Section 5Sec./Art. 5

Responsibilities and Functions. - The Corporation shall have the following functions and responsibilities:

a. to provide for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning and holding of mails, parcels, and like materials throughout the Philippines and, pursuant to agreements entered into, to and from foreign countries;

b. to determine and dispose of, in a manner it deems most advantageous, with law and settled jurisprudence, confiscated or non-available mail matters, prohibited articles, dead letters and undelivered mails, except the sale of prohibited drugs, dangerous materials, and other banned articles as defined by law;

c. to plan, develop, promote, and operate a nationwide postal system with a network that extends or makes available, at least ordinary mail service, to any settlements in the country.