I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2103 
To modify the procedures used by the United States Postal Service for 
the closure or consolidation of any post office or any processing and 
distribution center, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2025 
Ms. BUDZINSKI (for herself, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. GOLDEN of Maine, Mr. 
BERGMAN, and Mr. PAPPAS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To modify the procedures used by the United States Postal 
Service for the closure or consolidation of any post office 
or any processing and distribution center, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Postal Per-
formance Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSURE AND CONSOLIDATIONS 
OF POST OFFICES. 
Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Postal Service’’ and 
insert ‘‘(A) The Postal Service’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) During such 60-day period, the Post-
al Service shall carry out a public hearing on 
the closure or consolidation, which may be at-
tended in-person or virtually by any members of 
the public affected by the closure or consolida-
tion. 
‘‘(C) Not later than 7 days after such 
hearing, the Postal Service shall publish a sum-
mary of the hearing on the Postal Service’s 
public website, and include in such summary a 
description of any comments made or otherwise 
submitted at such hearing and the percentage 
of such comments that were in support or 
against the closure or consolidation. 
‘‘(D) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this title, the applicable post office may not 
be closed or consolidated until the date that is 
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180 days after the date the summary is pub-
lished under subparagraph (C).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this title, a post office may not be closed or consoli-
dated if such post office— 
‘‘(A) is not located within 15 miles of any 
other post office; or 
‘‘(B) is the closest post office for a popu-
lation of 15,000 individuals or more.’’. 
SEC. 3. POSTAL SERVICE PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION 
CENTERS; TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 of title 39, United 
States Code, is amended by adding after section 416 the 
following: 
‘‘§ 417. Postal Service processing and distribution 
centers 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Postal Serv-
ice 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 in any geo-
graphically non-contiguous region of that State inhabited 
by more than 100,000 permanent residents. In this sub-
section, the term ‘geographically non-contiguous region’ 
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means an area of a State that is physically separated from 
the main body of the State by a significant body of water 
or land controlled by another State. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO MAIL PROCESSING 
FACILITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Postal Service may not imple-
ment or otherwise carry out any changes to the op-
erations of its mail processing facilities (including 
consolidation or partial consolidation, aggregation of 
processing, distribution, or delivery operations) until 
on or after the date that the Postal Regulatory 
Commission issues an advisory opinion on the pro-
posed facility changes. 
‘‘(2) DEADLINE.—The Postal Regulatory Com-
mission shall issue the advisory opinion required 
under paragraph (1) not later than 120 business 
days after the date the Postal Service submits to the 
Commission a proposed change to any such facility. 
‘‘(3) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The Commission 
shall issue an advisory opinion for each processing 
and distribution center at which the Postal Service 
has proposed changes, downsizing, and consolida-
tions. 
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‘‘(4) REPORT.—If an advisory opinion by the 
Commission under this subsection determines that a 
proposed change will lead to slower on-time mail de-
livery, the Postal Service shall publish a report on 
the Postal Service’s public website on practices and 
procedures the Postal Service will implement to en-
sure mail delivery remains on time. No such changes 
may be implemented or otherwise carried out for the 
period of 180 days beginning on the date such re-
port is so published. 
‘‘(c) PROHIBITING ON CARRYING OUT MAIL PROC-
ESSING FACILITY REVIEW.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Postal Service may not carry out the 
United States Postal Service Mail Processing Facility Re-
view (or any successor program), and no Federal funds 
(including amounts in the Postal Service Fund under sec-
tion 2003) may be obligated or expended to carry out such 
Review. 
‘‘(d) LIMITATION OF THE CLOSURE OF PROCESSING 
AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN REGIONS THAT ARE 
NOT MEETING ON-TIME DELIVERY BENCHMARKS.—Dur-
ing any calendar year, the Postal Service may not close, 
consolidate, or otherwise move any operations or services 
from any processing and distribution center located within 
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any Postal Service district that, during anytime within the 
immediately preceding calendar year, failed to meet— 
‘‘(1) at least 93 percent on-time delivery rate 
for two-day single first-class mail; and 
‘‘(2) at least 90.3 percent on-time delivery rate 
for three to five-day first-class mail. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘processing and distribution cen-
ter’ 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 prepara-
tion 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 fa-
cility without a station or branch; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘State’ means the 50 States and 
the District of Columbia. 
‘‘§ 418. Local transportation optimization and re-
gional 
transportation 
optimization 
changes 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Postal Service may not im-
plement or otherwise carry out any local transportation 
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optimization (in this section referred to as ‘LTO’) and re-
gional transportation optimization (in this section referred 
to as ‘RTO’) efforts that will decrease the number of times 
mail is either picked up or dropped off for any post office 
in the country. 
‘‘(b) PRC OPINION.—The Postal Service may not 
proceed with changing drop off and pick up schedules at 
post offices as part of the LTO or RTO plans without 
requesting a Postal Regulatory Commission opinion. 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—If the Postal Regulatory Commis-
sion does not recommend implementing these changes in 
an opinion under subsection (b), the Postal Service may 
not move forward with LTO or RTO optimization efforts 
anywhere in the United States.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for such chapter is amended by adding after the item re-
lating to section 416 the following: 
‘‘417. Postal Service processing and distribution centers. 
‘‘418. Local transportation optimization and regional transportation optimiza-
tion changes.’’. 
Æ 
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