[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: 39CFR501.17]

[Page 171]
 
                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 501_AUTHORIZATION TO MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE POSTAGE
 
Sec.  501.17  Decertified Postage Evidencing Systems.

    (a) A Decertified Postage Evidencing System is a device for which 
the provider's authority to distribute has been withdrawn by the Postal 
Service as a result of any retirement plan for a given class of meters 
published by the Postal Service in the Federal Register; a suspension or 
revocation under Sec.  501.6; or a voluntary withdrawal undertaken by 
the provider.
    (b) A Decertified Postage Evidencing System must be withdrawn from 
service by the date agreed to by the Postal Service and provider.
    (c) To the extent postage meters are involved, the provider must 
utilize the approved procedures for lost and stolen meters under Sec.  
501.14(c)(7) to locate the meter and remove it from service by the 
agreed upon date.
    (d) Decertified Postage Evidencing Systems that are not submitted to 
the Postal Service for refund within one hundred and eighty (180) days 
of the agreed upon withdrawal from service date will not be eligible for 
refund of unused postage.
    (e) Postage indicia printed by Decertified Postage Evidencing 
Systems may no longer be considered valid postage one hundred and eighty 
(180) days from the agreed upon withdrawal from service date.