Section 6Sec./Art. 6

Powers.- To achieve its objectives and undertake its functions effectively, the Corporation shall have the following powers:

a. to charge fees for postal services to be rendered, receipt the same, and prescribe, the manner it is to be paid and collected, subject to the provisions of this Act;

b. to establish and maintain post offices, postal stations, collection points and related facilities and equipment of such character and in such locations that postal users throughout the Philippines will, consistent with reasonable economies of operations, have ready access to essential postal services;

c. to issue and sell postage stamps and other stamped paper, cards, and envelopes as it may deem necessary or desirable;

d. to issue money orders or checks for transmittal through the mails and authorize the issuance of a replacement in cases of lost, stolen, stale, or destroyed money order or check;

e. to offer a wide array of postal services other than ordinary mail and parcels, which however, shall not be compulsory, discriminatory nor unfairly competing with similar private enterprises, such as money order, parcel, postal savings bank, philatelic, and other types of services which are internationally accepted as part of postal business;

f. to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as would improve the postal system or implement the provisions of this Act.