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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.
Summary
This bill expands protections for postal facilities by extending existing United States Postal Service closure requirements to include not just post offices, but also processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, and other facilities owned or operated by the USPS that support post offices. Currently, closure notification and approval requirements apply only to post offices; this bill applies those same requirements to supporting infrastructure like mail processing centers and distribution facilities. The bill amends federal law to require the USPS to follow specified procedures before closing any of these supporting facilities.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] (R-SD)
4 cosponsors
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] (D-IL)
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT)
- Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] (R-MS)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Mike Rounds’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $30,350
- NULL $26,450
- APOLLO $19,250
- ROCKET MORTGAGE $15,700
- APOLLO MGMT. $13,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mike Rounds → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Feb 20, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
- Feb 20, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 20, 2025
Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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.
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. POSTAL PROCESSING PROTECTION.
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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