I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2748 
To restore the financial solvency of the United States Postal Service and 
to ensure the efficient and affordable nationwide delivery of mail. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2013 
Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. FARENTHOLD, and Mr. ROSS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform 
A BILL 
To restore the financial solvency of the United States Postal 
Service and to ensure the efficient and affordable nation-
wide delivery of mail. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; REF-
ERENCES. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Postal Reform Act of 2013’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; references. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—POSTAL SERVICE MODERNIZATION 
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Sec. 101. Nationwide mail delivery schedule. 
Sec. 102. Delivery-point modernization. 
Sec. 103. Efficient and flexible universal postal service. 
Sec. 104. Applicability of procedures relating to closures and consolidations. 
Sec. 105. Enhanced reporting on Postal Service efficiency. 
Sec. 106. Area and district office structure. 
TITLE II—POSTAL SERVICE GOVERNANCE 
Subtitle A—Temporary Governance Authority 
Sec. 201. Purposes. 
Sec. 202. Establishment of the Postal Service Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority. 
Sec. 203. Membership and qualification requirements. 
Sec. 204. Organization and staff. 
Sec. 205. Funding. 
Sec. 206. Responsibilities and powers. 
Sec. 207. Development of financial plan and budget for the solvency of the 
Postal Service. 
Sec. 208. Process for submission and approval of financial plan and budget. 
Sec. 209. Dissolution of the Authority; reconstitution of the Board of Gov-
ernors. 
Subtitle B—Other Matters 
Sec. 211. Appointment of the Postal Service Inspector General. 
Sec. 212. Membership of the Board of Governors. 
TITLE III—POSTAL SERVICE WORKFORCE 
Sec. 301. Applicability of reduction-in-force procedures. 
Sec. 302. Postal Service FEHBP and FEGLI funding requirements. 
Sec. 303. Repeal of provision relating to overall value of fringe benefits. 
Sec. 304. Modifications relating to determination of pay comparability. 
Sec. 305. Last-best-final-offer negotiations. 
Sec. 306. Postal Service workers’ compensation reform. 
Sec. 307. Reporting requirement. 
TITLE IV—POSTAL SERVICE REVENUE 
Sec. 401. Adequacy, efficiency, and fairness of postal rates. 
Sec. 402. Repeal of rate preferences for qualified political committees. 
Sec. 403. Use of negotiated service agreements. 
Sec. 404. Nonpostal services. 
Sec. 405. Alaska bypass mail modernization. 
Sec. 406. Appropriations modernization. 
Sec. 407. Enhanced product innovation. 
TITLE V—POSTAL SERVICE FINANCE 
Sec. 501. Treatment of Postal Service postemployment benefit funding pro-
jected surpluses. 
Sec. 502. Retiree health benefit liability payment schedule. 
Sec. 503. Supplementary borrowing authority during a control period. 
Sec. 504. Postal Service Delivery-Point Modernization Fund. 
Sec. 505. Specific retirement liability calculations relating to the Postal Service. 
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TITLE VI—POSTAL CONTRACTING REFORM 
Sec. 601. Contracting provisions. 
Sec. 602. Technical amendment to definition. 
Sec. 603. Contract limitation. 
TITLE VII—OTHER PROVISIONS 
Sec. 701. Postal facility designations. 
Sec. 702. Response to submissions by the Postal Service. 
Sec. 703. Fair stamp-evidencing competition. 
Sec. 704. USPS innovation officer and accountability. 
Sec. 705. Postal regulatory commission travel reporting. 
(c) REFERENCES.—Except as otherwise expressly 
provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal 
is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, 
a section or other provision, the reference shall be consid-
ered to be made to a section or other provision of title 
39, United States Code. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Postal Service’’ means the United 
States Postal Service; 
(2) the term ‘‘postal retail facility’’ means a 
post office, post office branch, post office classified 
station, or other facility which is operated by the 
Postal Service, and the primary function of which is 
to provide retail postal services, but does not include 
a contractor-operated facility offering postal services; 
(3) the term ‘‘district office’’ means the central 
office of an administrative field unit with responsi-
bility for postal operations in a designated geo-
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graphic area (as defined under regulations, direc-
tives, or other guidance of the Postal Service, as in 
effect on January 1, 2013); and 
(4) the term ‘‘area office’’ means the central of-
fice of an administrative field unit with responsibility 
for postal operations in a designated geographic area 
which is comprised of designated geographic areas 
as referred to in paragraph (3). 
TITLE I—POSTAL SERVICE 
MODERNIZATION 
SEC. 101. NATIONWIDE MAIL DELIVERY SCHEDULE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404 is amended by insert-
ing after subsection (e) the following: 
‘‘(f)(1) The Postal Service may establish a general, 
nationwide mail delivery schedule of 5 days per week. 
‘‘(2) The Postal Service shall ensure that under any 
schedule established under paragraph (1), there shall not 
occur more than 2 consecutive days on which mail is not 
delivered, including as a result of Federal holidays. 
‘‘(3) For a period not to end before December 31, 
2018, the Postal Service shall provide domestic competi-
tive product service 6 days per week to each street address 
that was scheduled to receive package service 6 days per 
week as of September 30, 2012. 
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‘‘(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to au-
thorize a reduction, or to require an increase, in frequency 
of mail delivery for any address for which the Postal Serv-
ice provided delivery on fewer than 6 days per week as 
of January 1, 2013.’’. 
(b) MAILBOX ACCESS.—If the Postal Service estab-
lishes a general, nationwide mail delivery schedule of 5 
days per week, consistent with the provisions of section 
404 of title 39, United States Code, as amended by sub-
section (a), the Postal Service shall amend the Mailing 
Standards of the United States Postal Service (as set 
forth in the Domestic Mail Manual) to ensure that the 
provisions of section 508.3.2.10 of such Manual, as in ef-
fect on September 30, 2012, shall apply on any day on 
which the Postal Service does not deliver mail under the 
established delivery schedule. 
SEC. 102. DELIVERY-POINT MODERNIZATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter VII of chapter 36 is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 3692. Delivery-point modernization 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘delivery point’ means a mailbox 
or other receptacle to which mail is delivered; 
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‘‘(2) the term ‘primary mode of mail delivery’ 
means the typical method by which the Postal Serv-
ice delivers letter mail to the delivery point of a 
postal patron; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘door delivery’ means a primary 
mode of mail delivery whereby mail is placed into a 
slot or receptacle at or near the postal patron’s door 
or is hand delivered to a postal patron, but does not 
include curbside or centralized delivery; 
‘‘(4) the term ‘centralized delivery’ means a pri-
mary mode of mail delivery whereby mail receptacles 
of a number of delivery points are grouped or clus-
tered at a single location; and 
‘‘(5) the term ‘curbside delivery’ means a pri-
mary mode of mail delivery whereby a mail recep-
tacle is situated at the edge of a sidewalk abutting 
a road or curb, at a road, or at a curb. 
‘‘(b) POLICY.—It shall be the policy of the Postal 
Service to use the most cost-effective primary mode of 
mail delivery feasible for postal patrons. 
‘‘(c) PHASEOUT OF DOOR DELIVERY.— 
‘‘(1) NEW ADDRESSES.—Subject to paragraph 
(4), the Postal Service shall implement a program, 
wherever feasible, to provide a primary mode of mail 
delivery other than door delivery to new addresses 
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established after the date of enactment of this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) BUSINESS
ADDRESS
CONVERSION.—Sub-
ject to paragraph (4), the Postal Service shall imple-
ment a program to convert existing business ad-
dresses with door delivery to centralized delivery to 
the maximum extent feasible. In cases in which con-
version to centralized delivery is impractical, conver-
sion to curbside delivery shall be implemented to the 
maximum extent feasible. 
‘‘(3) RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS CONVERSION.— 
‘‘(A) IDENTIFICATION.—Within one year 
after the date of enactment of this section, each 
district office shall identify residential addresses 
within its service area that are appropriate can-
didates for conversion from door delivery to 
curbside or centralized delivery, in accordance 
with standards established by the Postal Serv-
ice. 
‘‘(B) VOLUNTARY
CONVERSION.—Subject 
to paragraph (4), the Postal Service shall seek 
to voluntarily convert the delivery points identi-
fied under subparagraph (A) from door delivery 
to more cost-effective primary modes of mail 
delivery. 
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‘‘(C) PROCEDURES.—In carrying out con-
versions under subparagraph (B), the Postal 
Service shall establish procedures to— 
‘‘(i) solicit, consider, and respond to 
input from postal patrons, State and local 
governments, local associations, and prop-
erty owners; and 
‘‘(ii) place centralized delivery points 
in locations that maximize delivery effi-
ciency, ease of use for postal patrons, and 
respect for private property rights. 
‘‘(4) CONSIDERATIONS.—In making any deter-
mination to convert the primary mode of mail deliv-
ery for an existing address from door delivery to any 
other primary mode of mail delivery, or to provide 
a primary mode of mail delivery to a new address, 
the Postal Service may consider— 
‘‘(A) the impact of weather conditions, 
physical barriers, or any other factor that may 
impact the feasibility of providing a primary 
mode of mail delivery other than door delivery 
(such as a factor that may significantly reduce 
the potential cost savings associated with pro-
viding centralized or curbside delivery); 
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‘‘(B) whether the address is in a registered 
historic district (as that term is defined in sec-
tion 47(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986) is listed on the National Register of 
Historic Places, or is of historic value; and 
‘‘(C) population density and the concentra-
tion of poverty. 
‘‘(5) WAIVER FOR PHYSICAL HARDSHIP.—The 
Postal Service shall establish and maintain a waiver 
program under which, upon application, door deliv-
ery may be continued, or provided, at no cost to the 
applicant in any case in which— 
‘‘(A) centralized or curbside delivery would, 
but for this paragraph, otherwise be the pri-
mary mode of mail delivery; and 
‘‘(B) door delivery is necessary in order to 
avoid causing significant physical hardship to a 
postal patron. 
‘‘(6) LEGACY DOOR DELIVERY SERVICE.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Postal Service 
may continue to provide, for a fee to be paid by 
the addressee, door delivery to an address that 
received door delivery as of January 1, 2013, 
but was converted to a different primary mode 
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of mail delivery as a result of the requirements 
of subsection (d). 
‘‘(B) OFFSET.—The fee shall, when taken 
in the nationwide aggregate, offset the addi-
tional cost to the Postal Service for door deliv-
ery (compared to the cost of the primary mode 
of mail delivery which would otherwise exist for 
such address) as a result of the requirements of 
subsection (d). 
‘‘(C) REQUIREMENTS.—The fee shall be 
subject 
to 
the 
requirements 
of 
section 
3622(d)(1)(B) and the Postmaster General may 
by regulation prescribe the method of the fee’s 
calculation. 
‘‘(d) MODERNIZATION REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) MINIMUM POINTS TO BE CONVERTED.— 
Not later than September 30, 2022, the Postal Serv-
ice shall convert not less than 30,000,000 of the 
door delivery points extant on December 31, 2012, 
to centralized or curbside delivery. 
‘‘(2) CONVERSION
ORDER.—In determining 
which delivery points to convert under paragraph 
(1), postal patrons who voluntarily agree to convert 
their delivery point or points under subsection (c)(3) 
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shall take precedence over any other conversions to 
the greatest extent practicable. 
‘‘(3) FUNDING AND REPAYMENT.—Until Sep-
tember 30, 2022, the Postal Service may withdraw 
funds from the Postal Service Delivery-Point Mod-
ernization Fund to carry out the purposes of this 
section. All savings accrued by the Postal Service 
from conversions under this subsection shall be re-
paid to the Fund on a monthly basis until all funds 
have been repaid. All funds withdrawn under this 
paragraph must be repaid not later than September 
30, 2023. 
‘‘(4) VOUCHER PROGRAM.—The Postal Service 
shall, in accordance with such standards and proce-
dures as the Postal Service shall by regulation pre-
scribe, provide for a voucher program, funded 
through the Postal Service Delivery Point Mod-
ernization Fund, under which, upon application, the 
Postal Service may defray all or any portion of the 
costs associated with conversion from door delivery 
under this section which would otherwise be borne 
by postal patrons. 
‘‘(5) TREATMENT OF EXEMPTION.—Addresses 
receiving door delivery or legacy door delivery as a 
result of paragraph (5) or (6) of subsection (c)— 
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‘‘(A) shall be counted as addresses that re-
ceive the primary mode of mail delivery which 
the address would be subject to if not for the 
applicable exemption; and 
‘‘(B) shall, within 30 days after ceasing to 
meet the requirements of such paragraph (5) or 
(6), as applicable, be converted to the primary 
mode of mail delivery which was otherwise ap-
plicable. 
‘‘(6) ANNUAL
REPORTS.—Not later than 60 
days after the end of each of fiscal years 2013 
through 2023, the Postal Service shall submit to 
Congress and the Inspector General of the Postal 
Service a report on the implementation of this sec-
tion during the most recently completed fiscal year. 
Each such report shall include— 
‘‘(A) the number of residential and busi-
ness addresses that— 
‘‘(i) receive door delivery as of the end 
of the fiscal year preceding the most re-
cently completed fiscal year; 
‘‘(ii) receive door delivery as of the 
end of the most recently completed fiscal 
year; and 
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‘‘(iii) during the most recently com-
pleted fiscal year, were converted from 
door delivery to— 
‘‘(I) centralized delivery points; 
‘‘(II) curbside delivery points; 
and 
‘‘(III) any other primary mode of 
mail delivery, respectively; 
‘‘(B) the estimated cost savings from the 
conversions described in subparagraph (A)(iii); 
‘‘(C) a description of the progress made by 
the Postal Service toward meeting the require-
ments of subsection (c) and paragraph (1) of 
this subsection; and 
‘‘(D) any other information which the 
Postal Service considers appropriate. 
‘‘(e) REVIEW.—Subchapters IV and V shall not apply 
with respect to any action taken by the Postal Service 
under this section.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 36 is amended by adding after the item relat-
ing to section 3691 the following: 
‘‘3692. Delivery-point modernization.’’. 
SEC. 103. EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE UNIVERSAL POSTAL 
SERVICE. 
(a) POSTAL POLICY.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(b) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) The Postal Service shall provide effective and 
regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and 
small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Clause (iii) of 
section 404(d)(2)(A) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(iii) whether such closing or consolidation 
is consistent with the policy of the Government, 
as stated in section 101(b), that the Postal 
Service shall provide effective and regular post-
al services to rural areas, communities, and 
small towns where post offices are not self-sus-
taining;’’. 
(b) GENERAL DUTY.—Paragraph (3) of section 
403(b) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) to ensure that postal patrons throughout 
the Nation will, consistent with reasonable econo-
mies of postal operations, have ready access to es-
sential postal services.’’. 
(c) CONDITIONS.—Clause (i) of section 404(d)(2)(A) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(i) the effect of such closing or consolida-
tion on the community served by such post of-
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fice, including through an analysis of such fac-
tors as— 
‘‘(I) the distance (as measured by 
public roads) to the closest postal retail fa-
cility not proposed for closure or consolida-
tion under such plan; 
‘‘(II) the characteristics of such loca-
tion, including weather and terrain; 
‘‘(III) whether commercial mobile 
service (as defined in section 332 of the 
Communications Act of 1934) and com-
mercial mobile data service (as defined in 
section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Re-
lief and Job Creation Act of 2012) are 
available in at least 80 percent of the total 
geographic area of the ZIP codes served by 
the postal retail facility proposed for clo-
sure or consolidation; and 
‘‘(IV) whether fixed broadband Inter-
net access service is available to households 
in at least 80 percent of such geographic 
area at speeds not less than those suffi-
cient 
for 
service 
to 
be 
considered 
broadband for purposes of the most recent 
report of the Federal Communications 
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Commission under section 706 of the Tele-
communications Act of 1996;’’. 
(d) PRC REVIEW OF DETERMINATIONS TO CLOSE 
OR CONSOLIDATE A POST OFFICE.— 
(1) 
DEADLINE
FOR
REVIEW.—Section 
404(d)(5) is amended by striking ‘‘120 days’’ and 
inserting ‘‘60 days’’. 
(2) EXCLUSION FROM REVIEW.—Section 404(d) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7)(A) The appeals process set forth in paragraph 
(5) shall not apply to a determination of the Postal Service 
to close a post office if there is located, within 2 miles 
of such post office, a qualified contract postal unit. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of this paragraph— 
‘‘(i) the term ‘contract postal unit’ means a 
store or other place of business which— 
‘‘(I) is not owned or operated by the Postal 
Service; and 
‘‘(II) in addition to its usual operations, 
provides postal services to the general public 
under contract with the Postal Service; and 
‘‘(ii) the term ‘qualified contract postal unit’, as 
used in connection with a post office, means a con-
tract postal unit which— 
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‘‘(ii) A decision under clause (i) not to reopen a post 
office may be appealed to the Postal Regulatory Commis-
sion under procedures which the Commission shall by reg-
ulation prescribe. Such procedures shall be based on para-
graph (5), except that, for purposes of this clause, para-
graph (5)(C) shall be applied by substituting ‘in violation 
of section 101(b), leaving postal patrons without effective 
and regular access to postal services’ for ‘unsupported by 
substantial evidence on the record’.’’. 
(3) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made 
by this subsection shall not apply with respect to 
any appeal, notice of which is received by the Postal 
Regulatory Commission before the date of enactment 
of this Act (determined applying the rules set forth 
in section 404(d)(6) of title 39, United States Code). 
(e) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3661 is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d)(1) The Commission shall issue its opinion within 
90 days after the receipt of any proposal (as referred to 
in subsection (b)) concerning— 
‘‘(A) the closing or consolidation of postal retail 
facilities (as that term is defined in section 2(2) of 
the Postal Reform Act of 2013) to a degree that will 
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generally affect service on a nationwide or substan-
tially nationwide basis; or 
‘‘(B) an identical or substantially identical pro-
posal on which the Commission issued an opinion 
within the preceding 5 years. 
‘‘(2) If necessary in order to comply with the 90-day 
requirement under paragraph (1), the Commission may 
apply expedited procedures which the Commission shall by 
regulation prescribe.’’. 
(2) REGULATIONS.—The Postal Regulatory 
Commission shall prescribe any regulations nec-
essary to carry out the amendment made by para-
graph (1) within 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
(3) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by 
this subsection shall apply with respect to any pro-
posal received by the Postal Regulatory Commission 
on or after the earlier of— 
(A) the 90th day after the date of enact-
ment of this Act; or 
(B) the effective date of the regulations 
under paragraph (2). 
(f) RURAL POST OFFICE ANNUAL CLOSURE LIMITA-
TION.—Section 404a(a) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) close, consolidate, or suspend the oper-
ations of more than 5-percent of the number of cur-
rently operating postal retail facilities on January 1, 
of each year that were within the K or L cost ascer-
tainment grouping on January 1, 2012, excluding 
any postal retail facility scheduled for closure and 
ineligible for appeal due to section 404(d)(7)(A) 
shall not count toward the 5 percent limitation.’’. 
(g) ALTERNATE POSTAL ACCESS CHOICE.—Section 
404(d) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(d)(1) The Postal Service, prior to making a deter-
mination under subsection (a)(3) as to the necessity for 
the closing or consolidation of any post office, shall— 
‘‘(A) provide adequate notice of its intention to 
close or consolidate such post office at least 60 days 
prior to the proposed date of such closing or consoli-
dation to postal patrons served by such post office; 
‘‘(B) conduct a nonbinding survey on the pro-
posed closing or consolidation to allow postal patrons 
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served by such post office an opportunity to indicate 
their preference between or among— 
‘‘(i) the closing or consolidation; and 
‘‘(ii) 1 or more alternative options; and 
‘‘(C) ensure that— 
‘‘(i) should the closure or consolidation of 
a postal retail facility be deemed necessary, it 
shall be the policy of the Postal Service to pro-
vide alternative access to postal services to 
those served by the postal retail facility by the 
option chosen by the highest number of survey 
respondents under subparagraph (B)(ii); and 
‘‘(ii) if the Postal Service is unable to pro-
vide alternative access through the option iden-
tified in clause (i), or if that option is cost pro-
hibitive, the Postal Service may provide alter-
native access through a different means. Upon 
selection of an alternative access method other 
than the one identified by clause (i), the Postal 
Service must provide written notice to those pa-
trons served by the postal retail facility identi-
fying and explaining why the option identified 
by clause (i) was not possible or cost prohibi-
tive.’’. 
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SEC. 104. APPLICABILITY OF PROCEDURES RELATING TO 
CLOSURES AND CONSOLIDATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(d) is amended by 
adding after paragraph (7) (as added by section 
103(d)(2)) the following: 
‘‘(8) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘post 
office’ means a post office and any other facility described 
in section 2(2) of the Postal Reform Act of 2013.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—In the case of any post office 
(within the meaning of the amendment made by sub-
section (a)) which, but for such amendment, would not 
otherwise be subject to section 404(d) of title 39, United 
States Code, the amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
be effective with respect to any closure or consolidation, 
the proposed effective date of which occurs on or after the 
60th day following the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 105. ENHANCED REPORTING ON POSTAL SERVICE EF-
FICIENCY. 
Section 3652(a) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding after paragraph (2) the following: 
‘‘(3) which shall provide the overall change in 
Postal Service productivity and the resulting effect 
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(I) in the matter preceding sub-
paragraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (h)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (g)(1)’’; 
(II) by striking subparagraph 
(B); and 
(III) by redesignating subpara-
graphs (C) through (H) as subpara-
graphs (B) through (G), respectively; 
(B) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘Except 
as provided under subsection (f) of this section, 
the’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’; 
(C) by striking subsection (f); and 
(D) by redesignating subsections (g) and 
(h) as subsections (f) and (g), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after section 8L the following: 
‘‘SEC. 8M. SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE INSPEC-
TOR GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES POST-
AL SERVICE. 
‘‘(a) OVERSIGHT
OF POSTAL INSPECTION SERV-
ICE.—In carrying out the duties and responsibilities speci-
fied in this Act, the Inspector General of the United States 
Postal Service (in this section referred to as the ‘Inspector 
General’) shall have oversight responsibility for all activi-
ties of the Postal Inspection Service, including any inter-
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