Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025
Postal workers and private contractors who transport mail must report any traffic crash resulting in injury or death to the Postal Service within three days. The agency will track these incidents in a central database and publish an annual public report showing crash numbers and safety trends without naming individuals. Contractors who fail to report crashes face financial penalties, temporary suspension, or termination of their mail-hauling contracts.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- The general publicGains access to an annual public report summarizing crash data, trends, and statistics involving mail transportation vehicles.
Who it burdens
- Postal Service mail transportation employeesMust report any traffic crash involving injury or death within three days of occurrence and update reports if injury or death outcomes change.
- Postal Service mail transportation contractorsMust report any traffic crash involving injury or death within three days, submit detailed information, and update reports if conditions change. They also face potential fines, contract suspensions, or contract cancellations for failing to report crashes on time.
- United States Postal ServiceRequired to issue reporting regulations within 90 days, develop standard crash reporting forms and alternative deadline procedures, maintain a continuously updated internal digital crash database, and publish annual public crash reports.
The provisions, in plain language.
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Requires Postal Service employees and contractors transporting mail to report any crash causing injury or death within three days, including crash details and updates if injuries or deaths change.
Requires the Postal Service to maintain a continuously updated internal digital database tracking reported crashes, injuries, and deaths involving vehicles transporting mail.
Requires the Postal Service to publish an annual public report analyzing mail transportation crash data, trends, and statistics without identifying individual drivers or people involved.
Authorizes the Postal Service to penalize contractors who fail to report crashes on time through fines, contract suspensions, or contract cancellations.
Directs the Postmaster General to issue regulations within 90 days to track, monitor, and publicly report traffic crashes, injuries, and deaths involving mail transportation vehicles.
Directs the Postal Service to create a standard crash reporting form and allow deadline extensions for drivers who suffer serious injuries in a crash.
Requires Postal Service employees and contractors transporting mail to report any crash causing injury or death within three days, including crash details and updates if injuries or deaths change.
Requires the Postal Service to maintain a continuously updated internal digital database tracking reported crashes, injuries, and deaths involving vehicles transporting mail.
Requires the Postal Service to publish an annual public report analyzing mail transportation crash data, trends, and statistics without identifying individual drivers or people involved.
Authorizes the Postal Service to penalize contractors who fail to report crashes on time through fines, contract suspensions, or contract cancellations.
How your members of Congress line up
How members voted on Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025.
Recorded roll calls on this bill, most recent first. Open one to see each member's position.
How it moved.
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- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 402 - 16 (Roll no. 55). (text: CR H933-934)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 402 - 16 (Roll no. 55). (text: CR H933-934)
- Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H938-939)
- At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 758.
- Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H933-935)
- Mr. Comer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- Introduced in House
- Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 402 - 16 (Roll no. 55). (text: CR H933-934)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 402 - 16 (Roll no. 55). (text: CR H933-934)
- Introduced in House
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Civic Herald. “Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025 (H.R. 758, 119th Congress).” https://civicherald.app/bills/119-hr-758. Congress.gov record as of Jul 13, 2026.