[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 39, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 39CFR223.2]

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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 223--RELATIONSHIPS AND CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 223.2  Channels of communication.

    (a) Headquarters and Postal Region Offices. (1) The heads of groups, 
departments, and offices formulate the necessary directives to provide 
guidance to regional officials. Direction of regional officials is 
provided on employee and labor relations matters by the Senior Assistant 
Postmaster General, Human Resources, and on other matters by the Deputy 
Postmaster General.
    (2) Policy directives shall be issued over the signatures of the 
heads of the groups, departments, and offices covering matters within 
their responsibility, except when the Postmaster General or Deputy 
Postmaster General may wish to issue such directives personally. Policy 
directives shall be coordinated with other appropriate groups, 
departments and offices before issuance and reviewed and disseminated by 
the APMG Information Resource Management Department, and, if within the 
authority of the issuer, shall have the same effect as though sent by 
the Postmaster General or the Deputy Postmaster General.
    (3) Guidelines and program implementation instructions and 
procedures not involving policy shall ordinarily be issued over the 
signature of the group, department, or office head having jurisdiction.
    (4) Regional staff officials may communicate directly with the 
corresponding functional group, department, or office in Headquarters on 
matters within their area of jurisdiction. In addition, where 
authorized, they may also directly contact supporting Headquarters 
departments such as Law Department and Inspection Service Department on 
technical matters not requiring administrative judgment of the Regional 
Postmaster General.
    (b) Regional Offices and Field Installations. The regular channels 
of communication are:
    (1) Associate office postmasters, to and from their MSC Manager/
Postmaster.
    (2) MSC Managers/Postmasters, to and from their Field Division 
General Manager/Postmaster.
    (3) BMC managers, to and from field division general managers/
postmasters.
    (4) Field division general managers/postmasters, to and from their 
Regional Postmasters General.
    (5) Heads of other postal installations, to and from their 
designated superiors as appropriate.
    (c) Headquarters, Postal Region Offices, and other Postal 
Installations with Postal Data Centers. (1) The Information Resource 
Management Department provides the necessary directives to the PDCs. The 
Law Department shall maintain direct contact on matters relating to 
professional and policy guidance on claims.
    (2) Postal Region Offices and Postal Data Centers may communicate 
directly with each other.
    (3) Other postal installations and PDCs may communicate directly on 
routine accounting matters.

[38 FR 20406, July 31, 1973, as amended at 43 FR 29117, July 6, 1978; 48 
FR 1966, Jan. 17, 1983; 48 FR 30111, June 30, 1983; 51 FR 40798, Nov. 
10, 1986; 54 FR 29708, July 14, 1989]