[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 39, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 39CFR501.12]

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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 501_AUTHORIZATION TO MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE POSTAGE
 
Sec.  501.12  Administrative sanctions.

    (a) An authorized Postage Evidencing System provider may be 
responsible to the Postal Service for revenue losses caused by failure 
to comply with Sec.  501.11.
    (b) The Postal Service shall determine all costs and revenue losses 
measured from the date that the provider knew, or should have known, of 
a potential security weakness, including, but not limited to, 
administrative and investigative costs and documented revenue losses 
that result from any Postage Evidencing System for which the provider 
failed to comply with any provision in Sec.  501.11. The Postal Service 
issues a written demand for reimbursement of any and all such costs and 
losses (net of any amount collected by the Postal Service from the 
customers) with interest. The demand shall set forth the facts and 
reasons on which it is based.
    (c) The provider may present the Postal Service with a written 
defense to the proposed action within thirty (30) calendar days of 
receipt. The defense must include all supporting evidence and state with 
specificity the reasons for which the sanction should not be imposed.
    (d) After receipt and consideration of the defense, the Postal 
Service shall advise the provider of the decision and the facts and 
reasons for it; the decision shall be effective on receipt unless it 
provides otherwise. The decision shall also advise the provider that it 
may, within thirty (30) calendar days of receiving written notice, 
appeal that determination to the Chief Marketing Officer of the Postal 
Service who shall issue a written decision upon the appeal which will 
constitute the final Postal Service decision.
    (e) The imposition of an administrative sanction under this section 
does not preclude any other criminal or civil statutory, common law, or 
administrative remedy that is available by law to the Postal Service, 
the United States, or any other person or entity.
    (f) An authorized Postage Evidencing System provider, who without 
just cause fails to follow any Postal Service approved procedures, 
perform adequately any of the Postal Service approved controls, or fails 
to obtain approval of a required process in Sec.  501.14 in a timely 
fashion, is subject to an administrative sanction under this provision 
Sec.  501.12.

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