The Terminal Inspection Act of 1916 was a part of the
Rural Post Roads Act of 1916 The Rural Post Roads Act of 1916 provided federal aid in the United States to the states for the construction of rural post roads, construed to mean any public road over which the United States mail was then transported. President Woodrow Wilson
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. It prohibited a person from sending through the
U.S. mail
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U. ...
to a state address a package containing a plant or plant product unless the package's contents are plainly marked.
1916 in American law
United States federal postal legislation
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