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POSTAL Act

To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other purposes.

Introduced Feb 13, 2025

Latest action (Feb 13, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (3)
Government buildings, facilities, and propertyPostal serviceU.S. Postal Service

Summary

This bill prohibits the United States Postal Service from closing, consolidating, or downgrading any processing and distribution center in a way that would leave a State without at least one such facility. The bill defines processing and distribution centers as central mail facilities that distribute and dispatch incoming and outgoing mail for a designated service area. The restriction applies to sectional center facilities, general mail facilities, and dedicated mail processing facilities.

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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 7006 — Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5166 — Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1473 — Postal Processing Protection Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 661 — Postal Processing Protection Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 569 — POSTAL Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1706 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the William J. Donovan Post Office Building. (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 3294 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 3630 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1473 — Postal Processing Protection Act · Introduced Feb 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 2103 — Protect Postal Performance Act · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 3004 — USPS SERVES US Act · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 2807 — Postal Service Transparency and Review Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 4633 — USPS Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 9343 — Easy Access to Mail Act · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 66%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 13, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 13, 2025

Ms. Hageman (for herself and Mr. Pappas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Postal Operations Stay Timely And Local Act” or the “POSTAL Act”.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OR CONSOLIDATING POSTAL SERVICE PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN STATES.

(a) In General.—The United States Postal Service may not close, consolidate, downgrade, or take any other similar action with respect to any processing and distribution center in a State if such action would result in no such center being located in that State.

(b) Definitions.—In this section—

(1) the term “processing and distribution center” means a central mail facility that—

(A) distributes and dispatches part or all of both incoming mail and outgoing mail for a designated service area;

(B) provides instructions on the preparation of collection mail, dispatch schedules, and sorting plan requirements to mailers; and

(C) is a sectional center facility, a general mail facility, or a dedicated mail processing facility without a station or branch; and

(2) the term “State” means the 50 States and the District of Columbia. <all>

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