[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: 39CFR501.30]

[Page 192-193]
 
                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 501--AUTHORIZATION TO MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE POSTAGE METERS--Table 
of Contents
 
Sec. 501.30  Licensee information.

    (a) As stated in Sec. 501.22(b) manufacturers must transmit 
electronically, copies of completed PS Forms 3601-A, Application for a 
License to Lease and Use Postage meters, to the designated Postal 
Service central data processing facility.
    (b) The Postal Service may use applicant information in the 
administration of postage meter and metered mail activities, and to 
communicate with customers who may no longer be visiting a traditional 
USPS retail outlet. The Postal Service will also use applicant 
information to communicate with USPS customers through any new retail 
channels, and for the following purposes:
    (1) Issuance (including re-licensing, renewal, transfer, revocation 
or denial, as applicable) of a meter license to a postal patron that 
uses a postage meter, and communications with respect to the status of 
such license.
    (2) Disclosure to a meter manufacturer of the identity of any meter 
required to be removed from service by that meter manufacturer, and any 
related licensee data, as the result of revocation of a meter license, 
questioned accurate registration of that meter, or de-certification by 
the Postal Service of any particular class or model of postage meter.
    (3) Use for the purpose of tracking the movement of meters between a 
meter manufacturer and its customers and communications to a meter 
manufacturer (but not to any third party other than the applicant/
licensee) concerning such movement. The term

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``meter manufacturer'' includes a meter manufacturer's dealers and 
agents.
    (4) To transmit general information to all meter customers 
concerning rate and rate category changes implemented or proposed for 
implementation by the United States Postal Service.
    (5) To advertise Postal Service services relating to the acceptance, 
processing and delivery of, or postage payment for, metered mail.
    (6) To allow the Postal Service to communicate with USPS customers 
on products, services and other information otherwise available to USPS 
customers through traditional retail outlets.
    (7) Any internal use by Postal Service personnel, including 
identification and monitoring activities relating to postage meters, 
provided that such use does not result in the disclosure of applicant 
information to any third party or will not enable any third party to use 
applicant information for its own purposes; except that the applicant 
information may be disclosed to other governmental agencies for law 
enforcement purposes as provided by law.
    (8) Identification of authorized meter manufacturers or 
announcements of de-authorization of an authorized meter manufacturer, 
or provision of currently available public information, where an 
authorized meter manufacturer is identified.
    (9) To promote and encourage the use of postage meters, including 
remotely set postage meters, as a form of postage payment, provided that 
the same information is provided to all meter customers, and no 
particular meter manufacturer will be recommended by the Postal Service.
    (10) To contact meter customers in cases of revenue fraud or revenue 
security except that any meter customer suspected of fraud shall not be 
identified to other meter customers.
    (11) Disclosure to a meter manufacturer of applicant information 
pertaining to that meter manufacturer's customers that the Postal 
Service views as necessary to enable the Postal Service to carry out its 
duties and purposes.
    (12) To transmit to a manufacturer all applicant and postage meter 
information pertaining to that manufacturer's customers and postage 
meters that may be necessary to permit such meter manufacturer to 
synchronize its computer meter database with information contained in 
the computer files of the Postal Service, including but not limited to 
computerized data that reside in Postal Service meter management 
databases.
    (13) Subject to the conditions stated herein, to communicate in oral 
or written form with any or all applicants any information that the 
Postal Service views as necessary to enable the Postal Service to carry 
out its duties and purposes under part 501.

[63 FR 53812, Oct. 7, 1998. Redesignated at 66 FR 55097, Nov. 1, 2001]