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Postal Regulations relating to conduct on Postal Property



Code of Federal Regulations
Title 39, Volume 1, Postal Service
Revised as of July 1, 2000
CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
PART 232--CONDUCT ON POSTAL PROPERTY--

39CFR232.1(e) Disturbances.
Disorderly conduct, or conduct which creates loud and unusual noise, or which obstructs the usual use of entrances, foyers, corridors, offices, elevators, stairways, and parking lots, or which otherwise tends to impede or disturb the public employees in the performance of their duties, or which otherwise impedes or disturbs the general public in transacting business or obtaining the services provided on property, is prohibited.

39CFR232.1 (h) Soliciting, electioneering, collecting debts, vending, and advertising.
(1) Soliciting alms and contributions, campaigning for election to any public office, collecting private debts, soliciting and vending for commercial purposes (including, but not limited to, the vending of newspapers and other publications), displaying or distributing commercial advertising, soliciting signatures on petitions, polls, or surveys (except as otherwise authorized by Postal Service regulations), and impeding ingress to or egress from post offices are prohibited...

(5) ...no tables, chairs, freestanding signs or posters, structures, or furniture of any type may be placed in postal lobbies or on postal walkways, steps, plazas, lawns or landscaped areas, driveways, parking lots, or other exterior spaces.

39CFR232.1 (i) Photographs  ...photographs for news purposes may be taken in entrances, lobbies, foyers, corridors, or auditoriums when used for public meetings. Other photographs may be taken only with the permission of the local postmaster or installation head.

Click here for the full text of the law quoted above.

Click here for the poster that is used by the Post Office to comply with the regluation that the Conduct on Postal Property section must be posted at the Post Office. It is called "Poster 7". It is posted conspicuously inside the front lobby of the Rio Linda Post Office, on the immediate left after entering the public door. It has been there for years.



Click here for the message sent by Recall Facilitator Darrell Nelson on June 30, 2001, confirming that petitions were being collected at the Post Office, in violation of 39CFR232.1.