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Postal Processing Protection Act
To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other facility supporting a post office, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill would expand postal facility closure requirements by extending existing protections that apply to post office closures to also cover acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, and other facilities operated by the Postal Service that support post offices. Currently, the Postal Service must follow certain procedures when closing a post office, including notification and consultation requirements. This bill would ensure the same procedural protections apply whenever the Postal Service proposes to close or consolidate any of the supporting facilities that enable post offices to function. The amendments would apply the existing notice, comment, and procedural requirements in Section 404(d) of title 39 to these additional facility types.
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- Feb 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
- Feb 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Ms. Hageman (for herself and Mr. Cleaver) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other facility supporting a post office, 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 Processing Protection Act”.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “any post office” and inserting “any post office, or any acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more post offices”;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “a post office” and inserting “a post office, or an acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more post offices”; and
(B) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking “post offices” and inserting “post offices, or acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facilities that are owned or operated by the Postal Service that support 1 or more post offices,”;
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking “a post office” and inserting “a post office, or an acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more post offices,”;
(4) in paragraph (4), by striking “a post office” and inserting “a post office, or an acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more post offices,”; and
(5) in paragraph (5), by striking “any post office” and inserting “any post office, or any acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more post offices,”. <all>
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