S.Amdt. 6085

SA 6085. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Ms. Lummis, and Ms. Hassan)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S.
4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. POSTAL OPERATIONS STAY TIMELY AND LOCAL ACT.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Postal
Operations Stay Timely and Local Act'' or the ``POSTAL Act''.
(b) Limitation on Closing or Consolidating Postal Service
Processing and Distribution Centers in States.--
(1) Definitions.--In this section:
(A) Processing and distribution center.--The term
``processing and distribution center'' means a central mail
facility that--
(i) distributes and dispatches part or all of both incoming
mail and outgoing mail for a designated service area;
(ii) provides instructions on the preparation of collection
mail, dispatch schedules, and sorting plan requirements to
mailers; and
(iii) is a sectional center facility, a general mail
facility, or a dedicated mail processing facility without a
station or branch.
(B) State.--The term ``State'' means a State or the
District of Columbia.
(2) Limitation.--The United States Postal Service may not
close, consolidate, downgrade, or take any other similar
action with respect to a processing and distribution center
in a State if such action would result in there being no
processing and distribution center located in that State.
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