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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) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (3)
Government buildings, facilities, and propertyPostal serviceU.S. Postal Service

Summary
  • Prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from closing, consolidating, downgrading, or taking similar actions with processing and distribution centers if such action would leave a state without any processing and distribution center
  • Requires each state and the District of Columbia to maintain at least one postal processing and distribution center
  • Defines processing and distribution centers as central mail facilities that distribute, dispatch, and sort incoming and outgoing mail for designated service areas

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Cynthia M. Lummis’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • PARADIGM $19,800
  • THE SINCLAIR COMPANIES $9,900
  • COINBASE $9,100
  • ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $8,200
  • TARPLIN, DOWNS AND YOUNG, LLC $7,100

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Cynthia M. Lummis → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  2. Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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)
  • HR 1310 — POSTAL Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 8193 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 7365 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as the "Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 6006 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 North Elm Street in Tuskegee, Alabama, as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office". (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.

  • S 661 — Postal Processing Protection Act · Introduced Feb 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 81%
  • HR 765 — MAILS Act · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 4633 — USPS Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 155 — MAILS Act · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 1065 — INFORM Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HRES 70 — Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to privatization. · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 13, 2025

Ms. Lummis (for herself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Barrasso, and Mrs. Shaheen) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) Processing and distribution center.—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.

(2) State.—The term “State” means a State or the District of Columbia.

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

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