Title: POST Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Post Office Security and Transparency Act of 2020 or the POST Act
This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to take specified actions to ensure the availability of mail collection boxes.
Specifically, the bill (1) prohibits the USPS from removing any collection box during the period beginning on this bill's enactment and ending on the later of 180 days after enactment or the date on which the USPS submits a report to Congress providing details of collection box removals and relocations, and (2) requires the USPS to restore or replace any collection box that it removed during the period beginning on June 16, 2020, and ending on the day before this bill's enactment.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4581 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4581

          To ensure the availability of mail collection boxes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2020

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
          To ensure the availability of mail collection boxes.

    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 ``Post Office Security and 
Transparency Act of 2020'' or the ``POST Act''.

SEC. 2. MAIL COLLECTION BOXES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                    (B) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
                    (C) the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the 
                House of Representatives; and
                    (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
                Representatives;
            (2) the term ``collection box'' means a receptacle where a 
        postal customer can deposit mail, including--
                    (A) a blue, freestanding unit;
                    (B) a post-mounted unit; and
                    (C) a chute in a building; and
            (3) the term ``Postal Service'' means the United States 
        Postal Service.
    (b) Moratorium on Collection Box Removal; Restoration of Removed 
Boxes.--
            (1) Moratorium.--The Postal Service may not remove any 
        collection box during the period beginning on the date of 
        enactment of this Act and ending on the later of--
                    (A) the date that is 180 days after the date of 
                enactment of this Act; or
                    (B) the date on which the Postal Service submits 
                the report to Congress under subsection (c).
            (2) Restoration of removed collection boxes.--Not later 
        than 14 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
        Postal Service shall restore or replace any collection box that 
        the Postal Service removed during the period beginning on June 
        16, 2020, and ending on the day before the date of enactment of 
        this Act.
    (c) Report to Congress.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Postal Service shall submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees that includes--
            (1) the metrics used to make decisions on collection box 
        removals during fiscal year 2020;
            (2) the methods used to provide public notice of collection 
        box removals during fiscal year 2020;
            (3) a cost-benefit analysis of collection box removals that 
        occurred during fiscal year 2020;
            (4) a demographic analysis of the individuals who were most 
        likely to use collection boxes during fiscal year 2020; and
            (5) with respect to collection boxes that were relocated 
        during fiscal year 2020 to increase public access to collection 
        boxes--
                    (A) the new and old location of each collection 
                box; and
                    (B) the reason for each relocation, including 
                density metrics used in determining whether and where 
                to relocate the collection box.
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