[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1251 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1251

   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
  States Postal Service may not carry out a change-of-address request 
unless it first receives a signed confirmation that the request was in 
              fact made by or on behalf of the addressee.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2009

  Mr. Weiner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
  States Postal Service may not carry out a change-of-address request 
unless it first receives a signed confirmation that the request was in 
              fact made by or on behalf of the addressee.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARD RELATING TO CERTAIN CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS 
              REQUESTS.

    Section 404 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(f) Effective no later than 3 months after the date of the 
enactment of this subsection, the Postal Service shall implement 
procedures to ensure that no permanent change-of-address request shall 
be carried out unless the Postal Service first receives signed 
confirmation from the addressee (or duly authorized agent thereof) that 
the request was in fact made by (or on behalf of) such addressee.''.
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