St. Louis Postal Accountability and Reform Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8599 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8599 To direct the United States Postal Service to submit a report to Congress on mail and package delivery service performance in the St. Louis region, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 30, 2026 Mr. Bell (for himself, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Bost, and Ms. Budzinski) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the United States Postal Service to submit a report to Congress on mail and package delivery service performance in the St. Louis region, 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 ``St. Louis Postal Accountability and Reform Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The United States Postal Service serves as a critical piece of social and economic infrastructure for millions of residents and businesses in the St. Louis metropolitan area. (2) In August and September of 2025, the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General published two audit reports in response to congressional inquiries from Senators and Representatives from Missouri and Illinois: the Office of Inspector General Audit Report 25-097-R25, ``Efficiency of Operations at the St. Louis Processing and Distribution Center, St. Louis, MO'' and the Office of Inspector General Audit Report 25-100-R25, ``Kansas-Missouri District: Delivery Operations--St. Louis, MO''. (3) The Office of Inspector General found that the Kansas- Missouri District ranked among the lowest-performing postal districts in the country for mail delivery fro