Committee approves measures directing USPS to assign unique ZIP codes for communities
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The Oversight Committee favorably reported two related ZIP-code bills — HR 672 and HR 3095 — directing the U.S. Postal Service to create single unique ZIP codes for named communities; sponsors said the change resolves mail delivery, emergency response and economic-identity issues. Votes: HR 672 (42-1); HR 3095 (22-20).
The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted to report two bills directing the United States Postal Service to designate single unique ZIP codes for specific communities: HR 672 and HR 3095.
Chairman Comer described HR 672 as correcting misaligned ZIP-code boundaries that cause misdelivered mail and impede economic development. Representative Lynch acknowledged the problem in small towns — citing Scotland, Connecticut — but said he could not support HR 672 in the current form when certain procedural checks (local letters, evidence of a prior USPS petition, and cosponsors from overlapping districts) were not fully satisfied for every locality; despite those objections, HR 672 passed by recorded vote 42-1.
Representative Lauren Boebert, sponsor of HR 3095 and who described community petitions for unique ZIP codes as an oft‑denied process at USPS, said the bill would help roughly 65 communities, including several in Colorado. She said a unique ZIP code affects emergency response, insurance rates, sales-tax allocation and local identity. The committee adopted a substitute amendment and ordered HR 3095 favorably reported; the clerk reported the recorded vote as ayes 22, nays 20.
Committee members entered letters from communities supporting the measures into the record. The chair noted recorded votes were ordered as previously announced and that further proceedings on the question would be postponed when recorded votes were ordered.