§2902 — Title 39 Postal Service | U.S. Code

Summary

The Postal Service must keep good inventory controls and accountability for its property and must plan its current and future workforce so it can judge how people will use buildings and other property. It may create a 5-year management plan that sets goals to cut down on extra or underused buildings, adopt workplace designs and practices that need less space, check leased space for underuse, propose ways to handle extra capacity without hurting mail delivery, and recommend how to protect mail processing. If the Postal Service makes that 5-year plan, it must regularly take an inventory of its real property and publish a report for each site. The report must show when the site was first used; size in square feet and acres; address and location; how much it is used; yearly operating costs; total capital costs; how many postal and contractor workers and what functions are there; how critical the site is to Postal Service work; and estimated capital needs for each of the next 5 years. The law does not require getting a formal appraisal of property.

Title 39, §2902

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(a)The Postal Service—

(1)shall maintain adequate inventory controls and accountability systems for postal property;

(2)shall develop current and future workforce projections so as to have the capacity to assess the needs of the Postal Service workforce regarding the use of property;

(3)may develop a 5-year management template that—

(A)establishes goals and policies that will lead to the reduction of excess property and underutilized property in the inventory of the Postal Service;

(B)adopts workplace practices, configurations, and management techniques that can achieve increased levels of productivity and decrease the need for real property assets;

(C)assesses leased space to identify space that is not fully used or occupied;

(D)develops recommendations on how to address excess capacity at Postal Service facilities without negatively impacting mail delivery; and

(E)develops recommendations on ensuring the security of mail processing operations; and

(4)if the Postal Service develops a template under paragraph (3) shall, as part of that template and on a regular basis—

(A)conduct an inventory of postal property that is real property; and

(B)publish a report that covers each property identified under subparagraph (A), similar to the USPS Owned Facilities Report and the USPS Leased Facilities Report, that includes—

(i)the date on which the Postal Service first occupied the property;

(ii)the size of the property in square footage and acreage;

(iii)the geographical location of the property, including an address and description;

(iv)the extent to which the property is being utilized;

(v)the actual annual operating costs associated with the property;

(vi)the total cost of capital expenditures associated with the property;

(vii)the number of postal employees, contractor employees, and functions housed at the property;

(viii)the extent to which the mission of the Postal Service is dependent on the property; and

(ix)the estimated amount of capital expenditures projected to maintain and operate the property over each of the next 5 years after the date of enactment of this chapter.

(b)Nothing in subsection (a)(4)(B) shall be construed to require the Postal Service to obtain an appraisal of postal property.

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The date of enactment of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(4)(B)(ix), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 114–318, which was approved Dec. 16, 2016.

§2902 Property Management

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