Care Packages for Our Heroes Act of 2019

Care Packages for Our Heroes Act of 2019

This bill directs the Postal Regulatory Commission to establish rates of postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the United States to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or Diplomatic Post Office address that limit the charge for distance traveled to that of two postal zones.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 400 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 400

   To amend title 39 of the United States Code to direct the Postal 
 Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations to establish rates of 
postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the United States to 
   a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or Diplomatic Post 
                                Office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2019

 Mr. Norcross introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 39 of the United States Code to direct the Postal 
 Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations to establish rates of 
postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the United States to 
   a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or Diplomatic Post 
                                Office.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Care Packages for Our Heroes Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RATES OF POSTAGE FOR PACKAGES SHIPPED BY 
              PRIORITY MAIL FROM THE UNITED STATES TO A FOREIGN ARMY 
              POST OFFICE, FLEET POST OFFICE, OR DIPLOMATIC POST 
              OFFICE.

    Section 3633 of title 39 of the United States Code is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Exemption.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Postal 
Regulatory Commission shall promulgate regulations to establish rates 
of postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the United States 
to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or Diplomatic Post 
Office address whereby a person may not be charged for such packages 
traveling through a zone other than a first zone or a second zone (as 
defined in section 4040 of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, 
respectively).''.
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