[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8040 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8040

   To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal 
 Service processing and distribution center in Postal Service regions 
  that have failed to meet certain delivery standards, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2024

 Ms. Budzinski (for herself and Mr. Bergman) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                             Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
   To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal 
 Service processing and distribution center in Postal Service regions 
  that have failed to meet certain delivery standards, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OR CONSOLIDATING POSTAL SERVICE 
              PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.

    During any calendar year, the United States Postal Service may not 
close, consolidate, or otherwise move any operations or services from 
any Postal Service processing and distribution center located within 
any Postal Service region that, during anytime within the immediately 
preceding calendar year, failed to meet the Postal Service's fiscal 
year 2023 performance plan target of--
            (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.
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