Community Postal Service Preservation and Cost Savings Act

Community Postal Service Preservation and Cost Savings Act - Requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), in considering whether to close or consolidate a post office, to review and consider whether such post office can be co-located at a retail facility or municipal building within one mile of such post office.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3584 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3584

To authorize the United States Postal Service to co-locate post offices 
 at retail facilities and municipal buildings, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2011

   Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Connolly of Virginia, and Mr. Deutch) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the United States Postal Service to co-locate post offices 
 at retail facilities and municipal buildings, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Postal Service 
Preservation and Cost Savings Act''.

SEC. 2. CO-LOCATION OF POST OFFICES AT RETAIL FACILITIES AND MUNICIPAL 
              BUILDINGS.

    (a) In General.--Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(A)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (iv); 
                and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vi) whether such post office should be 
                        co-located at a retail facility or a municipal 
                        building, consistent with the requirements of 
                        paragraph (7); and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) With respect to any post office being considered for 
        closure or consolidation under this subsection, the Postal 
        Service shall review and consider whether such post office 
        should, in lieu of closure or consolidation, be co-located at a 
        retail facility or municipal building within 1 mile of such 
        post office.''.
    (b) Post Offices Closed or Consolidated Between January 1, 2011, 
and Date of Enactment.--With respect to any post office closed or 
consolidated under section 404 of title 39, United States Code, between 
January 1, 2011, and the date of enactment of this section, the Postal 
Service shall review and consider whether such closed or consolidated 
post office should be reestablished and co-located at a retail facility 
or municipal building within 1 mile of such former post office.
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