# 119-hr-287: Mobile Post Office Relief Act

119-hr-287, Mobile Post Office Relief Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1] (R-NY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-287
- Congress: 119
- Title: Mobile Post Office Relief Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-09
- Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1] (R-NY)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

This bill would require the Postal Service to **deploy mobile retail units** when a postal retail facility temporarily stops offering in-person services. It creates a duty to station a mobile unit in the geographic area of a qualifying facility within three business days and to provide the same retail functions customers used at that site. - Residents and households: People living at least 0.5 miles from other postal retail sites would regain access to basic postal services within three business days, including buying boxes and packaging and submitting address-change or hold-mail forms. - Post office box holders: Customers with PO boxes at the affected facility would have a way to receive mail addressed to their box from the mobile unit until in-person service returns. - Postal Service and contractor-run locations: The Postal Service must keep the mobile unit in place until the facility no longer meets the law's definition of a covered facility, and a contractor-operated site that stopped services before contract end can trigger deployment.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Mobile post office when service pauses: benefit, low. If enacted, USPS would have to send a mobile unit when a local post office pauses retail service and is at least 0.5 miles from any other. The unit would arrive within three business days after the site qualifies; for sites that already qualify at enactment, within 30 days. It would sell postage an…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4393: DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2570: Maximum Pressure Act
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-287 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/287)

## Related
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-4393: DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4393)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-2570: Maximum Pressure Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2570)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-287 (as of 2025-12-21).