GREEDY AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS WILL TUMBLE DOWN--BUT YOUR GOVERNMENT WILL FIND STABILITY AND YOUR COUNTRY WILL BLOSSOM AGAIN AS THE LOTUS INTO BLOOM AND MAGNIFICENT ORDER. HOPELESS? OH NO--IF YOU ACT WHILE THERE IS YET TIME AND RECLAIM THE CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTION AS LAID FORTH BY YOUR FOUNDING FATHERS--YE SHALL COME INTO PROSPERITY AS YE HAVE NEVER BEFORE DREAMED. YOU ARE PEOPLE OF THE LIE--AWAKEN AND TAKE UP YOUR SHIELD AND LET US RECLAIM THINE KINGDOM.

SECURITY
I shall hold the author of the following letter, etc., in security for the time be­ing. We shall give him great honor later; but as I bring this forth in the Jour­nal, he will be on the hit list and we will not place this person into that type of jeopardy. I will, however, reprint his letter of the moment's focus and note that the work is flowing from California. Not just from California, but this will suffice for now. I shall also list the ones to whom the letter is sent so that you ones can adapt yours accordingly as the need arises. AND PLEASE, MAKE THE NEED ARISE!

Dharma, simply quote the information, please, with names and addresses but leave the sender in security.

COPY:

11 May 1990

From:
Mr. Yre CmUppance
XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX

To:

Congressman Jim Bates
430 Davidson Street, Ste. A
Chula Vista, California 92010-2496

Copies to:

Senator Alan Cranston
United States Senate, Suite 112
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Senator Pete Wilson
Untied States Senate, Suite 170
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Margaret Sellers
General Manager/Postmaster
U.S. Postal Service
2535 Midway Drive
San Diego, California 92138

Beate M. Boyd
Consumer Affairs Representative
U.S. Postal Service
San Diego, California 92119-9631

U.S. Postal Service
Field Legal Services
San Bruno, California 94099-4824

Dear Congressman Bates:

I apologize for copying the first of my letters on this subject to Con­gressman Duncan Hunter (I was in his district last year), but you should have received a copy of my second letter dated 17 March 1990. I have yet to receive a response to that letter from any of the public servants listed above.

I am addressing this letter to you as my representative in the U.S. Congress. I trust that you will see to it that the U.S. Postal Service is instructed to abide by the law according to 81 U.S. Statute L. 613, and require the Service to inform all of its employees of that law so that neither I nor my addressees need further contend with undelivered mail or postage due requests by misinformed U.S. Postal Service em­ployees.

The following is essentially a repeat of the 17 March letter that was sent to everyone listed above, except that it is addressed to you, Con­gressman Bates, instead of Margaret Sellers, who was the addressee of the 17 March letter. This letter and all of those sent to those listed above were sent as Registered Mail.

This correspondence is in response to a letter from Beate M. Boyd on behalf of Margaret Sellers dated 28 February 1990 addressed to me in response to my letter dated 11 February, regarding the U.S. Statutes at Large which concern U.S. Postal Rates.

According to a letter Margaret Sellers sent to Congressman Bates on September 29, 1989, she admitted that she was "...unable to explain why these laws are not currently reflected in the U.S.Code 39...'. In Margaret Sellers' letter to me she stated that the law to which I re­ferred "IS NOT VALID". Even if repealed is meant, I cannot take the word of anyone for it. Where is the evidence? In my previous corre­spondence to Margaret Sellers, I feel that I provided ample evidence to the contrary.

As I understand it, T.39 was "Revised and Reenacted into Positive Law by Act, Aug. 12, 1970, Pub.L.91 375, 84 US Stat. 719" (the Reorganiza­tion Act). Title 39 is indicated on the inside cover of the USCS list of US Statute Titles as having been "enacted into law". There seems to have never been a repeal of or change to 81 U.S. Statute L. 613, which states that:

"...the rate of postage on first-class mail weighing thirteen ounces or less is 6 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce...".

The fact that it "is a 30-year old Federal Law", according to Margaret Sellers, does not make it any less a law. The Pony Express Law of 1845 is what gives U.S. Postal Service Union members a monopoly over first class mail. The U.S. Constitution is a lot older, and despite its usurpa­tion by certain government officials and supreme court justices, it is still the law of the land.

Is not a law valid until it is explicitly repealed? How can the act of omitting section 4000 from the more recent printings of the U.S. Statutes at Large repeal the law? How can a "Board of Governors" repeal or write law that would override 81 U.S. Statute L. 613? Is not an Act of the U.S. Congress required to do that?

In an attempt to get definitive and substantiated answers to these ques­tions, I included a copy of the enclosed Postage Law Research with a copy of the 17 March letter to the U.S. Postal Service Field Legal Ser­vices office. A copy of that document was sent to Margaret Sellers as an enclosure with my first letter. This time a copy of the Postage Law Research is enclosed with all of the copies of this letter to all of the parties listed above.

Please act on this matter and promptly.

Sincerely,

Y.CmUppance

* * * * *

Dharma, since the attached U.S.Statutes at Large is a reprinted document (copy), even though the quality of the copy is quite bad, I request that it sim­ply be re-copied and placed within this Journal at this placement.

It is the tool all ones will need to utilize for proof attachment if required by any political persons or Postal employees--you know, your public SERVANTS!

The law states clearly:

IN 81 US STAT. LG. 613 (PUB. L. 90-206, DEC. 16, 1967; H.R. 7977) PAGE 613:
PUBLIC LAW 90-206

AN ACT

To adjust certain postage rates of basic compensation for certain officers and employees in the Federal Government, and to regulate the mailing of pan­dering advertisements, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "postal Rev­enue and Federal Salary Act of 1967".

December 16, 1967
[H. R. 79771]

Postal Revenue and Federal Salary Act of 1967.

TITLE I - POSTAL RATES

FIRST-CLASS MAIL

74 Stat. 664; Post, p. 614; 74 Stat. 663 664.

SEC. 101. (a) Sections 4252 and 4253 of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

"Sec 4253. Size and weight limits

"The maximum size of first-class mail is one hundred inches in length
and girth combined and the maximum weight is seventy pounds.

"Sec 4253. Postage rates on first class mail


  • (a) Postage on first-class mail is computed separately on each letter or piece of mail. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the rate of postage on first-class mail weighing thirteen ounces or less is 6 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce.



  • (b) First-class mail weighing more than thirteen ounces shall be mailed at the rates of postage established by section 4303(d) of this, title and shall be entitled to the most expeditious handling and transportation practicable



  • (c) The rate of postage for each single postal card and for each portion of a double postal card, including the cost of manufacture, and for each post card and the initial portion of each double post card conforming to section 4251(c) of this title is 5 cents.



  • (d) The rate of postage on business reply mail is the regular rate prescribed in this section, together with an additional charge thereon...


So, in US Stat. Lg. 613 (Pub. L. 90-206, Dec. 16, 1967; H.R. 7977) page 613 (above) there is reference to "Sections 4252 and 4253 of Title 39, USC," as being amended, and the rate increased to six cents. Significantly, the statute presents only these Sections in quotation marks. As with 76 Stat., there is the same reference to 74 US Stat. 664 in the small print in the side margin as the origin of this second amendment to the statute on postage rates.

All of the aforementioned statutes were enacted by Congress prior to 84 Stat. 719, which is the "Postal Reorganization Act of 1970," which purportedly re­pealed the Post Office Department.

etc., etc., etc. (sec following reprint)

Therefore what do I suggest you do? Send your first class mail according to the law: PLACE SIX CENTS (TWO 3 CENT STAMPS) IN THE STAMP AREA OF YOUR ENVELOPE AND UNDERNEATH IN CLEAR PRINT (BY STAMP OR HAND-WRITING) put:

"ACCORDING TO LAW: 81 U.S. STAT. LG. 613 (PUB. L. 90-206)"

What will happen? Well, a lot of it will go forth unnoticed. Most will be re­turned for additional postage. What do you do? Take this information with a cover letter with appropriate addressees on your letter suitable for your geo­graphic location, to your local post office and demand from the local post­master/mistress that your mail go forth according to law.

This, friends, is another example of laws being put forth; rates hiked and YOU JUST ASSUME THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS LEGAL.

NOT SO! And in this instance it is even more blatant for in 84 Stat. 719 (Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970), the "Reorganization Act", the Section numbers jump from 3001 to 5001 as shown in the following portions reprinted from the "official" records. This Statute shows the sections ending at 3685 and starting again at 5001 with NO EXPLANATION FOR THE MISSING SECTIONS. Section 4253 is not shown or referenced. On page 774 of 84 Stat. 719 (Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970), THE PREVIOUS LAW IS SHOWN TO BE TRANS­FERRED TO THIS STATUTE....

Now why do you suppose all that is missing? I knew you knew! IT IS TO PREVENT YOU THE PEOPLE FROM KNOWING! IT WAS RIGHTLY ASSUMED THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD GRUMBLE BUT NEVER EVEN REMOTELY CONSIDER THAT THE LAWS HAVE BEEN SHATTERED. WAKE UP, SLEEPY HEADS, OR ASSUME YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT WHICH IS COMING DOWN UPON YOU. IF YOU ALLOW THE CONSTITUTION TO BE BROUGHT FORTH AS PLANNED BY THE CRIMINALS, YOU UNDOUBTEDLY DESERVE THAT WHICH COMES TO PASS!

YOU WILL WALK IN STRENGTH AND PREVAIL IF YOU TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY AND STAND WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW WHICH IS! SO BE IT AND SELAH. AHO!

Postage Law Research
THE U.S. STATUTES AT LARGE

Research of the 'postal rate' statute(s) in Title 39 USC revealed a number of Irregularities and omissions in the so-called "laws" enacted as part of the 1970 'Reorganization Act'.

Volume 74 United States Statutes at Large, pg. 644 (Public Law 86­682, Sept. 2, 1960), Title 39 USC Section 4253:

§4253. Postage rates on first class mall

  • (a) Postage on first class mail is computed separately on each letter or piece of mail. The rate of postage on first class mail is four cents for each ounce or a fraction of an ounce, except that the rate--

(1) on drop letters is three cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce;
(2) for each single postal card and each portion of a double postal card, including the cost of manufacture, is three cents;
(3) for each post card and the initial portion of each double post card conforming to section 4251 (c) of this title is three cents.


  • (b) The rate of postage on business reply mail Is the regular rate prescribed in subsection (a) of this section together with an additional charge thereon of two cents for each piece weighing two ounces or less and five cents for each piece weighing more than two ounces. The postage and charge shall be collected on delivery.


indicates that the cost for each ounce of first class postage is four cents - Sec. 4253(a). Unlike 81 US Stat. 613, there are no unusual quotation marks surrounding these congressional enactments.

Vol. 76 US Stat. L. 832 (Pub.L. 87-793, October 11, 1962; H.R. Bill 7927) page 832:

Public Law 87-793
October 11, 1962
[H. R. 79271]

Postal service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962

AN ACT
To adjust postal rates, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Postal Service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962"

Part I - POSTAL SERVICE
Title I - Postal Rates
First Class Mail.
74 Stat. 644.

SEC. 101. Section 4253(a) of title 39, United States Code, is
amended by striking out the words 'four' and "three" wherever appearing in subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the words "five" and "four", respectively.

indicates an increase in the postage rates from four cents to five cents for first class mail. Again, unlike 81 Stat. 613 there are no quotation marks surrounding these congressional enactments. There is reference to 74 Stat. 664 in the very small print in the side margin as the origin of this amendment to the statute on postage rates.

In 81 US STAT. LG. 613 (PUB. L. 90-206, DEC. 16, 1967; H.R. 7977)
PAGE 613:

Public Law 90-206

December 16, 1967
[H. R. 7977]

Postal Revenue and Federal Salary Act of 1967

AN ACT

To adjust certain postage rates, to adjust the rates of basic compensation for certain officers and employees in the Federal Government, and to regulate the mailing of pandering advertisements, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Postal Revenue and Federal Salary Act of 1967".


TITLE I - POSTAL RATES

First Class Mail
74 Stat. 664.

SEC. 101. (a) Sections 4252 and 4253 of title 39, United Stases Code,
is amended to read as follows:

§4253. Size and weight limits
The maximum site of first-class mail is one hundred inches in length and girth combined and the maximum weight is seventy pounds.
§4253. Postage rates on first class mail
"(a) Postage on first-class mail is computed separately on each letter or piece of mail. Except as otherwise provided in this section. the rate of postage on first-class mall weighing thirteen ounces or less is 6 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce.
"(b) First-class mall weighing more than thirteen ounces shall be mailed at the rates of postage established by section 4303(d) of this title and shall be entitled to the most expeditious handling and transportation practicable. (post, p. 614.)
"(c) The rate of postage for each single postal card and for each portion of a double postal card, including the cost of manufacture, and for each post card and the initial portion of each double post card conforming to section 4251(c) of this title is 5 cents. (74 Stat. 663 664.)
"(d) The rate of postage on business reply mail is the regular rate prescribed in this section. together with an additional charge thereon...

there Is reference to "Sections 4252 and 4253 of Title 39, USC," as being amended, and the rate increased to six cents. Significantly, the statute presents only these Sections in quotation marks. As with
76 Stat., there is the same reference to 74 US Stat. 664 in the small print in the side margin as the origin of this second amendment to the statute on postage rates.

All of the aforementioned statutes were enacted by Congress prior to 84 Stat. 719, which Is the "Postal Reorganization Act of 1970", which purportedly repealed the Post Office Department.

In 84 Stat. 719 (Pub.L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970), the "Reorganization Act":

Public Law 91.375

August 12, 1970
[H. R. 17070]
AN ACT

To Improve and modernize the postal service, to reorganize the Post Office Department, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Postal Reorganization Act". (Postal Reorganization Act)

SEC. 2 Title 39. United States Code, is revised and reenacted, and
the sections thereof may be cited as "39 U.S.C.", as follows:
(74 Stat. 578)

TITLE 39 - POSTAL SERVICE

Part ............................................................................................... Sec.
I GENERAL.............................................................................. .. 101
II PERSONNEL......................................................................... 1001
III MODERNIZATION AND FISCAL ADMINISTRATION .2001
IV MAIL MATTER.................................................................... 3001
V TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL........................................... 5001

Part I - GENERAL
CHAPTER Sec
1. Postal Policy and Definitions............................................... 101
2. Organization............................................................................ 201
3. General Authority................................................................... 401
4. Private Carriage of Letters.................................................... 601
...

the Section numbers jump from 3001 to 5001 as shown in the contents. This Statute shows the sections ending at 3685 and starting again at 5001 with no explanation for the missing Sections. Section 4253 is not shown or referenced. On page 774 of 84 Stat. 719 (Pub.L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970), the previous law is shown to be transferred to this Statute:

SAVING PROVISIONS

SEC. 5. (a) All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, certificates, licenses, and privileges ‑
(1) which have been issued, made, granted or allowed to become effective‑
(A) under any provision of law amended by this Act: or
(B) In the exercise of duties, powers, or functions which are transferred under this Act;
by (i) any department or agency, any functions of which are transferred by this Act, or (ii) any court of competent jurisdic­tion; and
(2) which are in effect at the time the United States Postal Serv­ice commences operations, shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded. set aside, or repealed by the Postal Service (in the exercise of any authority vested In it by this Act), by any court of competent Jurisdiction, or by operation of law.

In this Statute there is re-printed as a revised re-enactment of the old T.39, the new text of T.39:


APPENDIX
Provisions of Former Title 39

Publ. 91-375, §2, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 719, revised and reenacted Title 39, subject to certain savings provisions (see section 5 of Publ. 91-375, set our as a note preceding section 101 of new Title 39).

Accordingly, the provisions of former Title 39, The Postal Service, as originally enacted by Publ.. 86-682. Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 579 and in existence at the time of the revision and reenactment, are set out in this Appendix for convenient reference.

For the disposition of the sections of former Title 39 in the new Title 39 and the derivation of the sections of the new Title 39, see the Tables set out in the preliminary material appearing at the beginning of this volume.

TITLE 39
POSTAL SERVICE
"Part Sec.
I. GENERAL 1
II. PISCAL ADMINISTRATION 2001
III. PERSONNEL 2001
IV MAIL MATTER 4001
V SPECIAL MAIL AND BANKING SERVICE 5001
VI. DELIVERY AND TRANSPORATION SERVICES 3101


"PART I - GENERAL
CHAPTER Sec.
1. Definitions and Applcation 1
3. Organization 301
5. General Provisions 501
7. Post Offices 701
9. Private Carriage of Letters 901
....

§ 4253. Postage rates on first-class mail

(a) Postage on first-class mail is computed separately on each letter or piece of mail. Except as otherwise provided in this sec­tion, the rate of postage on first-class mall weighing thirteen ounces or less is 6 cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce.
....

There is no change in the postal rates. Like 81 Stat., all of these
Statute sections are within quotation marks. Do not confuse the Section numbers of the Statute with the Section numbers of the quoted Title 39.

In this 84 Stat. Sec. 3 on page 773 is:

"CONTINUATION OF EXISTING RATES AND FEES".

*Section 3. The classes of mail, the rates of postage. and fees for postal services prescribed by law or regulation made or adopted prior to the effective date of sub-chapter II of Chapter 36 of Title 39, United States Code, as enacted by section 2 of this Act(*) shall be in effect according to the terms of such law or regulation until changed in accordance with such sub-chapter".

**Section 2 of this Act concerns "Permanent rates and classes of mail" as from Sect. 3621 to 3628. The Statute is still in quotes here.

No other increases have been found in a search of the Indexes of the Statutes at Large from Vol. 81 (1967) to Vol. 99 Stat. Lg. (1986), looking under the words of "Post Office", "Postal Service", "Postage Rates", etc., which disclosed the above statutes. The remaining years are not in a typical bound Volume. There are "advance sheets" of the Statutes, they have not been thoroughly examined yet, but there "appears" to be no change in the status as delineated above.

THE CODE BOOKS

It is Interesting to note that these enactments are re-presented in the more commonly cited "United States Code Annotated" (USCA), published by West's Publishing Co., and/or the "United States Codes Service" (USCS) published by the Lawyer's Cooperative Co. The USCS
(Code Service) might be considered the lesser choice to use as a law reference in any court-filed document. When one looks into either of these 'Code' books, there is no mention of T.39 USC Sec. 4253, nor any mention of postal rates or costs in the places where they should appear.

In both the USCA and USCS books in Chapter 36 ("Mail Matter; Postal Rates, Classes, and Services"), the code section numbers stop at Section 3685 and begin again at Chapter 50, which Is about the "Transportation of Mail". Chapters 37 to 49 are not printed as part of the regular published book for Title 39 USC, but they do exist.
The postage rate sections addressed therein apparently were to have been found In Chapter 39. A search of the "pocket parts" of both of these works have no reference to T.39 USC Sec. 4253.

Because USCS (Code Service) may be considered the lesser of the two Code cites, and because it in fact has less information on this 4253-rate subject, it will be addressed first.

U.S.C.S.

Two different edition of the USCS (Code Service) were researched One had a 1970 copyright. The other had a 1978 copyright. Both had a "pocket part" update to recent days similar to that of the USCA. There is no reference to Sec. 4253 in the USCS. As with the USCA, the Section numbers stop at 3685 and start again at 5001. No space divides this lack of Section-numbering. The numbers are simply not printed. No reason for this omission is given. On preface page xv in the "Parallel Reference Tables" of the book itself, Section 4253 is said to have been "omitted", as were many others. The "Derivation" table of the 1970 edition indicates it was revised with the new T.39. It does not show 4253. There was no comment concerning 4253 in the "pocket part".

The USCS does, however say in both of the above Comparison Tables as they do on preface page xiii that T.39 was "Revised and Reenacted into Positive Law by Act, Aug. 12, 1970, Pub.L. 91 375, 84 Stat. 719". Title 39 is indicated on the Inside cover of the USCS list of US Statute Titles as having been "enacted Into law".

U.S.C.A.

The copyright of the USCA (Code Annotated) referenced was from 1980 with a 'pocket part' update to recent days. As with USCS, the T.39 Section numbers in USCA stop at 3685 and immediately start at 5001. All other Section numbers between them are not published. On preface page xviii are the comparison tables of "T.39" with both "Disposition" (old Section numbers compared to new Section numbers) and "Derivation" (new Section numbers compared with origin from old Section numbers).

In the USCA Disposition Table, Sec. 4253 is shown as the old T.39 Sec. 280 divided and revised to the new T.39, Secs. 4025, 4251 and 4253; in the USCA Derivation Table, Sec. 4253 is said to have been "omitted"; Sec. 3685 goes right on to Sec. 5001 as stated above. There was no comment on 4253 in the "pocket part".

There was found at the end of the USCA in the Appendix on page
315-­537 a printing of the old "former Title 39" with a full text of Sec. 4253 on pg. 459 under the heading of Chapter 39 (one of the newer Code's missing chapters), "Part IV. Mail Matter, First Class Mail". It indicated postage costs were six cents for 'first class mail', and two cents additional for 'business reply".

Nowhere in any Statute at Large volume has it been seen that there was a repeal of the former Title 39. On page 315, of this T.39 USCA it is indicated by the publisher (not Congress) that "Pub.L. 91-375, [of] Aug. 12, 1970, [Vol.] 84 [U.S.] Stat. [page] 719, [has] revised and reenacted Title 39....".

Note that in all of the aforementioned Statutes and Codes there is merely talk about a "revision" of these statutes and then a "re­enactment" of them. There is no evidence of the repeal of Section 4253 of the old T.39. Nowhere does it state that a repeal has ever been made of the law asking six cents for first class mail postage costs, nor is there any lawful, Congressional enactment seen that properly increases the six cent postage fees to any rate that we are "asked" to pay today. Whether it is of a good faith mistake or not, as George Gordon said, "What is not said is often more eloquent than what is said".

Reprinted by W.T.Holmes