Delivering for America Act

changes in the nature of services that will generally affect service on a nationwide basis;

revisions of service standards;

closures or consolidations of post offices or facilities or reduction of hours;

prohibitions or restrictions on the use of overtime or payment of overtime pay to USPS officers or employees;

changes that would prevent the USPS from meeting its service standards or that would reduce measurements of performance concerning those standards;

changes that would have the effect of delaying, deferring, or curtailing mail, allowing non-delivery to a delivery route, or increasing the volume of undelivered mail;

treating election mail as any class of mail other than first-class mail, regardless of whether this requires overtime pay;

any removal or stoppage of mail sorting machines, other than for routine maintenance;

removing or eliminating any mail collection box available to the public;

enacting any rule, policy, or standard the purpose or effect of which would delay delivery of mail to or from a government entity; and

instituting any hiring freeze.

The USPS shall reverse any initiative or action that is causing delay in processing or delivery or non-delivery of mail.

With regard to election mail specifically, the bill (1) establishes USPS policy to postmark, with imprinted indicia of the date of receipt, all processed election mail; and (2) directs the USPS to ensure that election mail is processed and cleared from any postal facility on the same day it is received. The term election mail means voter registration materials, absentee and other mail-in applications and ballots, and other materials mailed by state or local election officials to individuals registered to vote in the election.

The bill appropriates $25 billion as an additional payment to the Postal Service Fund, of which $15 million shall be transferred to the USPS Office of Inspector General.