H.R. 1310 — POSTAL Act

This section establishes the short title of the Act as the “Postal Operations Stay Timely And Local Act” or the “POSTAL Act.”

This section limits the United States Postal Service from closing, consolidating, downgrading, or taking any similar action with respect to a processing and distribution center in any of the 50 States or the District of Columbia if the action would leave that State without any such center. As background, a processing and distribution center is a central mail facility that distributes and dispatches incoming and outgoing mail for a designated service area, provides mail-preparation and dispatch instructions to mailers, and includes sectional center facilities, general mail facilities, and dedicated mail processing facilities without a station or branch.