Editing Body A Introduction CIM v5 2021

This Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM), jointly prepared by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the United States Postal Service, represents a good
faith effort to identify contractual issues on which the National parties are in agreement regarding interpretation and application of the parties’ <b>2019</b> National
Agreement. The CIM is referenced in the National Agreement between the parties at Article 15, Section .3E, which is reprinted below. (Note that actual
language from the National Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding and Letters of Intent is shaded in gray throughout the CIM.)