Postal Alert and Weather Preparedness Act

This bill requires the Postmaster General, within 1 year, to study whether the Postal Service could use its Informed Delivery platform to send electronic alerts to customers about weather and mail delivery. Alerts could cover mail delays from bad weather or natural disasters, post office closures or reduced hours, and reminders to clear snow, ice, or debris from walkways and mailboxes. The study must look at ways to enroll more customers in Informed Delivery and how messages would be sent, what they would say, and who would get them. The report goes to House and Senate committees, after which the Postal Service may start the program. The bill allows the Postal Service to act notwithstanding the Privacy Act of 1974.

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Sponsors

• Hillary J. Scholten Democrat sponsor
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