Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
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Overview
The Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025 aims to enhance security and protect postal workers. It authorizes significant funding for the U.S. Postal Service to install high-security collection boxes and replace traditional mailbox keys with electronic versions. The bill also directs the Department of Justice to appoint assistant U.S. attorneys in each judicial district to coordinate the investigation and prosecution of crimes against the Postal Service, and mandates changes to sentencing guidelines to treat assaults on postal employees similarly to assaults on law enforcement officers.
Key provisions
- Authorizes $1.4 billion annually from 2025-2029 for high-security collection boxes.
- Requires replacement of universal mailbox keys (arrow keys) with electronic versions.
- Directs the Department of Justice to appoint assistant U.S. attorneys in each judicial district to oversee postal crime investigations.
- Amends Title 28, United States Code, to establish coordination between the Attorney General and U.S. attorneys for postal crime prosecutions.
- Sets a deadline for the Attorney General to comply with the new coordination requirements.
- Instructs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend sentencing guidelines to treat assaults on postal employees like assaults on law enforcement officers.
- Expresses Congress’s sense that postal workers should be protected from violence and that postal crimes should be vigorously prosecuted.
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