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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3958 
To require the United States Postal Service to notify postal customers and 
relevant officials when operations are temporarily suspended at a post 
office, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 12, 2025 
Mr. DIAZ-BALART (for himself and Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To require the United States Postal Service to notify postal 
customers and relevant officials when operations are tem-
porarily suspended at a post office, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. NOTICE OF TEMPORARY POST OFFICE CLO-
SURE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If the United States Postal Serv-
ice temporarily suspends operations at a post office, either 
voluntarily or involuntarily, the United States Postal Serv-
ice shall— 
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(4) NOTICE
DISTRIBUTION.—For each notice 
required under this subsection with respect to a post 
office, the United States Postal Service shall— 
(A) mail such notice to persons served by 
such post office; 
(B) place such notice at the physical loca-
tion of such post office; 
(C) make such notice publicly available on 
a website of the United States Postal Service; 
(D) publish such notice on relevant social 
media websites; and 
(E) send such notice to a valid email of 
each relevant official. 
(5) RELEVANT
OFFICIALS
DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘‘relevant officials’’, with re-
spect to a post office, means— 
(A) each Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives (including a Delegate or Resident 
Commissioner to Congress) representing a con-
gressional district which includes all or part of 
the geographic area served by such post office; 
(B) each Senator representing a State 
which includes all or part of the geographic 
area served by such post office; and 
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(C) the head of each local government with 
jurisdiction over all or part of the geographic 
area served by such post office. 
(c) OPPORTUNITY
FOR
COMMENT.—The United 
States Postal Service shall provide persons served by a 
post office at which operations are temporarily suspended 
an opportunity to present their views on such temporary 
suspension of operations, including the relocation of such 
post office. 
(d) REPLACEMENT RETAIL POSTAL SERVICES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 10 days after 
the temporary suspension of operations at a post of-
fice, the United States Postal Service shall provide 
to persons served by such post office the services de-
scribed in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in the same geographic area as such 
post office, to the extent practicable; and 
(B) to the extent that such post office pro-
vided such services immediately before such 
temporary suspension of operations. 
(2) RETAIL
POSTAL
SERVICES.—The services 
described in this paragraph are the following serv-
ices not available from the post office at which oper-
ations are temporarily suspended: 
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(A) Retail postal services, including the 
sale of boxes and other packaging material sold 
by the United States Postal Service. 
(B) A means for holders of post office 
boxes at such post office to receive mail sent to 
the post office box of such holder. 
(C) Providing, accepting, and processing 
forms necessary for persons to request a change 
of mailing address or a temporary halt to the 
delivery of mail to such person. 
(3) DURATION.—The United States Postal 
Service shall provide the services required by para-
graph (1) until the end of the temporary suspension 
of operations with respect to which the United 
States Postal Service is providing such services 
under such paragraph. 
(e) APPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply only 
with respect to temporary suspensions of operations at 
post offices that begin after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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